Archives: 2025

Stora Enso: Wood market remains unstable

Uncertainty continues to characterize the global economy, making it difficult to predict cyclical reversals. In Stora Enso’s second-quarter [...]
September 17, 2025 Latest Trends

Pressures mount on the global wood products sector

The cautious optimism for a weak recovery from the global recession that emerged in late Q4 2024 has faded as [...]
September 17, 2025 Latest Trends

Estonia’s Top 10 timber companies: Revenue performance in a volatile market

In 2024, Estonia’s timber industry recorded a year of stabilization after several years marked by volatility in both domestic [...]

Global softwood lumber market faces uneven demand and high costs in 2025

In 2025, the global softwood lumber market is experiencing a complex mix of regional divergences, high input costs, and uneven [...]
September 16, 2025

James Jones & Sons announces two further pallet manufacturing acquisitions in Australia

James Jones & Sons Ltd has announced the continued expansion of its pallet manufacturing division in Australia with the acquisition [...]
September 16, 2025 Latest Trends

EU wood pellet market sees temporary decline in 2024, forecasted to recover in 2025

The European Union is the world’s largest consumer of wood pellets, with total consumption reaching an estimated 22.6 [...]
September 16, 2025 Latest Trends

Majority of Saxon state forest drops FSC certification

The German state-owned company Sachsenforst is largely ending its pilot project for FSC certification of parts of the Saxon [...]
September 16, 2025 Latest Trends

Austrian sawmill industry: EUDR a threat to production

Austria’s sawmill industry has managed to stabilize sales and production despite a tough economic environment, according to DI Markus [...]
September 13, 2025 Latest Trends

Segezha Group to cut 350 jobs at Novoeniseysky sawmill

Segezha Group is cutting 350 jobs at the Novoeniseysky Wood-Chemical Complex in Lesosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, reducing the plant’s [...]
September 13, 2025 Latest Trends

Plywood importers drop lawsuits over circumvention finding on Vietnamese hardwood

Two U.S. importers have withdrawn their challenges to the Commerce Department’s anti-circumvention determination involving hardwood plywood from [...]
September 13, 2025 Latest Trends