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N. American lumber prices lose all 2021 gain, with demand dropping after record boom

North American lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction [...]

Rising trend timber prices in the Netherlands has no end in sight

    Timber prices in the Netherlands have more than doubled in recent months. It's also not [...]

Interfor completed acquisition of four US sawmills from Georgia-Pacific

Interfor Corporation has completed the previously announced transaction to acquire four sawmill operations from Georgia-Pacific, located in Bay Springs [...]

Setra invests in a new saw line

The Swedish wood industry company Setra invests in a new saw line for small diameter logs at the company's [...]

Australian softwood log exports crash due to China ban, prices stable

Australia’s average softwood log export price slumped to a reported AUDFob109/m3 in May 2021, down 16% on the [...]

Volume bark beetle damaged wood in Europe expected to be lower this year

    Over the last few years, Central European forests (but also parts of Sweden, France, and Belgium [...]

North American lumber prices fall for the 9th consecutive week

     Lumber prices notch their ninth consecutive weekly loss after a brief resurgence earlier in the week [...]

Boom in demand for sawn softwood in France; prices going up

As long as it lasts! In the softwood forests of eastern France, sawyers are crossing their fingers because the sawnwood [...]

Moelven upgrades two sawmills in Sweden

  Moelven will modernise and develop capacity at Moelven Edanesågen AB and Moelven Valåsen AB in Sweden [...]

Prices for European spruce logs in China fall sharply in June

    On the whole, June Chinese imported spruce logs fell sharply. The price of spruce/white pine [...]