Keyword: China

Global forest industry trends during the first quarter of 2018

The Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) jumped 5.1% q-o-q in the 1Q/18 to reach its highest [...]

Chinese imports of US hardwood reach record levels in Q1/2018

Amidst the trade dispute between China and the US, the hardwood exports to Sea and Greater China  rallied [...]

Furniture exports from Germany to the US, Canada and China on the rise in Q1/2018

The furniture exports from Germany increased by 1%, to approximately EUR 2.7 billion during the first quarter of 2018 [...]

China increases tropical logs & sawnwood imports

China’s log imports from the USA in the first three months of 2018 totalled 1.41 million cubic metres [...]

Dieffenbacher THDF plant to deliver THDF plant for Guangxi Lelin Forestry

Dieffenbacher will build a state-of-the-art THDF plant for Guangxi Lelin Forestry Development Co. Ltd. near Nanning in [...]

Chinese softwood lumber and logs imports tripled during the last 10 years

Softwood logs and softwood lumber imports to China have more than tripled in ten years with lumber volumes surpassing logs [...]
June 4, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / China

Norwegian Ekornes receives $630m cash bid from Chinese Qumei

China’s Qumei Home Furnishing Group on the 22nd of May made an all-cash bid for Norway’s Ekornes [...]

Wood products trade between China and the US is on a downward trend

    According to the data from China’s Customs the value of wood products trade between China [...]

Dieffenbacher sends the first CPS+ to China

For the fourth time in four years, Chinese straw-based particleboard specialist Wanhua Ecoboard has ordered a straw-based particleboard [...]

Imports of sawnwood into China grew by 5% during Q1/2018

China’s sawnwood imports reached 8.29 million cubic metres in the first three months of 2018, up five per [...]