Sawmilling

Companies in Europe to see hundreds of billions of euros in production losses

    The fight against the coronavirus will lead to production losses, which will cost European countries hundreds [...]

Canadian forest products industry allowed to operate in corona crisis

With the country settling into the reality of social distancing and non-essential business closures for the next few weeks [...]

Wood companies in France seek to restart activity

Each month of lockdown would cost between 2% and 3% growth for the French economy. Under these conditions, French wood [...]

Finland’s sawmill industry expected to be hit hard by the coronavirus crisis

    The coronavirus crisis strikes Finland's forest sector with varying degrees of impact. On the whole [...]

Estonian company builds large softwood sawmill in Belarus

    The Belarusian wood processing industry will become more competitive following the construction of a new sawmill [...]

Lockdowns in Europe rewrite economic forecasts

    Economic forecasts issued only a few weeks ago in Europe, which projected continuing slow increase this [...]

German timber industry: Coronavirus worsens the ongoing bark beetle, storm crisis

The German forestry and timber industry was already in a state of emergency before the coronavirus pandemic: storms, drought and [...]

African tropical timber market impacted by the coronavirus crisis

    As the coronavirus pandemic is expanding in many countries of the world, the tropical timber market [...]

Weyerhaeuser reduces lumber production by 20%

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Weyerhaeuser is dynamically adjusting operating capacity at certain of its manufacturing facilities.   [...]

Metsä to build ”world’s most modern sawmill” in Finland

    Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has made the decision to build the ''world’s most [...]