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International Forest Products buys UK’s Price and Pierce Forest Products

International Forest Products LLC (IFP) is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire all of the equity of Price and [...]

The European plywood industry under pressure

    It’s been a roller coaster 12 months for the European plywood industry according to stockholder [...]

Chinese lumber imports on a downward trend

China's demand for logs and lumber grew in 2018 as compared to 2017, but most of the gains were [...]
February 22, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / China

Russia to virtually stop export of logs starting 2021

Export duties on three species (larch, spruce and fir) in Far East Russia has been raised by 15 points to [...]
February 22, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Russia

SCA inaugurates its the largest pulp mill in the world

    Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated SCA’s pulp mill Östrand in Timrå. The expansion [...]

Wood-based materials to be protected from fire by new additive

Together with BRUAG Fire Protection AG, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) specialists have developed a [...]
February 20, 2019 Latest Trends / Wood Construction / ...Europe

Record year for Western Forest Products, despite softwood lumber duties

Despite paying up more than $43 million in softwood lumber duties, Western Forest Products managed to realize a profit of [...]

Sawlog prices on an upward trend in Lithuania

    As compared to December 2018, all prices for roundwood in Lithuania have increased in Lithuania in [...]

New Zealand logs prices near records

Forestry prices in New Zealand — one of the world’s largest timber exporters — are near record highs, thanks largely to [...]

Record production of wood pellets in Germany

The energy turnaround in the heating market is still not progressing in Germany, as the only moderate increase in renewable [...]
February 20, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe