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Vietnam’s forest products exports on track to generate revenue of US$11.0B in 2019

Robust signs since the outset of the year have made Vietnam's timber and forestry sector confident of gaining 11 [...]

Martinsons to upgrade its CLT and glulam production

Martinsons announced a SEK 120 million (EUR 11.1 million) investment in its sawmill plants in Bygdsiljum and Kroksjön [...]

Canfor backs Jim Pattison’s billion-dollar takeover bid

  A special committee of Canfor’s board has approved an almost $1-billion offer from a Jim Pattison [...]

New Zealand’s radiata pine has market potential in Vietnam

New Zealand’s Sequal Holdings Ltd. and Vietnam’s VinaFor Saigon have inked a distribution agreement, with the former to [...]
November 11, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

Cheap European logs flood the Chinese market

While log supply from North and South America in China has virtually dried up the volume from Europe continues to [...]

Weak market for European birch timber in China

Some Chinese merchants said that this year, due to the short-term factors such as the downturn in the property [...]

The United States supports Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo signed an agreement in Washington on [...]

Segezha Group to start production at its new CLT plant in September 2020

Segezha Group timber industry holding will build a plant on the basis of Sokolsky DOK to produce engineering material new [...]

Romania to harvest 9.5 million m3 of roundwood in 2020

The Romanian national forest administration Regia Nationala a Padurilor (Romsilva) is planning to harvest 9.5m m³ of roundwood in [...]

B.C. forestry crisis: 25% fall in export sales and a $3.4 billion loss

    The crisis in British Columbia’s forestry sector that saw more than 20 sawmills close or [...]