Europe

Norwegian roundwood prices up by 15% during Q2/2018

In Norway, a total of 2.80 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood were cut for sale in the second [...]

EU demand for wood pellets still at a high level

    The EU is the world’s largest wood pellet market, with consumption of about 22.7 [...]
September 26, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

European tropical logs and sawnood on recover this year

    After a downturn in 2017, the quantity of EU imports of tropical logs recovered a little [...]

Production of wood pellets keeps growing in European countries

With a production of about 14.3 MMT in 2017, about fifty percent of global production, the EU is the [...]
September 24, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Oak lumber restrictions lifted in Croatia

The transport restrictions for oak wood in Croatia which have the purpose of preventing the propagation of the oak lace [...]
September 24, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

Europe might profit from the US-China trade war

The additional tariffs of the US government under President Donald Trump slow the Chinese growth by 0.1 to 0 [...]

European tropical imports disappointing this year

EU imports of tropical wood products have been subdued so far in 2018 with little sign yet of any rebound [...]

Trends and current developments of the German sawmill industry

The German sawmill industry closed 2017 with a positive result. Above all the good 4th quarter dominated the annual result [...]

European forests ravaged by a bark beetle infestation

A bark beetle infestation is currently ravaging forests in Central and some Northern European countries. Reports from Germany, The Czech [...]
September 21, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe

Indonesia improves procedures for FLEGT licensing

Indonesia has taken several measures in recent months to improve procedures relating to FLEGT licences — the export licences that attest [...]