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The European Green Deal creates new opportunities for timber

    The Green Deal, published on 11 December 2019 by the new European Commission and adopted by [...]

Coronavirus: Russia suspends timber trains to China

   Since January 31st, all railway transport between Russia and China is suspended except for Beijing-Moscow round-trip [...]

Warm winter is disrupting logging activity in Estonia

     Logging activity in Estonia is currently disrupted, due to the unusual warm and snowless winter;  [...]

Conifex completes sale of all U.S. sawmills to Resolute

    Conifex has officially closed its previously announced transaction with Resolute Forest Products for the sale of [...]

Coronavirus: IKEA to close its stores in China

In the response to the Chinese government's call for strict and effective disease control of coronavirus outbreak, IKEA Retail [...]

Coronavirus starts to shake to wood industry

    There is industry concern that if the virus were to infect more people in coastal towns [...]

Stora Enso’s sales drop in 2019

    Despite achieving a turnover in excess of €10bn, each of Stora Enso’s group operations – packaging [...]

UPM invests more than 500 million euros into a biorefinery in Germany

UPM plans to enter the biochemicals business by investing in a biorefinery at Leuna, Germany.    The [...]

Arauco closes particleboard line in US

Arauco announced it will close its particleboard line in Moncure, North Carolina, effective April 2020.     Arauco [...]

European trade shows in opening weeks of 2020 the ”Greta effect”

As usual in January, the IMM furniture fair in Cologne and the Domotex flooring show in Hamburg were key events [...]