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Norvik moves closer to acquire Bergs Timber

The extraordinary general meeting of Bergs Timber AB shareholders has been called for December 27 to approve the SEK1.54bn [...]
December 6, 2023 Latest Trends

Weyerhaeuser to invest $96.2 million to modernize and decarbonize Louisiana sawmill

Weyerhaeuser has announced it will invest $96.2 million to modernize and decarbonize its sawmill in Louisiana, USA.  The [...]
December 6, 2023 Latest Trends

New Zealand log export prices rise in November

The November AWG prices for New Zealand's exported logs increased an average of $12 per JASm3 from October prices [...]
December 6, 2023 Latest Trends

China’s log & lumber import markets may be worse than you think

China’s consumption levels are completely stalled from a construction market in chaos. Consequently, it is going to take until [...]
December 5, 2023 Latest Trends

UPM upgrades Korkeakoski sawmill in Finland

UPM invests nearly Euro 10 million in the modernization of the Korkeakoski sawmill in Finland. A new split saw supplied [...]
December 5, 2023 Latest Trends

Price of pellets in Germany in free fall

In some places, pellet prices fall below 300 euros per ton. That hasn't happened for two years. On average [...]
December 5, 2023 Latest Trends

Italian sawmills in trouble, revenues and margins down

Until the autumn of last year traders and producers would have been willing to buy wood at basically any price [...]
December 5, 2023 Latest Trends

International Trade Commission rules in favor of duties on Canadian softwood lumber

The U.S. International Trade Commission has no plans to revoke the existing combined countervailing and antidumping duties totaling roughly [...]
December 5, 2023 Latest Trends

Drax to curtail Houston pellet plant due to Canfor sawmill closure

Drax Canada's Houston pellet plant is producing its final batch of pellets for 2023 up until Dec. 7 after [...]
December 1, 2023 Latest Trends

Sweden: Forest machines company Rottne Industri AB cuts jobs as demand slows

Rottne Industri AB has announced that it will be making necessary workforce adjustments due to the impact of global economic [...]
December 1, 2023 Latest Trends