10 largest Russian sawmills boost revenues in 2017
In 2017, the total revenue of the 10 biggest forest products companies in Russia amounted 339.4 billion rubles ($5 [...]
August 30, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Forestry / Sawmilling / Russia
European and North American sawmills registered record profits in H1/2018
Sawlog costs, the largest cost component when manufacturing lumber, have gone up much more slowly than lumber prices in many [...]
August 23, 2018
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Maibec to sell two sawmills
Maibec announced that it concluded a transaction with Groupe Lebel of Rivière-du-Loup for [...]
August 14, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...North America
Swedish sawmills in jeopardy due to tight log supply caused by forest fires
Although consumption of wood raw-material by the Swedish forest industry has risen in 2017 and early 2018, sawmills have [...]
August 7, 2018
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Conifex Timber increases capacity by 50% with acquisition of US South sawmills
Conifex Timber, publicly listed softwood forest products company operating in the Northern Interior region of British Columbia, Canada, has completed [...]
July 16, 2018
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Swedish sawmills exported less lumber to China
The Swedish sawmills exported 3.2 million m3 of sawn and planed lumber during the Jan [...]
July 6, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling
North American lumber giants increase production in 2017
The annual Wood Markets’ “Billion Board Foot Club” list of top global lumber companies showed further gains in production by [...]
May 9, 2018
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Norwegian sawmills to expand lumber capacity
Three Norwegian sawmils have chosen to invest in lumber kilns from Valutec for a total order value of more than [...]
May 9, 2018
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Canadian mill investments in the U.S. South result in high sawmilling margins
With few mill acquisitions, almost all of the production gains arose from improvements at existing mills. Of the top 40 [...]
April 12, 2018
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Austria: stable spruce prices, while sawmills are in short supply
Against the background of a persistently strong overall economy, the Austrian forestry and sawmill industry is struggling with the winter [...]
February 20, 2018
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