South America

Brazil: Latest prices for logs, sawnwood and plywood

Latest prices for Brazilian logs, sawnwood and plywood prices 1-15 June, 2018.        [...]

Moody’s forecast for global paper and forest products industry upgrades to ‘positive’

Moody’s Corporation, bond credit rating business Moody’s Investors Service, has released a report which has changed the outlook [...]

Lenzing and Duratex to build giant pulp mill in Brazil

Lenzing, the Austrian cellulose fibres producer, and Duratex, the Brazilian wood panels maker, announced plan to build a dissolving wood [...]

Proteak sales disadvantaged by slow MDF market

Proteak, a world leader in the production of teak and since 2016 manufacturer of MDF boards under the Tecnotabla brand [...]

Wood-based products exports from Brazil went up by 30%

In April 2018, the value of Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) increased 30% compared to [...]

IKEA to expand in South America, through Falabella

On May 17th S.A.C.I. Falabella and Inter IKEA Systems B.V., owner of the IKEA Concept and [...]

EU imports of tropical sawnwood went down during Q1/2018

EU imports of tropical sawn wood decreased 6% to 166,100 MT in the first quarter of 2018. This was [...]

China increases tropical logs & sawnwood imports

China’s log imports from the USA in the first three months of 2018 totalled 1.41 million cubic metres [...]

Brazil latest prices for logs, sawnwood and plywood

Latest prices for Brazilian logs, sawnwood and plywood prices 1-15 May, 2018.        [...]

Harvard University wants to sell some of its South American timberlands

Harvard University is currently trying to sell a part of its timberland investments in South America to investors that would [...]