Market Analysis

UK: Stability returns to timber supply chain

    The UK’s leading timber industry representative body – the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) – says the industry [...]

2022 North American lumber markets outlook

    It’s been a wild ride for wood products, particularly lumber, over the past two years [...]

Germany’s sawmill industry expects market volatility to continue in 2022

2021 was a year of change in many ways. Although the pandemic remained with its effects on large parts of [...]

Latest mega takeover in the European sawmilling industry to be completed in Q1/2022

      The latest mega takeover in the European sawmilling industry – Mayr-Melnhof Holz (MMH) Holding [...]

Record prices of logs hit Poland’s sawmills

    Industry organizations and entrepreneurs in Poland are sounding the alarm over log prices, which are currently [...]

Softwood timber surplus in the US South expected to fall, prices likely to increase

The large softwood timber surplus in the US South is likely to diminish over the next decade, resulting in regional [...]

North American lumber prices are soaring to levels not seen in seven months

    North American lumber prices are soaring to levels not seen in seven months as the lingering [...]

Austrian spruce log prices stable in December 2021

    The Austrian sawmill industry was adequately stocked with softwood logs in DecemberAn upturn in demand, which [...]

Increased export duties for Russian lumber are now in effect

The higher duty rate for exports of certain kinds of lumber previously announced by the Russian government went into effect [...]

China’s demand for New Zealand logs uncertain; prices stable in December

The At Wharf Gate (AWG) prices for New Zwealand exported logs remained unchanged in December, although there were reported some [...]