EU plywood import prices on the rise due to booming demand
Against this background, European plywood importers variously describe demand ranging from ‘stable and sound’ and ‘at [...]
June 25, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Industry Prices / Wood-based Panels / Europe
EU tropical logs imports have pulled through last year’s downturn
After a downturn in 2017, EU imports of tropical logs recovered a little ground at the start of 2018. Imports [...]
June 11, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
EU imports of tropical sawnwood went down during Q1/2018
EU imports of tropical sawn wood decreased 6% to 166,100 MT in the first quarter of 2018. This was [...]
June 6, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East / Europe / South America
The European glulam market challenging for suppliers
Anecdotal reports indicate that the glulam sector in Europe struggled with over-supply and low margins in the 2013 to [...]
May 25, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Wood Construction / Europe
EU furniture sector productivity might increase due to advanced computer-controlled manufacturing
Increasingly advanced computer-controlled and automated manufacturing has also benefited European producers, boosting their productivity, cutting [...]
May 2, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Furniture / Europe
The EU wooden furniture manufacturers show great interest to “source locally”
There seems to be a growing preference in the EU market to ‘source local’, particularly in the design and specifier [...]
April 27, 2018
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Wood Furniture / Europe
EU domestic furniture sector sales recovers in 2017
The biggest shift in the EU furniture sector in recent years has come in the degree of market self-sufficiency [...]
April 24, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Furniture / Europe
EU imports of African sawnwood have fallen dramatically
The most notable trend in the supply of sawn hardwood to the EU in 2017 was the sharp fall in [...]
April 18, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East / Europe / South America
Supply problems affect the EU tropical imports
In practice, the recent decline in tropical imports into the EU is better seen as a region-wide phenomenon driven [...]
April 17, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
EU plywood associations ask for higher quality standards
Timber trade associations in two leading EU importing countries have recently been pushing forward plywood quality, performance and legality initiatives [...]
March 29, 2018
Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...Europe
