Archives: 2018

Softwood logs exports from Europe to China excedeed those of softwood lumber

      Due to a massive boost of exports from France, total European softwood logs deliveries [...]

Lumber prices in the US went down at the beginning of August

Framing lumber prices in US spiraled downward, as mills searched for trading levels to little avail. Deep double-digit cuts [...]

Sonae Arauco plans to build new particleboard plant at its site in Germany

Sonae Arauco decided to invest in a new state-of-the-art particleboard plant at the company’s Beeskow site [...]

China’s wood companies face difficulties in the US market

    Data from China Customs shows that in 2017 total value of China’s wood products trade [...]

EGGER Group reports record results

    The EGGER Group again set new records in its annual results for 2017/2018.   [...]

Swedish sawmills in jeopardy due to tight log supply caused by forest fires

Although consumption of wood raw-material by the Swedish forest industry has risen in 2017 and early 2018, sawmills have [...]

Arauco to make its largest investment in its history

Arauco’s Board of Directors recently approved the MAPA project (Spanish acronym for Modernization and Extension of Arauco Mill), a [...]

Germany: Record wood pellets production in the first half of 2018

    In the first half of 2018, around 1.18 million tonnes of wood pellets were produced [...]

Latest trends in the European oak market

    Prices across the range of temperate species are said to be firm thanks to demand levels [...]

Georgia-Pacific to build large sawmill in Georgia, USA

Georgia-Pacific announced plans for construction of a new lumber production facility in Albany-Dougherty County, Georgia, USA.   [...]