Sawmilling

The 67th International Softwood Conference 2019 coming up this month

    Antwerp, on the crossroads of international trade and a major harbour for wood and wood products [...]

European softwood logs exports to China triple as the bark beetle infestation advances

    As the bark beetle infestation ravages European forests and consequently the supply of logs has increased [...]

Production costs for North American wood pellet producers on the rise

    Many pellet manufacturers in North America have had to increase the usage of logs for their [...]

Falling prices for Finnish pine and spruce sawlogs

Pine and spruce sawlog prices in Finland are on a falling trend in August 2019, both as compared to the [...]

Falling demand and drop in prices for US hardwood due to trade war with China

  Lumber mills in the U.S. have been a casualty of President Trump's trade war with China [...]

Stora Enso to shut down Kitee sawmill by the end of the year

Stora Enso will consolidate its spruce timber production at its mill in Varkaus, Finland, where spruce timber production has synergies [...]

Russia to double export tariffs for Far Eastern softwood species

By Decree No. 1169 of September 7, 2019, the Government of the Russian Federation doubled (from 6.5% to 13 [...]

France: List of prices for various lumber products in Q2/2019

    FRANCE LUMBER PRICES for the 2nd quarter 2019         [...]

Falling costs for lumber producers in Europe and N. America

Wood raw-material costs for many lumber producers in Europe and North America have fallen over the past year both [...]

Merkel to promise half a billion euros to revitalise German forests

Angela Merkel’s government has promised more than half a billion euros to revitalise the country’s crisis-hit forests [...]