Sawmilling

Mayr-Melnhof offers US $ 30 million for Klausner Lumber Two

    Mayr-Melnhof Holz intends to submit a “stalking horse bid”  for Klausner Lumber Two, Enfield / North [...]

Canfor sells Fort Nelson forest tenure to wood pellet producer

Canfor will sell its forest tenure in the Fort Nelson region of British Columbia to the wood pellet company that [...]

Record low wood prices in Austria due to bark beetle and corona crisis

    Climate change, the corona crisis and difficult market conditions have put Austria's forest industry in [...]

Bark beetle logs from Europe fill China’s wood gap

    The world wood market has become very chaotic due to the outbreak of the coronavirus which [...]

Brazil: Exports of most wood products rising

    At the beginning of the pandemic there were forecasts of reductions in domestic demand and exports [...]

Hopes that the Biden administration will end the softwood lumber dispute

There's a glimmer of hope the ongoing softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States might come to [...]

Södra sees a increase increase in spruce bark beetle damage

A late summer swarming caused a widespread spruce bark beetle outbreak and Södra now sees a significant increase in [...]
November 23, 2020 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

China extends ban on imports of timber from Australia

China has indefinitely suspended imports of all Victorian timber logs, less than a week after an unofficial ban on Australian [...]

Largest sawmill group in the world buys largest OSB producer

     West Fraser has announced plans to acquire Norbord in a US$3.1bn takeover in what [...]

Chinese softwood logs and lumber imports update (Sep. 2020)

    Softwood log stocks at China’s main ocean ports totalled 4.6 million m3 at the [...]