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Forest industry in Germany targets pact to mitigate climate damage

    A comprehensive "pact for the forest" is needed to get the damage caused by drought and [...]
September 5, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Europe

List of new tariffs against US wood products exports to China

U.S. hardwood lumber, logs and veneer exports are among the products impacted in a new round of tariffs announced [...]

July roundwood prices in Finland

As usual, the roundwood trade in Finland slowed down in July. Roundwood purchases included in the statistics amounted to 1 [...]

India: Latest prices for teak, plywood and sawnwood

    Latest prices for Indian teak, plywood and sawnwood - 1-15 August 2019     [...]

Swedish softwood logs prices keep on going down

In the second quarter of 2019, according to the Swedish statistics, softwood logs prices in Sweden continued to fall, although [...]

China: MDF prices on the rise

Recently, the increasing intensity of environmental supervision has caused wood-based panel manufacturers in Shandong and Hebei to fall into [...]

Arauco’s particleboard operations in St. Stephens, Canada to cease by the end of 2019

Arauco North America has informed employees that particleboard operations will end in St. Stephen, Canada by the end of 2019 [...]

Price recovery for New Zealand’s logs exports to China

New Zealand log prices in China have improved after slumping earlier in the year, restoring a little confidence to the [...]

Slowdown in forest activity affects pellet producers in North America

Follow-through from unstoppable demand for solid wood products at the end of 2017 lead to robust lumber sales through [...]

Wood starts to replace concrete in the global construction industry

For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]