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European tropical logs and sawnood on recover this year

    After a downturn in 2017, the quantity of EU imports of tropical logs recovered a little [...]

Chinese sawnwood imports and prices up sharply this year

China’s sawnwood imports in the first quarter of 2018 totalled 8.28 million cubic metres valued at US$2 [...]

Segezha Group starts production at new wood pellet plant in Russia

Segezha Group starts production of the wood pellets at the company’s Sokol Timber Company in Russia. According to the [...]

Production of wood pellets keeps growing in European countries

With a production of about 14.3 MMT in 2017, about fifty percent of global production, the EU is the [...]
September 24, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Oak lumber restrictions lifted in Croatia

The transport restrictions for oak wood in Croatia which have the purpose of preventing the propagation of the oak lace [...]
September 24, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

Europe might profit from the US-China trade war

The additional tariffs of the US government under President Donald Trump slow the Chinese growth by 0.1 to 0 [...]

European tropical imports disappointing this year

EU imports of tropical wood products have been subdued so far in 2018 with little sign yet of any rebound [...]

Vietnamese timber industry to benefit from the US-China trade war

  The trade war between the U.S. and China officially started on 6 July after the U.S [...]

Trends and current developments of the German sawmill industry

The German sawmill industry closed 2017 with a positive result. Above all the good 4th quarter dominated the annual result [...]

European forests ravaged by a bark beetle infestation

A bark beetle infestation is currently ravaging forests in Central and some Northern European countries. Reports from Germany, The Czech [...]
September 21, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe