Wood Construction

Prefabricated wood construction to make new leap in Chile

    The Chilean company E2E is a joint venture between Arauco and the Belgian company Etex. Its [...]

No impact on retail prices due to BC curtailments

Despite several curtailments for different BC lumber producers, the impacts of them have yet to be felt in the retail [...]

Challenging market conditions lower profits for Swedish Setra

Swedish wood products company Setra has reported an operating profit of SEK 95 (287) million for the period January-September [...]

European companies gather to promote timber as replacement of steel and concrete in buildings

Armed with €10m in EU funding, a consortium of 21 European companies and organisations has formed to try and make [...]

US lumber prices bounce back despite low housing starts

    North American lumber prices have bounced back but how long will this last? A look at [...]

Vietnam’s wood industry struggles to prevent trade fraud as Chinese move business in the country

    According to a market research on wood processing market of Vietnam by Forest Trend, in the [...]

SmartLam wants to become the biggest CLT producer in North America

SmartLam aims to produce 17.2 million cubic feet of annual CLT production by 2022. Smartlam says that it has [...]

Timber skyscrapers hold the key to green cities

    Recent studies have shown the environmental benefits of timber residential developments and in future wooden skyscrapers [...]

German producer prices for wood products fall due to the bark beetle infestation

The German producer prices for commercial wood products in July now clearly show the consequences of the bark beetle infestation [...]

Katerra opens the largest CLT plant in N. America

Engineered wood and building development giant Katerra's new cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant is now open in [...]