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Lumber prices in US expected to fall this autumn

    Lumber prices notched a record on Thursday but are likely to fall back to earth.  [...]

Vietnam to reach export target for timber and wooden products

Experts believe Vietnam this year will reach its export target for timber and wooden products at 12 billion USD, despite [...]

Sweden’s forest companies receive lower credit ratings

    One of Sweden's largest forest industry groups has its credit rating lowered by the credit [...]

Prices of imported lumber in September 2020 at various Chinese timber markets

The tables above contain the latest price data of different imported lumber assortments at several Chinese markets.    [...]

Positive trends in the global softwood lumber markets

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and its bad consequences on trade, there are more positive signals to notice in the [...]

Finnish forest industry exports drop 18% in H1/2020

In the first half year the exports value of the Finnish forest industry products totalled in real terms EUR 5 [...]

EGGER laminates its first particleboard panel at its new plant in Lexington

  EGGER announced it has laminated its first particleboard panel at its new manufacturing facility in Lexington, North Carolina [...]

Sawlog prices fall in most regions of the world in Q2/2020

Sawlog prices fell in most of the major regions of the world in the 2Q/20. A strengthening US dollar [...]

Tschopp Holzindustrie to invest in a new sawmill in Switzerland

    Tschopp Holzindustrie to build a new sawmill in Switzerland. This will replace the existing plant, which [...]

Swedish sawmills to take advantage of opportunities in the US market

Danske Bank's head of the forestry and agriculture business area, Johan Freij, summarizes the situation in the timber market [...]