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Metsä Wood sets up new EUR 55 million birch plywood mill in Estonia

    Metsä Wood’s new birch plywood mill inaugurated in Pärnu, Estonia. The investment in the [...]

Slowing demand for Chinese wood furniture in Europe

After making gains last year, EU wood furniture imports from tropical countries and China fell in the first 6 months [...]

Positive developments on the European parquet markets

    The Board of Directors of the European Federation of the Parquet Industry (FEP) met on 20 [...]

Swiss Krono to expand in US

    A $200+ million, 250,000 square-foot expansion of the Swiss Krono plant in Barnwell, South [...]

Brazilian Ipe logs in short supply

Some of the largest exotic lumber companies in the United States ran out of much of their Ipe inventory. What [...]

Falling log prices in New Zealand

    New Zealand's export log market took a hit from the trade dispute between the US [...]

Wood products trade between China and the US slows

China’s Customs data shows that in the first half of 2018 the value of wood products trade between China [...]

Massive French softwood logs exports to China

      The European softwood logs exports to China have went up by 560% during January [...]

BSW Timber’s sawmill in Slovenia waiting for permits

    BSW Timber is currently waiting for all permits to proceed with the construction of a EUR [...]

Ghina: Wood processing industry booming in Guangdong Province

During the last few years, once with the increase in demand for wood processing products in Guangdong Province, Southeast China [...]