The European Green Deal creates new opportunities for timber
The Green Deal, published on 11 December 2019 by the new European Commission and adopted by [...]
February 18, 2020
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Coronavirus: Russia suspends timber trains to China
Since January 31st, all railway transport between Russia and China is suspended except for Beijing-Moscow round-trip [...]
February 18, 2020
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Warm winter is disrupting logging activity in Estonia
Logging activity in Estonia is currently disrupted, due to the unusual warm and snowless winter; [...]
February 18, 2020
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Conifex completes sale of all U.S. sawmills to Resolute
Conifex has officially closed its previously announced transaction with Resolute Forest Products for the sale of [...]
February 18, 2020
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Coronavirus starts to shake to wood industry
There is industry concern that if the virus were to infect more people in coastal towns [...]
February 17, 2020
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Stora Enso’s sales drop in 2019
Despite achieving a turnover in excess of €10bn, each of Stora Enso’s group operations – packaging [...]
February 17, 2020
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European trade shows in opening weeks of 2020 the ”Greta effect”
As usual in January, the IMM furniture fair in Cologne and the Domotex flooring show in Hamburg were key events [...]
February 17, 2020
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Upward trend in Swedish roundwood prices in 2019
Delivery prices on roundwood has increased two years in a row. The increase of 2019 was however less than the [...]
February 12, 2020
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Bark beetle infestation hasn’t impacted the Baltic states
In contrast to large parts of Central Europe with a focus on Germany and Austria, the bark beetle calamity in [...]
February 12, 2020
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Trump wants to help plant 1 trillion trees
President Trump announced the United States will join a 1 trillion trees initiative launched at the [...]
February 12, 2020
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