Sawmilling

Higher timber prices in Sweden expected in 2021

    Expect higher timber prices in Sweden in 2021    This is how you [...]

US lumber futures post biggest-ever weekly loss

Lumber futures posted their biggest-ever weekly loss, extending a tumble from all-time highs reached last month as sawmills [...]

Austrian wood industry sees rising sawn timber and roundwood prices

Despite the COVID restrictions, the wood industry in Austria got through the 2020 pandemic year well. The almost 1,300 [...]

France: Supply shortages, wood prices up 50%

A timber shortage in France has forced prices up as architects struggle to comply with a new environmental law that [...]

Wood demand could stay strong for the next decade, says Weyerhaeuser CEO

The home-building and renovation boom could keep wood demand strong for the next decade, the biggest U.S. lumber [...]

Sawmill orders shrinking a sign that lumber prices might fall soon

As May rolled into June and following the dual long weekends of Victoria Day in Canada and Memorial Day in [...]

Resolute Forest Products invests $50 million in its sawmills

    Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced additional capital investments of $50 million in its wood products operations [...]

Timber import prices started to fall in China

    Timber import prices in China have started to fall in mid-May and continued the downward [...]

Global wood raw material supply is expected to tighten with through 2021

By the last quarter of 2020, timber demand was becoming excessive and record levels continued through Q1, 2021.    [...]