Sawmilling

Metsä Wood puts EUR 23 million order for Raute improving their LVL mill

    Raute Corporation received from Metsä Wood, the Wood Products Business Area of Metsä Group, orders totaling [...]

As Canada starts case at WTO, the US warns to replace Canadian goods for Chinese softwood imports

Canada has filed a wide-ranging complaint to the World Trade Organization, explaining how the US applies the punitive tarrifs [...]
February 8, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / China / North America

Weaker logs demand in the EU keeps low prices in Central and West Africa

Central and West African producers are expressing confidence that the current price stability and steady order volumes for African species [...]

Swedish sawmills invest in the expansion of lumber production capacity

Valutec is set to deliver three major TC continuous kilns to Västerbotten county in the norhern parts of Sweden [...]

Vietnam wooden products exports reach $9 billion in 2018

    Vietnam's forestry products exports are forecast to reach $9 billion this year. The value of [...]

Valutec brings two more continuous kilns to Central Europe

    Austria's Hasslacher Norica Timber and Germany's Robeta Holzindustrie have chosen Valutec to deliver two [...]

Softwood lumber imports from UK to Europe not affected by Brexit

    UK's softwood lumber imports from the European Union countries haven't been yet affected by [...]

European sawmills expand market share in East Asia

During the last few years softwood lumber import in Southeast Asia has increased dramatically with China as the top performer [...]

New Zealand’s log prices at historical level

Export log prices in New Zealand reached new record in January 2018, boosted by continued strong demand from China, a [...]

High oak prices and weak beech prices on the French hardwood market

    In France, the end of 2017 brought a new wave of rising oak log prices in [...]