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Stora Enso to establish a new Forest division

    Stora Enso announced establishment of a new Forest division to manage the recently acquired Swedish forest [...]

Germany: Declining sawlog prices due to large volumes of damaged wood

Large volumes of storm and insect damaged trees in Germany have resulted in an oversupply of logs and declining sawlog [...]

Softwood lumber exports from Europe to the US have doubled this year

    European softwood lumber exports to the USA almost doubled in the first seven months of the [...]

Tolko announces it will reduce stud lumber capacity by 20%

Tolko announced that it is implementing a flexible operating footprint at its Soda Creek and Armstrong stud lumber mills. This [...]

Lumber prices in the US on the rise this autumn

Compared to historical trends, this week’s WSPF KD 2×4 #2&Btr price is up +$11 relative to [...]

Russia’s wood industry increased lumber and pellets production

Over the past eight months of this year, the Russian domestic timber industry has been showing steady growth in almost [...]

China: Prices for imported logs down sharply

    China’s log imports in the first half of 2019 totalled 29.56 million cubic metres [...]

Russia: RFP Group plans to double lumber production capacity; to boost pellet output

    Over the next four years, one of the leaders in the forest industry in the Far [...]

Rising pellet prices in Germany

    The pellet price in Germany rose by 1.4%  in September compared to the previous month [...]

India: Currrent prices for domestic and imported wood products

    Latest prices for Indian teak, plywood and sawnwood - 16-31 August 2019     [...]