Keyword: sawmills

Stora Enso sells its sawmills and forest operations in Russia

    Stora Enso has entered into an agreement to divest its two sawmills in Russia. The Company [...]

Sinclar Group Forest Products reduces production at three sawmills due to supply bottlenecks

Sinclar Group Forest Products Ltd. will temporarily reduce manufacturing output at its sawmill operations in Vanderhoof, Fort St. James and [...]

Canfor reduces operating schedules for Western Canadian sawmills

Canfor Corporation will implement reduced operating schedules at its Western Canadian sawmills effective April 4, 2022 due to the cumulative [...]

West Fraser to adopt three day work week at B.C. sawmills

West Fraser is temporarily rolling back its operating schedule at lumber mills across B.C., impacting more than 700 employees [...]

Sweden’s sawmills plan record investments in production capacity expansions

    Swedish sawmills have made record results in 2021 and there are plans for record investments and [...]

Czech sawmills expect stabilization in both lumber sales and prices

    The year 2021 was a year of unexpected extremes for the Czech sawmills. Especially in the [...]
February 8, 2022 Forestry / Industry Prices / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Western Forest Products to temporarily close one of its sawmills due to log shortage

Western Forest Products is considering curtailing operations at its Chemainus sawmill starting next week due to a log shortage.  [...]

Northern Europe sawmills have some of the lowest sawlog prices in the world

    Record-high lumber prices in North America and Europe have moved both demand and sawlog values [...]

Austrian demand for softwood sawlogs goes up in January 2022

    Austria's sawmills are currently still largely sufficiently stocked with needle saw logs. Now that production [...]

Record prices of logs hit Poland’s sawmills

    Industry organizations and entrepreneurs in Poland are sounding the alarm over log prices, which are currently [...]