Archives: 2019

Weyerhaeuser to sell its Michigan timberlands

Weyerhaeuser Company announced an agreement to sell its 555,000 acres of Michigan timberlands to Lyme Great Lakes Holding LLC [...]

Record softwood lumber imports in China

Demand for lumber in China, the United Kingdom, Egypt and the Netherlands increased this year despite a slowdown in the [...]

Tolko to curtail BC lumber mill indefinitely

    Tolko Industries announced that, due to continued high log costs and poor North American market conditions [...]

Japanese forestry giants expand in New Zealand

    The growing need in emerging markets for building materials and fuel has spurred Japanese trading houses [...]

Chinese wood imports to stabilize despite a slowing economy and high 2019 domestic stocks

China’s 2019 imports of wood products are projected to stabilize despite a slowing economy and high 2019 domestic stocks [...]

Market prospects for the European softwood lumber in Egypt brightening

    The EU countries have increased their exports by almost 50% this year, as the country's [...]

Siempelkamp to deliver new wood-based panels plant in Japan

ENboard Co. Ltd., the new joint venture of the furniture manufacturer Eidai Co., Ltd. and Japan Novopan Industrial Company Ltd [...]

China: Prices of wood products for September 2019

    This index contains the most update prices of logs and lumbers from the two major timber [...]

Crisis in BC forestry industry deepening

    British Columbia's forestry industry is going through a deeper crisis, led mostly by high log [...]

International Hardwood Conference; Berlin, November 20-21

              Hardwoods become more and more important [...]