Belarus timber flows to EU circumventing sanctions via Central Asia
Belarus is circumventing EU sanctions by exporting its timber to EU countries using false documents claiming that the wood comes [...]
December 26, 2022
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Europe / Russia
Wood-based panel prices rise sharply across Asia due to rising raw material costs
Soaring adhesive prices are impacting wooden board costs. Supply of raw materials of adhesive such as [...]
December 15, 2021
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Wood-based Panels / Asia & Middle East
China: Largest continuous press production line in Asia starts production
On November 23, 2019, the signing ceremony of Shouguang Luli Wood Industry Co., Ltd. with an annual output of 600 [...]
December 11, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood-based Panels / Woodworking Machinery / China / Europe
Pulp and paper markets in Asia slow down as global economy cools
From January to August 2019, production of paper products and pulp recorded mixed trends across selected markets. Whereas production increased [...]
December 9, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East
Global wood pellets demand expected to be driven by Asia in the next 10 years
Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]
July 29, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East / Europe
Accsys seeks business expansion for acetylated wood in Asia
Technologies PLC has announced that its subsidiary, Tricoya Technologies Limited , has now entered into an agreement with Petronas Chemicals Group [...]
May 15, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Europe
Booming demand in Asia to drive wood pellets production in the next decade
Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat [...]
September 4, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East / Europe
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
Rising wood logs prices in Africa and SE Asia, says the World Bank
The World Bank reconsidered forecast for logs and sawnwood in the recently updated Commodity Markets Outlook. [...]
May 25, 2018
Market Analysis / Wood Industry Prices / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East
Demand for wood pellets in Asia has reached record-highs in 2017
Asia’s demand for biomass is growing rapidly. Wood pellet imports into South Korea and Japan have grown exponentially in [...]
May 21, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
