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The EU wooden furniture manufacturers show great interest to “source locally”

There seems to be a growing preference in the EU market to ‘source local’, particularly in the design and specifier [...]
April 27, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Wood Furniture / Europe

Austrian softwood lumber prices regress during March

In March, the prices for softwood lumber in Austria declined slightly compared to February. The decline is of 1-2 [...]

Global MDF market reports robust growth

    In 2017, the global MDF market amounted to 96.4 million m3, posting solid gains over [...]

US dismisses new investigation on China plywood duties

On February 15, four US plywood producers filed a petition at the US Department of Commerce complaining about the plywood [...]

Roundwood prices in Estonia on an upward trend

Roundwood prices in Estonia have risen significantly in February 2018, from December 2017. In January 2018, the price continued to [...]

Bergs Timber agrees buy Norvik’s timber operations in Baltics and UK

Bergs Timber signed an agreement with Bergs Timber’s main owner, Norvik, Norway, acquiring a number of companies within the [...]

European Commission decides to further investigate IKEA’s potential tax fraud in the Netherlands

The European Commission published on the 27th of March the nonconfidential version of its decision to open a formal investigation [...]

Siempelkamp to deliver new particleboard plant for VMG in Lithuania

Kalipedos Madiena (VMG) orders the complete plant with Siempelkamp in Krefeld, Germany. The new plant, which will be located in [...]

Roundwood demand and prices in Finland go up

Thanks to the positive economic situation and investments, roundwood use by the Finnish forest industry will break the 70 million [...]

EU domestic furniture sector sales recovers in 2017

The biggest shift in the EU furniture sector in recent years has come in the degree of market self-sufficiency [...]