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Stora Enso wants to acquire forest assets from Bergvik Skog AB

Shareholders representing 98% of the owners in Bergvik Skog AB, a Swedish forest holding company, have agreed to initiate discussions [...]

French competition authority fines leading flooring producers for price fixing

    The French competition authority (The Autorité) has imposed sanctions totalling €302 million on the three leading [...]

Italian woodworking technology performs well this year

    The Italian woodworking technology has registered very good results for the second quarter of 2017, along [...]

Canfor might build a sawmill in US Southeast

Canfor is evaluating a 250 mmbf greenfield sawmill in the US Southeast region and also announced a new organic capital [...]

Masisa to sell Brazil wood-based panel operations plant to Arauco

    Masisa announced the sale of its manufacturing operations in Brazil to Arauco (Chile), for USD 102 [...]

Södra’s completes investment in Långasjö sawmill

    Södra’s investment of SEK 100 million in Långasjö has now been completed. The [...]

Bergs Timber to upgrade Vimmerby sawmill

Bergs Timber has recently announced it will invest SEK 27.5mn in reconstructing the sawline at the sawmill in Vimmerby [...]

Metsä Wood to build new Kerto LVL line in Finland

    Metsä Wood is considering the construction of a new, 65,000 m3 Kerto LVL line to [...]

Interfor to upgrade Meldrim mill

    Interfor Corp. announced last month that it plans to invest $16.5 million to upgrade its [...]

Finnish softwood sawn timber and plywood production up by almost 6%

Finnish softwood sawn timber production in January-September increased by 5.9% compared to the year ago period and totalled [...]
November 16, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe