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EU tropical wood import value at highest level for a decade

    In the first three months of this year, the value of EU imports of tropical wood [...]

Production at Binderholz solid wood panel plant to start at the end of the year

    At the beginning of August 2021, construction of the Binderholz solid wood panel plant II began [...]

Ante Group plans additional focus on UK market

    German sawmiller the Ante Group is planning a fresh focus on the UK and Ireland timber [...]

Russia plans measures to support the timber industry in the context of sanctions

    At present, Russia's forest products industry is facing a series of consequences caused by EU [...]

Potlatchdeltic buys rival CatchMark for more than US$600 million

    Potlatchdeltic Corp., a real-estate investment trust focused on owning timberland, has agreed to buy rival [...]

Austria: Global wood shortage led to rise in logging and prices

An average price of 100.48 euros for a cubic meter of spruce logs (an increase of 38 percent compared [...]

Vietnam’s Mekong Wood orders full MDF line from Siempelkamp

      The Vietnamese Mekong Wood MDF Joint Stock Company has placed an order for a [...]

Plans to expand Homanit’s wood-based panels production are advancing in Lithuania

Germany’s fibreboard maker Homanit is advancing plans to ramp up the company’s production capacities in eastern Europe with [...]

Lumber market cools down as renovation boom is likely over

    Lumber prices have hit record highs, fueled by the war in Ukraine, but now the market [...]

N. America: Lumber buyers slow orders, wood is piling up at mills

North American lumber prices have come crashing down in a new sign of how rising interest rates are deflating markets [...]