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US dismisses new investigation on China plywood duties

On February 15, four US plywood producers filed a petition at the US Department of Commerce complaining about the plywood [...]

Roundwood prices in Estonia on an upward trend

Roundwood prices in Estonia have risen significantly in February 2018, from December 2017. In January 2018, the price continued to [...]

Bergs Timber agrees buy Norvik’s timber operations in Baltics and UK

Bergs Timber signed an agreement with Bergs Timber’s main owner, Norvik, Norway, acquiring a number of companies within the [...]

European Commission decides to further investigate IKEA’s potential tax fraud in the Netherlands

The European Commission published on the 27th of March the nonconfidential version of its decision to open a formal investigation [...]

Siempelkamp to deliver new particleboard plant for VMG in Lithuania

Kalipedos Madiena (VMG) orders the complete plant with Siempelkamp in Krefeld, Germany. The new plant, which will be located in [...]

Roundwood demand and prices in Finland go up

Thanks to the positive economic situation and investments, roundwood use by the Finnish forest industry will break the 70 million [...]

EU domestic furniture sector sales recovers in 2017

The biggest shift in the EU furniture sector in recent years has come in the degree of market self-sufficiency [...]

Russia imposes temporary restrictions on veneer logs exports

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia decided to impose temporary restrictions on the export of veneer logs for [...]

Tariffs imposed by Trump administration affect the Chinese wood products exports

The US Trade Representative has issued a list of products to which a 25% tariffs will be collected. The list [...]

Parquet markets in Europe on positive growth

The Board of Directors of the European Federation of the Parquet Industry met on 4 April 2018 and discussed amongst [...]