Europe

Top wood products companies in Latvia

Latvijas Finieris was the leading wood processing and paper production company in Latvia in terms of turnover last year. Latvijas [...]

STTC Conference to consider links between FLEGT licenses and forest certification

    To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from [...]

Romania considers banning wood exports outside the EU

    More than half of Romania’s wood exports go outside the European Union (EU), official statistics [...]
December 20, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

Belarus to commission six pellet factories in H1/2020

The Forestry Ministry in Belarus intends to commission six factories to make wood pellets in the regions in H1 2020 [...]

Sawlog prices falling in most major markets around the world

A plentiful supply of logs coupled with declining demand moved sawlog prices downward in most major markets around the world [...]

Dieffenbacher forecasts continued high demand from wood-based panel industry

Wood recycling plants for the wood-based panels industry were the main driver of Dieffenbacher’s recycling business in 2019 [...]

Latvia: IKTK builds new glulam plant

    The Latvian timber building structures producer IKTK has invested about two million euro in large-sized [...]

Moody’s to change Ilim Timber’s outlook to negative; forecasts cyclical downturn in the global timber industry

Moody's Investors Service has changed Ilim Timber's outlook to negative from positive. At the same time, Moody's [...]

Holzindustrie Schweighofer to become HS Timber Group

The Holzindustrie Schweighofer Group is getting a new name and look with a soft relaunch of its brand appearance: the [...]