Europe

EU aims to plant 3 billion trees

    As part of a new strategy to protect nature in the European Union, three billion new [...]
July 22, 2021 Latest Trends / Forestry / ...Europe

European sawmills to play an increasingly important role on the global export market

Softwood lumber has been in high demand in the US and Europe throughout 2021. The limited supply resulted in temporary [...]

Floods may affect timber production in western Germany

Heavy rains in western Europe caused floods to hit Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and other countries. In Germany alone [...]

EU Commission presents its climate package, European forest industry reacts

The European Commission presented the Fit for 55 plan on Wednesday, July 14. 13 legislative proposals are intended to help [...]

China: Log demand slows in July

The past six months have brought record New Zealand export log prices to China This has been because of a [...]

Rising trend timber prices in the Netherlands has no end in sight

    Timber prices in the Netherlands have more than doubled in recent months. It's also not [...]

Setra invests in a new saw line

The Swedish wood industry company Setra invests in a new saw line for small diameter logs at the company's [...]

Volume bark beetle damaged wood in Europe expected to be lower this year

    Over the last few years, Central European forests (but also parts of Sweden, France, and Belgium [...]

Boom in demand for sawn softwood in France; prices going up

As long as it lasts! In the softwood forests of eastern France, sawyers are crossing their fingers because the sawnwood [...]

Moelven upgrades two sawmills in Sweden

  Moelven will modernise and develop capacity at Moelven Edanesågen AB and Moelven Valåsen AB in Sweden [...]