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Impact of COVID-19 on the EU tropical wood market

    The impact of COVID-19 on imports of tropical wood and wood furniture on individual EU27 [...]

Sharp fall in Estonian roundwood prices

    Under the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the price pressure of the bark beetle [...]

Lumber suppliers to the US market struggle to supply

The price of lumber in the Chicago futures market is at an all-time high. The demand for lumber is [...]

Shrinking MDF market in China

According to Chinese market insiders, the weakness of the downstream furniture market in China this year has led to a [...]

Timber supply for 2020 and 2021 under threat in Ireland

    Coillte has warned the Government that it could run out of timber to sell off before [...]

Stora Enso invests in a new CLT production line in Czech Republic

Stora Enso has decided to invest approximately EUR 79 million in a new production line for cross laminated timber (CLT [...]

Fears of a second wave of bark beetles in Sweden after dry August

The Swedish Forest Agency and the forestry have been monitoring the swarms of spruce bark beetles, and their observations show [...]
September 14, 2020 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

UPM builds a wood processing plant in Germany

Construction of a timber processing plant in Leuna, Germany, will start before the end of the third quarter of 2020 [...]

Russia: ULK Group’s new mega sawmill equipped with Nordic technology

    Russia’s ULK Group is investing about Euro 400 million in one of the country’s [...]

Vietnamese forestry products exports up 10.3% in Jan.-Aug. 2020

Vietnam earned 7.83 billion USD from exporting forestry products in the first eight months of 2020, up 10.3 [...]