Archives: 2021

Global wood raw material supply is expected to tighten with through 2021

By the last quarter of 2020, timber demand was becoming excessive and record levels continued through Q1, 2021.    [...]

Shortages of wood raw material are widespread in US

More than 90% of US homebuilders report a shortage of lumber, OSB, and appliances.    The National [...]

Turkey to limit export of wood raw materials to avoid shortages

    Turkey has started implementing limitations on exports of some raw materials of furniture, including flakeboard, oriented [...]

N. American lumber price rally seems to stall

The unprecedented rally in the lumber market has begun to falter, but industry analysts expect lumber prices to remain at [...]

Canfor to invest $160 million in a new sawmill in Louisiana

    Canfor Corporation today announced it will invest approximately $160 million USD to build a new, state [...]

Sweden: Sawmills run at high speed on record export prices

In its latest newsletter, Danske Bank has taken a closer look at the Swedish sawmills' corona boom and how long [...]

The market has tipped in US, lumber prices finally fall

    The futures price for lumber peaked in early May. But the "cash" price (the price sawmills [...]

German furniture industry faces worsening raw material bottlenecks

In the German furniture industry, the supply situation for important supplier products is worsening. In a current association survey, around [...]

Japan wood industry in danger due to global timber shortage

A global shortage of wood and soaring prices are threatening Japan’s lumber industry and has business operators fearing serious [...]

Segezha Group sent first lumber container train from Russia to China

    On May 21, the Arkhangelsk-based company Onega Sawmills - part of the Segezha Group - sent its [...]