Europe

Germany’s sawnwood demand at very high levels

Germany is Europe’s largest economy with GDP likely to have exceeded US$4 trillion for the first time in [...]

Wood pellets global trade raises by 21%, with US, Canada, Vietnam as major suppliers

Global trade of wood pellets jumped more than 21% year-over-year in 2018 when a new record of 22 [...]

Metsä launches project for EUR 200 million new pine sawmill

Metsä Fibre will launch a pre-engineering phase for the construction of a new pine sawmill with approximately 750,000 [...]

Furniture manufacturers in Europe lose export share market

European furniture manufacturers are also strongly motivated to maintain and increase share in their home markets as they are now [...]

Swedish sawmills exported -5% less softwood lumber in 2018

    The Swedish sawmills have decreased their sawn and planed softwood lumber exports by -5%, to 12 [...]

Building materials market in Europe forecast to grow significantly in the next 5 years

Europe building materials market is fragmented in nature due to the presence of numerous domestic manufacturing companies catering wide product [...]

Metsä Wood starts full production for new birch plywood mill in Estonia in 2019

All production lines at Metsä Wood's Pärnu birch plywood mill in Estonia have now been started. More workforce [...]

Finnish sawlog prices on the rise in February

Sawlog prices in Finland increased for almost all assortments during in February as compared to the same month last year [...]

Rising interest for Swedish Wood in India

The Indian wood industry is showing strong interest in Swedish Wood.    The 6th edition of the [...]

France: Lumber price list for Q4/2018

    FRANCE LUMBER PRICES for the 4th quarter 2018         [...]