Sawmilling

Finland sawmills to target the Chinese market

Finland now ranks among the top five global exporters of softwood lumber. The Finnish Sawmills Industries association forecasts that production [...]
November 7, 2017 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe

Schweighofer plans to boost capacity at Kodersdorf sawmill

The Austrian  Group has bought the Kodersdorf sawmill in Saxony from the Klausner Group in 2015. Since then, the company [...]

Potlatch buys Deltic Timber

Potlatch Corporation and Deltic Timber Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an [...]

Overview of this year’s International Softwood Conference

    On the 5th and 6th October 2017 the 65th edition of the International Softwood Conference was [...]

Vietnam’s wood product exports might hit $8 billion in 2017

    Vietnam's exports of wood and timber products is forecast to reach US$8 billion in [...]

Finnish sawn timber production forecast to rise steady in 2017

    Finland’s sawn timber production is projected to reach 12.4 million m3 in 2017 (compared [...]
September 27, 2017 Market Analysis / Sawmilling / ...Europe

This year’s International Hardwood Conference to be organized in Venice

After the success of the last edition, the International Hardwood Conference 2017 will be organized from 15 to 17 November [...]

Resolute Forest Products cuts shifts at 7 sawmills due to US lumber duties

Forestry workers in Quebec prepare for the layoffs start, as a result of the softwood lumber dispute with the United [...]

Sawmills in the US increase softwood lumber production in January-February

US sawmills produced 5.285 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first two months of 2017, a [...]

Metsä buys 10 ha industrial site in Estonia to build a new birch plywood mill

Metsä Group’s Wood Products Industry Metsä Wood has bought a 10 hectare industrial site in the city of P [...]