Wood-based Panels

Lumber prices in the US start to recover

Market-related curtailments in British Columbia served as signs that framing lumber markets were oversold and downside risk was waning [...]

Metsä Wood starts full production for new birch plywood mill in Estonia in 2019

All production lines at Metsä Wood's Pärnu birch plywood mill in Estonia have now been started. More workforce [...]

US: Panels and lumber prices continue to fall at the end of March

The Random Lengths Framing Lumber Composite Price slipped $1.          Week [...]

Germany: Wood products prices overview in February 2019

    In February, the German producer price index for wood products has registered a high degree of [...]

Tarkett and Sonae Arauco cease operations of JV in Germany

Tarkett and Sonae Arauco announced the intention to cease the operations of their joint venture LaminatePark GmbH & Co. KG [...]

Metsä Wood starts test runs for its new LVL line

    Metsä Wood has started test runs on the new 65,000 cubic meter Kerto LVL line [...]

New Chinese OSB plant to start production in 2020

      Work to build a new Chinese OSB factory for wood-based materials manufacturer Jiangsu [...]

Less Malaysian plywood goes to Japan

  Japan expects its imported volume of plywood from Malaysia to further decline this year because of increasing prices [...]

Uncertain lumber market in the US causes mixed trends

    Framing lumber sales in US were inconsistent and price trends mixed, leaving buyers and sellers uncertain [...]

Kronospan plans to build new OSB plant in Ukraine

    Kronospan will build a new OSB plant on the existing Kronospan particleboard plant in Novovolynsk in [...]