Archives: 2019

SCA to buy another 10,000 hectares of forest land in Latvia

SCA has signed an agreement to acquire Sundin Mezs SIA from the unlisted Swedish company Livland Skog AB. Sundin Mezs [...]

Brazil: June price overview for various exported wood products

    Latest prices for Brazilian logs, sawnwood and plywood as of 1-15 June, 2019.   [...]

Austria: Price overview for wood pellets in July

The July price of pellets in Austria reached 229.6 € per tonne or 4.71 Cent per kWh.   [...]

Prices for Russian pellets exported to Europe higher this year

      The average price of Russian wood pellets sent to the European Union countries in [...]

The Swedish glulam industry continues to gain market share despite reduced construction activity

    The Swedish glulam industry continues to gain market share. The first quarter of 2019 shows a [...]

Conifex sells Fort St. James sawmill to Hampton Lumber

Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement with Hampton Lumber for the sale of [...]

EOS GA reconfirms Sampsa Auvinen

    The 2019 European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) General Assembly elected its new Board of [...]

China to recognize wood framing in new standard

Wood Frame Construction Technology (WFC) has officially been recognized for the first time by China’s Green Building Evaluation Standard [...]

Global lumber-exporting countries increased their shipments in early 2019

    The uptick in demand for lumber continued in early 2019, with most of the major lumber [...]

Vietnam sharply rising wood products exports might determine a lack of raw materials

With its abundant potential in wood processing, Vietnam is emerging as a major exporter of finished wood products in the [...]