EU hardwood trade steady despite many challenges
While uncertainty surrounding Brexit may be casting a shadow over the UK market the wider EU [...]
August 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
Germany boosts softwood lumber deliveries to China
Following a -32% drop in exports last year, European softwood lumber deliveries to China have recovered in the [...]
August 5, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe
FSC to sanction Korean-Indonesian company
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has sanctioned Korean-Indonesian conglomerate Korindo for clearing tropical forests in Indonesia to produce palm [...]
August 5, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Europe
EGGER reports stable financial year and record investments
The wood-based panels giant recorded sales of EUR 2.84 billion and adjusted EBITDA of EUR 425.0 million [...]
August 5, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / Europe
Prospects for American Softwoods on the European market
American Softwoods Consultant, Charles Trevor, was interviewed by AEIM (Spanish Association of Wood Trade and Industry) and the article appeared [...]
August 5, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe / North America
Current trends in Europe’s industrial wood pellet market
In markets such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and the Netherlands residential use is negligible and the demand for wood [...]
August 2, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
UPM to build a new giant pulp mill in Uruguay
UPM has made the investment decision to construct a 2,1 million tonne greenfield eucalyptus pulp mill near Paso de [...]
August 2, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Pulp & Paper / Sawmilling / Europe
Lower sawlog costs in Germany drive the lumber industry export sales
Large volumes of storm and insect damaged trees in Germany have resulted in an oversupply of [...]
August 2, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Europe
Current trends in the European residential wood pellet market
Residential use for heating, about 40 percent of the total pellet market, fluctuates annually but is relatively stable compared to [...]
August 1, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Homag to negatively revise its earnings forecast for 2019
German woodworking machinery giant Homag announced that it will negatively revise its earnings forecast for 2019 [...]
August 1, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Woodworking Machinery / Europe