Western Forest Products completes acquisition of Calvert Company
Western Forest Products Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, WFP Engineered Products LLC, has completed the acquisition of certain assets [...]
September 6, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / Wood-based Panels / North America
N. American lumber prices fall to new low as housing market continues to cool off
North American lumber prices fell 4% to a new 2022 low on Tuesday as the housing [...]
September 2, 2022
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Wood-based Panels / North America
Sanctions dramatically bring down wood product manufacturing in Russia
In July, wood products manufacturing in Russia fell 20.4% y-o-y according to data [...]
September 1, 2022
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Wood Energy / Wood-based Panels / Europe / Russia
Borg Manufacturing starts thin MDF board production at Oberon site in Australia
Borg Manufacturing produced its first board on the new MDF plant made by Siempelkamp. This milestone [...]
August 29, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood-based Panels / Woodworking Machinery / Australia and Pacific Region / Europe
Russian plywood industry in crisis
The Russian plywood industry, hit hardest by EU sanctions, continued to decline. Russia's domestic plywood market has seen excess [...]
August 26, 2022
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Tight supply woes for Malaysian plywood players
Tightness in supply has driven the export prices of hardwood plywood manufactured in Sarawak to surge [...]
August 24, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / Asia & Middle East
Kastamonu Entegre eyes top three spot in the global wood-based panel market
Already one of the world’s top five wood-based panel manufacturers, Kastamonu Entegre is raising [...]
August 24, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / Europe
Büttner receives order from West Fraser
The Canada-based West Fraser company has awarded Büttner the contract to replace the existing Bison drum type 5 [...]
August 23, 2022
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood-based Panels / Woodworking Machinery / Europe / North America
US DoC rules Vietnam circumvented hardwood plywood duties
The Department of Commerce has ruled that hardwood plywood assembled and exported from Vietnam used Chinese [...]
August 17, 2022
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U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on Russian wood products
Starting from July 27, the United States imposed a 35% tariff on 570 items of goods imported from Russia, including [...]
August 16, 2022
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