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Central/West Africa: Higher prices for logs

Reports from Cameroon say that buyers for the Chinese market are not accepting the new and higher asking prices for [...]

Enviva and Japanese company sign 10-year contract for wood pellets supply

Enviva Partners LP has released the company's Q4/2017 financial results on the 22nd of February and announced it [...]

Tropical imports from the EU declined in 2017

    European timber businesses suggest a range of factors that may explain the apparent dichotomy between good [...]
March 5, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Swedish pine is explored as a great material for the future

Pine appears to be the material of the future and is a wood species that can be expressed in many [...]

Canfor Corp. builds new $120 million sawmill in the US

Canfor Corporation will continue the construction of a US$ 120 million worth sawmill in Washington, Ga., while the softwood lumber [...]

Dieffenbacher expects record-setting wood-based panel plants in 2018

Dieffenbacher anticipates 2018 as one of its busiest and most significant years ever based on the completion of record-setting [...]

Overview of tropical species availability on the EU market

Looking at individual species and products, importers in several EU countries, report particularly good demand for sapele in 2017, with [...]
February 28, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Georgia-Pacific invests $135 million in softwood lumber production plant

Georgia‐Pacific announced on the 20th of February that the company will build a new softwood lumber production facility in [...]

Finnish electricity company opens 92MW wood pellet plant

Finnish electricity company Helen, has opened a new 92MW biomass plant in Helsinki. The plant is the largest pellet-fired [...]

Chinese flooring sales up by 5% in 2017

According to the flooring Committee, China National Forestry Forest Industry Association (CNFPIA), China's wood and bamboo flooring sales in [...]