Archives: 2019

Södra to lower purchase prices for spruce roundwood due to troubled market environment

    The high supply of spruce roundwood in Sweden and Central Europe as well as the obvious [...]

France: Softwood prices drop sharply due to the bark beetle crisis

    In the northern half of France, forest owners of spruce and fir are very concerned. During [...]

Dark clouds over the Indian plywood industry

The future hasn't panned out the way organised Indian plywood and particleboard makers envisaged after the implementation of the [...]

30% more pellets sold by Enviva in the first quarter

    The US-based pellet producer Enviva Partners LP marketed 843,000 t of pellets in the [...]

Romania announces plans to ban the exports of logs

Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) has announced the intention to file a bill to ban the export of [...]

Hardwood lumber exports from U.S. to China go 40% down during Q1/2019

Hardwood lumber exports from U.S. to China fell 39.8% y-o-y to 352.0 thousand m3 in [...]

Norway: Roundwood prices rise sharply during Q1/2019

    Following a favourable 2018 for the Norwegian forest industry, when a total of 10.7 million [...]

Russia: RFP Group annouces plans for building second wood pellet plant

RFP Group plans to build a second pellet plant with a capacity of about 70 thousand tons per year.  [...]

Lumber prices in the US plunge during May

The US lumber market took a step back after showing signs in prior weeks that it might break out of [...]