Keyword: panel

UK Q1/2021 timber imports highest in more than a decade

    Supply expected to remain tight throughout 2021.    The volume of UK timber [...]

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 [...]

Considerable rise in UK timber and panel imports

The recovery in UK import volume seen in the second half of 2020 continued in January 2021 with timber and [...]

Perfect storm has led to lumber, panel prices skyrocketing in North America

    John Gunkelman is the owner of Fargo’s Dakota Construction and is the immediate past president [...]

The European Panel Federation to criticize VOC requirements introduced in Germany

The European Wood-based Panel Federation (EPF) raises the alarm against the current threat to European harmonisation and progress posed [...]

Sharp fall in US lumber prices

    Mills idled by wildfires in Western Canada and expectations that more market- or resource-related shutdowns [...]

Arauco completes acquisition of Masisa’s Mexican panel mills

An USD 160 million acquisition agreement of two industrial plants in Mexico was established by Arauco to Masisa, following the [...]

US softwood lumber prices continue to move up

Framing lumber prices in the US carried some upward momentum in mid-November, and the Random Lengths Framing Lumber Composite [...]

US softwood lumber and panel prices stabilize at the beginning of September

    US framing lumber traders who had anticipated a stronger pace of sales coming out of the [...]

US softwood lumber prices pick up in mid-August

Framing lumber trading in US hit its fastest stride in more than two months, and the market finished the week [...]