Companies in the timber industry

Bergs Timber buys pellet plant in Sweden

Bergs Timber AB has signed an agreement with AB Fogelfors Bruk to acquire all shares in Fågelfors Hyvleri AB [...]

Stora Enso closes sawmill in Finland; plans to boost spruce production

    Stora Enso plans to consolidate the Finnish spruce (whitewood) production to Varkaus sawmill. The plan includes [...]

Norbord to resume operations at High Level OSB mill

    Norbord Inc. reported that its OSB mill in High Level, Alberta was cleared to restart, and [...]

SCA to buy another 10,000 hectares of forest land in Latvia

SCA has signed an agreement to acquire Sundin Mezs SIA from the unlisted Swedish company Livland Skog AB. Sundin Mezs [...]

Conifex sells Fort St. James sawmill to Hampton Lumber

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Hampton Lumber for the sale of [...]

EOS GA reconfirms Sampsa Auvinen

    The 2019 European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) General Assembly elected its new Board of [...]

Sharp decline in revenues for Kronospan in Bulgaria

    Kronospan Bulgaria, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cyprus-based Konikato Holdings, said that its net loss [...]

Swedish wood construction – a key point on the agenda at the first UN-Habitat Assembly

Swedish wood construction was a key point on the agenda at the first UN-Habitat Assembly, which focused on innovations [...]

Closing sawmills in US and falling hardwood prices due to Chinese tariffs

    24% of hardwood produced in the United States is exported to China and 22% is exported [...]

West Fraser to close Chasm lumber mill

    West Fraser announced its intention to permanently close its Chasm lumber mill and eliminate the third [...]