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Prices of wood pellets continue to rise in Germany

In February, the price of wood pellets in Germany increased by 1.7 percent compared to the previous month. Consumers [...]

US sawmills produced more softwood lumber in 2018

    U.S. sawmills produced 32.441 billion board feet (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first [...]

Roseburg completes purchase of MDF plant in Arkansas

    Roseburg Forest Products and PotlatchDeltic Corporation informed the market that they have completed the previously announced [...]

Universal Forest Products acquires Wolverine Wood Products

    Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates has signed an agreement to purchase [...]

EU plywood importers face the risk of oversupply

EU plywood importers report that in the latter part of the year, the plywood market started to turn around and [...]

German woodworking machinery reaches record sales in 2018

    In the five years from 2014 to 2018, the production of German manufacturers of woodworking machinery [...]

Lumber prices in the US keep on rising

Sales of US framing lumber slowed as winter took a toll on consumption across the continent. Snow in the Northwest [...]

International Forest Products buys UK’s Price and Pierce Forest Products

International Forest Products LLC (IFP) is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire all of the equity of Price and [...]

The European plywood industry under pressure

    It’s been a roller coaster 12 months for the European plywood industry according to stockholder [...]

Chinese lumber imports on a downward trend

China's demand for logs and lumber grew in 2018 as compared to 2017, but most of the gains were [...]
February 22, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / China