Metsä to start production at its birch plywood mill in Pärnu, Estonia
Metsä Wood officially started up its birch plywood mill in Pärnu, Estonia. Currently there are around 65 blue-collars [...]
September 3, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe
Weyerhaeuser’s CEO to resign in 2019
Weyerhaeuser announced that its current CEO Doyle R. Simons has elected to retire, and its board of directors has appointed [...]
September 3, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America
Asian timber operators in Africa better placed than their European counter-parts
A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away [...]
September 3, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East / China / Europe
Chinese wood-based panels manufacturers to cease production due to environmental requirements
According to the Chinese government’s environmental policy called the “Three-Year Plan on Defending the Blue Sky” industrial enterprises [...]
August 31, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Market Analysis / ...Wood-based Panels / China
10 largest Russian sawmills boost revenues in 2017
In 2017, the total revenue of the 10 biggest forest products companies in Russia amounted 339.4 billion rubles ($5 [...]
August 30, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Forestry / Sawmilling / Russia
Japan’s Sumitomo buys interest in US housing company
Sumitomo Forestry has acquired a 60% equity interest in the United States Mark III Properties. The [...]
August 30, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Wood Construction / ...Asia & Middle East / North America
Drax completes conversion of 4th coal unit to biomass
Drax has switched on its fourth biomass generating unit—taking the power station in North Yorkshire [...]
August 30, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood Energy / Europe
European and North American sawmills registered record profits in H1/2018
Sawlog costs, the largest cost component when manufacturing lumber, have gone up much more slowly than lumber prices in many [...]
August 23, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling
Top wood pellets producers in Russia
Analysts estimate that currently 10 large wood pellet producers manufacture more than 60 percent of total Russian wood pellet production [...]
August 21, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood Energy / Russia
New wood pellet plant in Vietnam
Biomass Fuel Vietnam Co placed an order with Hekotek for a new complete plant of wooden pellets. According the announcement [...]
August 21, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Wood Energy / ...Asia & Middle East
