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Falling costs for lumber producers in Europe and N. America

Wood raw-material costs for many lumber producers in Europe and North America have fallen over the past year both [...]

Merkel to promise half a billion euros to revitalise German forests

Angela Merkel’s government has promised more than half a billion euros to revitalise the country’s crisis-hit forests [...]

German producer prices for wood products fall due to the bark beetle infestation

The German producer prices for commercial wood products in July now clearly show the consequences of the bark beetle infestation [...]

New large player in the Swedish forest industry emerges

    Norra Skogsägarna and Norrskog plan to merge into a joint forest owners' association, which is [...]

IKEA posts record sales on booming online revenues

    IKEA reported annual sales above 40 billion euros ($44 billion) for the first time on Wednesday [...]

German sawyers’ profits booming, as forests are ravaged by bark beetle and drought

    Sales of German sawmills, planing mills and wood impregnators have increased nominally by around 33% over [...]

List of largest wood-based panel producers in China

    With a total production of 1,490,000 m3/year, Jilin Sen Workers' Forming Group Co [...]

Stora Enso to appoint new CEO

Annica Bresky will become chief executive of Finnish pulp, paper and packaging board giant Stora Enso Oyj from December, taking [...]

Katerra opens the largest CLT plant in N. America

Engineered wood and building development giant Katerra's new cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant is now open in [...]

US softwood lumber prices continue to improve

    The mix of different types of building that make up the critical U.S. housing market [...]