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Austria: Prices for spruce sawlogs on the rise

A storm and snowfall at the beginning of February led to isolated minor damage in some regions, and the volumes [...]

Global plywood market to rise sharply in the next ten years

The global plywood market is valued at US$85.5bn as of 2023. The market is expected to grow at [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends

Russian loggers are experiencing additional difficulties with the sale of sawlogs

Russian sawmills in January tried their best to process their own logs, and to reduce purchases from the open market [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends / Market Analysis

New European Deforestation Regulation challenges the Malaysian timber industry

The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) is indeed focusing on efforts to prepare the timber industry for future challenges, mainly [...]
March 2, 2023 Latest Trends

German Pellets bankruptcy goes to court

Seven years after the insolvency world's largest pellet producer German Pellets, its former managing director is coming to court [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Poland’s wood industry in crisis due to lack of orders

Poland's wood industry was still coping with problems at the beginning of last year. It has only gotten worse [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Egger to invest more than $42 million to increase production capabilities and capacity

Austrian wood-based materials manufacturer Egger Wood Products has started production on a third lamination line at its Lexington, N [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Middle East: Boom in construction sector to fuel demand for wood products

The boom in the Middle East construction and building sectors is fueling the growth of the wood and woodworking machinery [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Africa: Few new timber orders from China

With the end of the ‘lockdowns’ in China and with the Lunar New Year holidays over producers had anticipated an [...]
March 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Reduced supply from New Zealand increase price pressure for logs in China

Log demand in China has not increased as much as expected after the Lunar New Year, but there will be [...]
February 28, 2023 Latest Trends / Wood Industry Prices