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New large player in the Swedish forest industry emerges

    Norra Skogsägarna and Norrskog plan to merge into a joint forest owners' association, which is [...]

IKEA posts record sales on booming online revenues

    IKEA reported annual sales above 40 billion euros ($44 billion) for the first time on Wednesday [...]

German sawyers’ profits booming, as forests are ravaged by bark beetle and drought

    Sales of German sawmills, planing mills and wood impregnators have increased nominally by around 33% over [...]

List of largest wood-based panel producers in China

    With a total production of 1,490,000 m3/year, Jilin Sen Workers' Forming Group Co [...]

Katerra opens the largest CLT plant in N. America

Engineered wood and building development giant Katerra's new cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam plant is now open in [...]

US softwood lumber prices continue to improve

    The mix of different types of building that make up the critical U.S. housing market [...]

US-China trade war hits Rayonier’s timber segment

Rayonier Inc.’s New Zealand and Pacific Northwest timber segments faced challenging conditions during Q2, according to the company’s [...]

France: Price of logs at auctions drop sharply due to China-US trade war

The euphoria that characterized France's oak market in 2017-2018 is now about to end. This is one of [...]

Bark beetle crisis without precedent in Europe

    The forest emergency in Europe is at the beginning of a hard battle campaign against Bark [...]

US hardwoods face weak market in China

In September, the market trend of US hardwood still shows no obvious improvement in the Chinese market.     [...]