Europe

There is a bubble in Latvia’s timber market that will burst sooner or later

    Currently, the Latvian lumber market is experiencing a significant price increase or bubble, which will sooner [...]

Warning in US against European lumber

The North Carolina Building Code Council warns of potentially “catastrophic” failures caused by European lumber. It remains to be seen [...]

Central Europe: Sawmills struggling to get logs; historical price increases

Within the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) softwood lumber prices in June are still on the rise due to [...]

New coronavirus outbreak causes huge backlog at China’s ports

    A coronavirus outbreak in in southern China has clogged ports critical to global trade, causing a [...]

Brussels aims to tighten rules on burning wood pellets

    Brussels wants to tighten rules to prevent some forms of wood-burning energy from counting towards [...]

Finland’s sawmills benefit from lumber boom

    The outlook for the Finnish forest industry is quite positive, Danske Bank's economic information estimated [...]

Wood prices are breaking records in Poland

    Polish sawmills are struggling with rising wood prices. Currently, in the free market, they have to [...]

Wood is the new gold: Prices explode in Germany

  The raw material wood is in high demand on the world market. This is causing skyrocketing prices and [...]

UK Q1/2021 timber imports highest in more than a decade

    Supply expected to remain tight throughout 2021.    The volume of UK timber [...]

European spruce log prices fall sharply in China

In China the prices for softwood logs decreased by 20 € last week due to the standard summer halting demand.  [...]