Largest Canadian lumber companies announce sawmill production curtailments in May
Major Canadian forestry products companies have announced sawmill production curtailments for the month of May. All complain about the surge [...]
May 8, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Forestry / Sawmilling / North America
Vietnam significantly increases pellet exports to Japan
Vietnam has increased 253.6% y-o-y pellet exports to Japan in first quarter of 2019 to [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Germany’s sawnwood demand at very high levels
Germany is Europe’s largest economy with GDP likely to have exceeded US$4 trillion for the first time in [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Furniture / Wood-based Panels / Europe
Wood pellets global trade raises by 21%, with US, Canada, Vietnam as major suppliers
Global trade of wood pellets jumped more than 21% year-over-year in 2018 when a new record of 22 [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East / China / Europe / North America / Russia
Interfor temporarily reduces lumber production at three of its sawmills in BC
Interfor Corp., one of Canada's leading lumber producers and among the largest lumber companies in the world, will curtail [...]
May 8, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / North America
Metsä launches project for EUR 200 million new pine sawmill
Metsä Fibre will launch a pre-engineering phase for the construction of a new pine sawmill with approximately 750,000 [...]
May 8, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
Lumber prices in the US start to recover
Market-related curtailments in British Columbia served as signs that framing lumber markets were oversold and downside risk was waning [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Wood-based Panels / North America
Rosewood harvesting, transport and export in Ghana have been banned
Ghana's government has placed a total ban on the harvesting, processing and export of rosewood with immediate effect. [...]
April 10, 2019
Market Analysis / Wood Industry Prices / ...Forestry / Africa
Furniture manufacturers in Europe lose export share market
European furniture manufacturers are also strongly motivated to maintain and increase share in their home markets as they are now [...]
April 10, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Furniture / Europe
Swedish sawmills exported -5% less softwood lumber in 2018
The Swedish sawmills have decreased their sawn and planed softwood lumber exports by -5%, to 12 [...]
April 10, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
