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Homag Group backlog stable despite still weak market demand

Homag Group closed out the first half of 2026 with both incoming orders and revenue below last year's [...]
July 24, 2026 Latest Trends

US plywood tariffs finalized as Vietnam rate drops, China stays high

The US Department of Commerce has published final antidumping and countervailing-duty determinations covering hardwood and decorative plywood imports from [...]
July 24, 2026 Latest Trends

Pfeifer doubles output at its Finnish flagship sawmill

Pfeifer's Kajaani plant looks different than it did two years ago. The mill has been rebuilt around a [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

SCA Q2 2026: Sawmill business went through its worst margin squeeze in years

SCA’s sawmill business recorded the sharpest earnings deterioration across the group in the second quarter of 2026, as higher [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

Trump’s new round of 50% tariffs spare most of Canada’s timber trade

On Monday, the United States government invoked a trade law it had never used before. Section 338 of the 1930 [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

European sawmills starve for logs as Brussels tightens the rules

Brussels' rulebook is placing enormous strain on both the forest sector and land management more broadly, because it is [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

Latvia’s €50 million timber scandal deepens as prosecutors move to overturn government support scheme

For more than two years, Latvia's timber industry has been living with a question that few expected to [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

Lumber hits a one-year figh as fires rage in Canada

Lumber prices pushed past $640 per thousand board feet this week, the highest level in a year, as wildfire activity [...]
July 23, 2026 Latest Trends

Why an Austrian sawmill dynasty is buying into Scandinavia?

There is a certain irony in the fact that HS Timber Group's newest acquisition sits barely a few [...]
July 22, 2026

EUDR breaches: fines up to €100,000, prison sentences possible

Enforcement of the EU Deforestation Regulation is starting to take shape at the national level, and the emerging picture is [...]
July 22, 2026 Latest Trends