Archives: 2019

India: Latest prices for teak, plywood and sawnwood

    Latest prices for Indian teak, plywood and sawnwood - 1-15 August 2019     [...]

Swedish softwood logs prices keep on going down

In the second quarter of 2019, according to the Swedish statistics, softwood logs prices in Sweden continued to fall, although [...]

China: MDF prices on the rise

Recently, the increasing intensity of environmental supervision has caused wood-based panel manufacturers in Shandong and Hebei to fall into [...]

Arauco’s particleboard operations in St. Stephens, Canada to cease by the end of 2019

Arauco North America has informed employees that particleboard operations will end in St. Stephen, Canada by the end of 2019 [...]

Price recovery for New Zealand’s logs exports to China

New Zealand log prices in China have improved after slumping earlier in the year, restoring a little confidence to the [...]

Slowdown in forest activity affects pellet producers in North America

Follow-through from unstoppable demand for solid wood products at the end of 2017 lead to robust lumber sales through [...]

Wood starts to replace concrete in the global construction industry

For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]

Kazakhstan temporary bans exports of timber

A temporary prohibition on the export of timber has entered into force in Kazakhstan,Trendreports with reference to the press [...]
August 29, 2019 Latest Trends / Forestry / ...Asia & Middle East

New rules for US hardwood logs exports to the European Union

The new EU implementing directive 2019/523 of 21 March 2019 (available on request) concerns the protection measures against the [...]

Vietnam expands wood pellet exports to Japan

Pellet imports to Japan from Vietnam jumped 219.6% y-o-y in first half of 2019 to 420.9 [...]