Europe

Universal Forest Products acquires Wolverine Wood Products

    Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates has signed an agreement to purchase [...]

EU plywood importers face the risk of oversupply

EU plywood importers report that in the latter part of the year, the plywood market started to turn around and [...]

German woodworking machinery reaches record sales in 2018

    In the five years from 2014 to 2018, the production of German manufacturers of woodworking machinery [...]

International Forest Products buys UK’s Price and Pierce Forest Products

International Forest Products LLC (IFP) is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire all of the equity of Price and [...]

The European plywood industry under pressure

    It’s been a roller coaster 12 months for the European plywood industry according to stockholder [...]

Wood-based materials to be protected from fire by new additive

Together with BRUAG Fire Protection AG, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) specialists have developed a [...]
February 20, 2019 Latest Trends / Wood Construction / ...Europe

Sawlog prices on an upward trend in Lithuania

    As compared to December 2018, all prices for roundwood in Lithuania have increased in Lithuania in [...]

Record production of wood pellets in Germany

The energy turnaround in the heating market is still not progressing in Germany, as the only moderate increase in renewable [...]
February 20, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Södra reports its best result in history

Södra’s consolidated net sales for full-year 2018 rose 18 percent to SEK 24,230 million (2018: 20 [...]

Fivefold increase for the European softwood logs exports to China

The total European softwood logs deliveries to China have went significantly up during January-November 2018, due to a boost [...]
February 19, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / China / Europe