Keyword: timber

Finnish sawn timber production forecast to rise steady in 2017

    Finland’s sawn timber production is projected to reach 12.4 million m3 in 2017 (compared [...]
September 27, 2017 Market Analysis / Sawmilling / ...Europe

Overview of the UK hardwood import market share

A UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) conference on the UK hardwood market sponsored by The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC [...]
March 27, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

The tallest timber building in the world (80m) to be build in Norway

Mjøstårnet is the name of the next key project in timber construction. The over 80m high building arises [...]
February 15, 2017 Latest Trends / Wood Construction / ...Europe

Hadleigh Timber in UK has bought Timbmet

Timbmet, the timber supplier and processor, has been recently acquired by Hadleigh Timber, owner of Meyer Timber.    [...]

Roundwood prices in Switzerland kept stable in 2016

The forestry industry in Switzerland got positive results during last year, both for the timber harvest and the energy market [...]
January 12, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Wood Energy / Europe

Wood-based panels and timber imports strongly increase in the UK

UK’s demand for imported timber and wood-based panel imports jumped 15% to 9.66 million m3 in 2014 [...]

The EU analyzes VPA progress on legal timber imports with Liberia

Representatives of Liberia and the EU have met to review progress towards implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), which [...]
January 5, 2016 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Africa / Europe

Bergs Timber to acquires Norvik’s Jarl Timber

Bergs Timber AB signed a letter of intent to acquire all of Jarl Timber’s shares, a subsidiary of Norvik [...]

Södra to expand sawn timber deliveries to the United States

Södra seeks to increase deliveries to the United States in the spring of 2015, as demand for wood products [...]

Schweighofer, Egger and Kronospan have most of the control over the Romanian timber market

Schweighofer, Kronospan and Egger are three Austrian companies with wood processing operations in Romania. Their cumulated business exceeded EUR 1 [...]