Archives: 2019

China: Many timber processing plants in Guangdong province to limit or cease production

Many timber processing plants in Guangdong Province have stopped or limited their production recently due to local environment protection policy [...]

US to investigate plywood coming from Vietnam

The import tariff on Vietnamese plywood in the US market is in range of 0–8%; meanwhile, the anti-dumping [...]

Growth in EU tropical timber imports slows in the third quarter

    The EU’s trade in tropical wood products was more buoyant in the first nine of [...]

ISC 2019 2: Canadian lumber industry in crisis after crisis

On October 17 and 18, 2019, the 67th International Softwood Conference took place in Antwerp in the Radisson Blu Astrid [...]

Global cross-laminated timber (CLT) production capacities in 2020

    In 2020, worldwide CLT production will amount to over 2 million m³ due to numerous large [...]

Forecast: Prices for Finnish logs expected to fall sharply this year and in 2020

    Due to the downward trend and lower production volumes in Finland's wood products industry, the [...]

U.S. furniture imports slow as shipments from China crash

    U.S. furniture imports fell in the first half, a result of a double-digit drop [...]

ISC 2019: Bark beetle crisis in Europe could last for years

    On October 17 and 18, 2019, the 67th International Softwood Conference took place in Antwerp in [...]

Tolko announces permanently closure of its Kelowna mill

Tolko Industries says it will permanently close its Kelowna mill on Jan. 8, after it was indefinetely curtailed in September [...]

Current demand in the global wood pellet industry

    The size of the global wood pellet market for 2019 was estimated to be valued at [...]