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West Fraser to close Chasm lumber mill

    West Fraser announced its intention to permanently close its Chasm lumber mill and eliminate the third [...]

More than 600 US companies want to urge Trump to end tariffs of Chinese products

    Companies across a wide array of industries have almost uniformly opposed the Trump administration's plan [...]

Global trade of softwood lumber reaches the second highest level in history

    Global trade of softwood lumber reached 120 million m3 in 2018, the second highest level on [...]

Stocks of logs at Chinese ports starting to fall

Total softwood log stocks across China have reduced slightly from last month to around 3.8 million m3. Daily uplift [...]

China: Latest prices for imported logs and sawnwood

    The report below contains the latest prices of logs and sawnwood from main timber markets in [...]

Seasonal price decrease for German wood pellets

As well as in May, in June the price of wood pellets in Germany fell from the previous month by [...]

Investments and business outlook of the Russian sawmilling industry

    The Russian sawmilling industry is characterized by fragmentation, a division between large export-oriented companies and [...]

Former closed sawmill in BC converts to wood pellets

    A sawmill in McBride, B.C., that shutdown 13 years ago is getting a new life [...]

Louisiana-Pacific to close OSB mill in BC

    Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) is the latest company to join a growing list of lumber producers [...]

Tropical timber imports to benefit from EU deforestation policies

Increasingly the twin concepts of “zero deforestation” and “embodied deforestation” lie at the heart of European policy making, both in [...]