Dramatic decline in China’s softwood log imports in H1/2022
China’s log imports in the first half of 2022 totaled 22.38 million cubic meters valued at US$4 [...]
August 17, 2022
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / North America / Russia / South America
Russian energy roulette threatens the German forest industry
Energy prices have risen sharply since Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine in February of this year. The [...]
August 17, 2022
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe / Russia
Softwood log prices in Estonia start to fall from absolute records
The large-scale war started by Russia in Ukraine and the creation of an energy crisis [...]
August 17, 2022
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US DoC rules Vietnam circumvented hardwood plywood duties
The Department of Commerce has ruled that hardwood plywood assembled and exported from Vietnam used Chinese [...]
August 17, 2022
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N. American lumber futures bounce back as Canada cuts output
West Fraser shutters 2.5% of its North America capacity Lumber prices [...]
August 16, 2022
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Hasslacher Group to take over Holzbau Hofer
The company Holzbau Hofer, which operates in Austria and throughout Europe, was founded in 1984 by [...]
August 16, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / Europe
U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on Russian wood products
Starting from July 27, the United States imposed a 35% tariff on 570 items of goods imported from Russia, including [...]
August 16, 2022
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Wood-pellet market booms amid Ukraine war
The wood-pellet market is on fire. War has cut off the supply of compressed-wood [...]
August 16, 2022
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B.C.’s big 3 lumber giants still making good profits
B.C.’s big three forestry giants had lumber and other wood product sales of $6 [...]
August 16, 2022
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Roundwood production in EU could decrease sharply due to biodiversity strategy
If less wood is harvested in European forests to protect biodiversity, this will lead to global shifts in wood production [...]
August 16, 2022
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