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Prices for roundwood in Estonia significantly higher than in 2017

    In June 2018, the prices for roundwood in Estonia are significantly higher as compared to the [...]

Brazilian wood-based products’ value went 23% up in June

In June 2018 the total value of Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) increased 23% compared [...]

Tropical sawnwood rising its share on the European market

Recent reports on European economic and construction sector health and outlook make for almost exclusively positive reading. After the EU [...]

Softwood logs exports from Europe to China excedeed those of softwood lumber

      Due to a massive boost of exports from France, total European softwood logs deliveries [...]

Lumber prices in the US went down at the beginning of August

Framing lumber prices in US spiraled downward, as mills searched for trading levels to little avail. Deep double-digit cuts [...]

Sonae Arauco plans to build new particleboard plant at its site in Germany

Sonae Arauco decided to invest in a new state-of-the-art particleboard plant at the company’s Beeskow site [...]

China’s wood companies face difficulties in the US market

    Data from China Customs shows that in 2017 total value of China’s wood products trade [...]

EGGER Group reports record results

    The EGGER Group again set new records in its annual results for 2017/2018.   [...]

Swedish sawmills in jeopardy due to tight log supply caused by forest fires

Although consumption of wood raw-material by the Swedish forest industry has risen in 2017 and early 2018, sawmills have [...]

Arauco to make its largest investment in its history

Arauco’s Board of Directors recently approved the MAPA project (Spanish acronym for Modernization and Extension of Arauco Mill), a [...]