Sawmilling

Europe’s Nordic forestry giants deliver great Q3 results, lumber markets weaken

Forestry giants in Northern Europe, Stora Enso, UPM and Metsä Group have benefited from the rising prices on their financial [...]

China: Softwood log demand and prices low; spruce imports from Europe down sharply

China softwood log inventory remains below the 4m m3 despite China having the Golden Week holiday at the start of [...]

Price of birch wood rising sharply in Finland

    The halt in Russian imports has pushed up the price of birch wood in Finland, which [...]

Wood prices expected to continue to rise in Latvia

Currently, there is a shortage of wood and especially pellets in Europe. And at least not yet, it is not [...]

Softwood log prices continue fall in Germany

The German producer price indices for spruce partially stopped their upward trend in August 2022. On average the index for [...]

N. American sawmills to cut production in bid to lift lumber prices

    A string of sawmill curtailments has buoyed lumber prices amid a flood of dismal housing data [...]

Ireland: Falling timber prices in Q3/2022

Economic uncertainty due to the war in Ukraine and a decline in consumer confidence is impacting on timber prices in [...]

Finland: Fall in log prices in September

    Timber trade in Finland continued brisk in September, with the total volume five per cent higher [...]

Interfor announces temporary Q4 production curtailments

Interfor Corporation has announced plans to reduce its lumber production output in the fourth quarter of 2022 by approximately 200 [...]

Russia reoriented lumber exports from Europe to China

The transformation of the global economic situation in the world has led to changes in partnership and market relations between [...]