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Mercer international’s lumber production dips 6% in second quarter 2025

Mercer International Inc. has reported its second quarter 2025 Operating EBITDA of negative $20.9 million, a decrease from positive [...]
August 6, 2025 Latest Trends

Japan: Chugoku Mokuzai to build new sawmill with Hekotek equipment

Hekotek AS has signed a contract to supply log feeding equipment, conveyors for wood chips, sawdust, and sawn timber to [...]
August 6, 2025 Latest Trends

Canfor anticipates continued softwood lumber demand through third quarter

Canfor Corp. projects that lumber demand in North America will continue to be relatively weak throughout the third quarter of [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

Lumber prices hit a three-year high amid tariff surge and tight supply

Lumber futures surged to their highest level since 2022, driven by a steep increase in U.S. duties on Canadian [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

US updates reciprocal tariffs: implications for global wood product trade

Starting August 7, 2025, the United States will implement updated reciprocal tariffs on imported goods, with specific consequences for the [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

Germany’s sawmilling industry voices concern over reduced funding for construction initiatives

Germany’s main sawmilling body has criticised the German federal government’s “misplaced priorities” after the latter cut key building [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

Andritz resolves U.S. export control case over Russian-bound machinery

The U.S. subsidiary of Austrian industrial group Andritz has agreed to pay a civil penalty of nearly $1.6 [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

Metsä Group launches hundreds of millions in spending cuts – “The program does not include closures of production plants”

Metsä Group has launched a cost savings and performance improvement program targeting annual savings of approximately €300 million, to be [...]
August 5, 2025 Latest Trends

Estonia’s timber market stabilises in 2025 but investment uncertainty persists

Estonia’s timber market has entered a more stable phase in 2025 following years of price turbulence caused by the [...]
July 31, 2025 Latest Trends

Trump targets US lumber industry revival with increased logging, Canadian tariffs

President Donald Trump is pushing to revitalize the U.S. lumber industry, advocating for increased logging in national forests and [...]
July 31, 2025 Latest Trends