Boom in Austrian lumber prices now reflected in the payment to forest owners
According to official statistics, Austria's timber prices are now rising. Austrian sawmills are in full swing and they sell [...]
June 28, 2021
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Warning in US against European lumber
The North Carolina Building Code Council warns of potentially “catastrophic” failures caused by European lumber. It remains to be seen [...]
June 23, 2021
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Central Europe: Sawmills struggling to get logs; historical price increases
Within the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) softwood lumber prices in June are still on the rise due to [...]
June 23, 2021
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US lumber enters a bear market with prices down 20% from peak
US lumber prices are falling—fast. On Tuesday, the price per thousand board feet fell $114 [...]
June 22, 2021
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Finland’s sawmills benefit from lumber boom
The outlook for the Finnish forest industry is quite positive, Danske Bank's economic information estimated [...]
June 22, 2021
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US lumber prices are falling fast
US lumber prices are falling back to Earth. Prices have dropped from record highs, spurred by the economic reopening and [...]
June 21, 2021
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Sawmill orders shrinking a sign that lumber prices might fall soon
As May rolled into June and following the dual long weekends of Victoria Day in Canada and Memorial Day in [...]
June 15, 2021
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Shortages of wood raw material are widespread in US
More than 90% of US homebuilders report a shortage of lumber, OSB, and appliances. The National [...]
June 14, 2021
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Japan wood industry in danger due to global timber shortage
A global shortage of wood and soaring prices are threatening Japan’s lumber industry and has business operators fearing serious [...]
June 10, 2021
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Swedish Bergkvist Siljan plans to increase sawn wood production by 60%
The Environmental Impact Assessment Delegation has granted the sawmill group Bergkvist Siljan permission to increase the [...]
June 8, 2021
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