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 [...]
January 13, 2022
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Latvian timber market is experiencing a sharp drop in wood prices
Currently, the Latvian timber market is experiencing a fall in the price of softwood roundwood, which has fallen by as [...]
November 10, 2021
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Latvia’s softwood sawlog prices reach unprecedented levels
Latvia's timber market is currently experiencing rising prices for roundwood, which have been affected by [...]
October 7, 2021
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Rettenmeier plans large investment in Latvia
With an investment program, Rettenmeier wants to expand its Latvian location in Incukalns significantly over the next few years and [...]
September 30, 2021
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Latvia’s timber industry concerned about trade with Belarus
Latvian timber industry has recently raised alarm that the Latvian banks are being overly cautious regarding [...]
September 20, 2021
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No reason to expect that skyrocketing timber prices in Latvia will return to pre-pandemic levels
In the Latvian timber industry, the sharp rise in prices was caused by an unpredictably high [...]
September 15, 2021
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There is a bubble in Latvia’s timber market that will burst sooner or later
Currently, the Latvian lumber market is experiencing a significant price increase or bubble, which will sooner [...]
June 28, 2021
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New opportunities for Latvian timber exports to the US
At the beginning of February, a large vessel with Latvian timber products to be exported to the USA was loaded [...]
February 25, 2021
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Low impact of corona crisis on the Latvian sawmill industry
Log supply in Latvia hasn't suffered any changes since the 2nd quarter of 2020. Latvian State Forests (which owns [...]
October 27, 2020
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SCA to acquire more forest land in the Baltics
SCA has signed an agreement to acquire forest land in Latvia. The acquisition comprises an area of 19,150 hectares [...]
September 24, 2020
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