Europe

Turkey’s furniture exports have grown consistently since 2000

Turkey's furniture exports have grown consistently since 2000. The industry's foreign sales achieved an eighteenfold rise to nearly [...]

Bergs Timber buys pellet plant in Sweden

Bergs Timber AB has signed an agreement with AB Fogelfors Bruk to acquire all shares in Fågelfors Hyvleri AB [...]

New technology promises to create 3D printed wood products

A 3D printing process that uses a wood-based ink to produce components with the unique ‘ultrastructure’ of wood has [...]

Stora Enso closes sawmill in Finland; plans to boost spruce production

    Stora Enso plans to consolidate the Finnish spruce (whitewood) production to Varkaus sawmill. The plan includes [...]

Falling spruce roundwood prices in Finland

    Spruce roundwood prices in Finland are on a falling trend in May 2019, both as compared [...]

SCA to buy another 10,000 hectares of forest land in Latvia

SCA has signed an agreement to acquire Sundin Mezs SIA from the unlisted Swedish company Livland Skog AB. Sundin Mezs [...]

Austria: Price overview for wood pellets in July

The July price of pellets in Austria reached 229.6 € per tonne or 4.71 Cent per kWh.   [...]

Prices for Russian pellets exported to Europe higher this year

      The average price of Russian wood pellets sent to the European Union countries in [...]

The Swedish glulam industry continues to gain market share despite reduced construction activity

    The Swedish glulam industry continues to gain market share. The first quarter of 2019 shows a [...]

EOS GA reconfirms Sampsa Auvinen

    The 2019 European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) General Assembly elected its new Board of [...]