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 [...]
October 26, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...Europe
Potlatch buys Deltic Timber
Potlatch Corporation and Deltic Timber Corporation today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an [...]
October 20, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...North America
Overview of this year’s International Softwood Conference
On the 5th and 6th October 2017 the 65th edition of the International Softwood Conference was [...]
October 15, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / North America / Russia
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 [...]
October 8, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East
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 [...]
September 20, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...Africa / Asia & Middle East / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / North America / Russia / South America
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 [...]
May 16, 2017
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America
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 [...]
May 15, 2017
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America
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 [...]
April 13, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Sawmilling / ...Wood-based Panels / Europe