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Stora Enso lowers expectations for 2023 due to worsening market outlook

Due to materially lower earnings forecasts for the full year results 2023, Stora Enso’s new guidance is that the [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

Austria: Log prices fall in April

The sluggish sales of sawn timber in Austria are slowly being felt in the roundwood market as well. Especially in [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

Swiss Krono plans OSB capacities expansion and shifts investment priorities to W. Europe

After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the wood-based materials manufacturer Swiss Krono is represented at this [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

Thebault Group to invest EUR 100 million in France’s first LVL plant

The Thebault Group, a French plywood producer, announces the establishment of the first LVL (Laminated Veneer Lumber) manufacturing facility in [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

EU Parliament approves deforestation regulation

The European Parliament approved on April 19 the deforestation regulation that requires mandatory due diligence from operators and traders selling [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

Brazilian timber prices rising across the board

As of the end of February, the prices of Brazilian timber have risen across the board. Prices of Brazilian timber [...]
April 21, 2023 Latest Trends

HS Timber sells Sebes sawmill in Romania to Ziegler Group

Austrian company HS Timber Group (previously known as Schweighofer) announced that it reached an agreement to sell its sawmill HS [...]
April 20, 2023 Latest Trends

Spruce log prices mostly decreasing in Germany

The German producer price indices for spruce developed mostly downwards in February 2023. On average, the index for log wood [...]
April 20, 2023 Latest Trends

Holmen to increase capacity at Iggesund sawmill

Holmen Wood Products AB has commissioned the construction companies Veidekke and Brinkab to expand the Iggesund sawmill with a new [...]
April 20, 2023 Latest Trends

Jeld-Wen to sell its Australasia business for US$461 million

Jeld-Wen Holding, has entered into a definitive sale agreement with Platinum Equity to sell 100% of the business for [...]
April 20, 2023 Latest Trends