Companies in the timber industry

B.C. lumber producers on a roller-coaster ride due to price fluctuations

BC Lumber producers are accustomed to boom and bust cycles, but the past two years have been surprisingly volatile for [...]

European wood processing industry: Volatility remains in 2022, but without extremes

    The turbulent year 2021 with its price records, logistics bottlenecks and the trend reversal in the [...]

Latvia: Exports of wood products hit record value due to booming prices

The Latvian timber industry was the sector with the fastest growth in export value last year, recovering from a difficult [...]

Binderholz completes BSW Timber acquisition

The purchase makes it Europe’s largest company in the sawmill and solid wood processing 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 [...]

China to update phytosanitary requirements for pine logs and lumber imports

China’s General Administration of Customs released new phytosanitary requirements for pine logs and lumber from 7 countries (United States [...]

Schilliger Holz to build a new CLT production line

  The construction of wooden buildings, especially multi-storey, is booming in France and around the world. As a [...]

B.C. forestry giants invested $6billion in foreign assets in 2021

    Canfor Corporation has ended 2021 with another investment outside of B.C. – bringing the total investment [...]