Europe

Egger posts 3.4% turnover growth in the first half of its financial year

    The Egger Group, has completed the first half of its financial year 2019/2020 with a [...]

Worldwide output of wood products is at 70-year high

    The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood [...]

Brexit has dangerous consequences for the UK plywood market

“Brexit has been awful for the market, with uncertainty affecting demand, projects delayed and households deferring spending,” said a UK [...]

Pressure on the European plywood market continues

In the first half of 2019, the European plywood sector was experiencing a tightening market and competitive conditions. In the [...]

World’s lumber producers with mixed performances in 3Q/2019

The financial health of the world’s lumber producers was mixed in the 3Q/19. The gross margins fell in [...]

Germany: Damaged volumes from storms and bark beetle could reach 70 million m3 in 2019

As of September 2019, the estimates from 15 German states on this year’s incidence of damaged wood and the [...]

The European Commission presents the European Green Deal

Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. To [...]

FSC to act on potential fraud Paulownia wood supply chain in Asia

Following an extensive investigation into Paulownia wood supply chains, FSC has taken initial action against a number of companies that [...]

Austrian wood industry hit hard by climate change

Record snowfall, extreme drought and the hottest June in the history: weather extremes once again shaped the forest year 2019 [...]