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Hardwood industry in US seeks opportunities in the India

The market for American hardwoods in India is on its way to fulfil its true potential over the course of [...]

Conifex to indefinitely curtail its El Dorado sawmill

  Conifex Timber Inc. announced that it is indefinitely curtailing operations at its El Dorado sawmill.   The curtailment is [...]

Lumber production in North America drops, while Canadian output goes 10% down

    U.S. sawmills produced 14.647 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first [...]

European countries to benefit from US-China trade war

The additional tariffs on US imports from China threatened by US President Donald Trump would damage China, while giving the [...]

Russia: Wood pellet suppliers and foreign buyers in H1/2019

Exports of wood pellets from Russia are growing at the highest rate in recent years. In H1/2019, exports grew [...]

Company from Vietnam to supply 300,000 t/yr of wood pellets to Japan

Eastwood Energy Joint Stock Company signed a long-term contract with CellMark, a global supply chain service company, to sell [...]

Stora Enso to close sawmill in Finland

Efora, that specialises in industrial maintenance and engineering services, owned by Finnish-Swedish forest industry company Stora Enso, begins employer [...]

Italy: Woodworking machinery orders drop sharply in Q2/2019

In the second quarter of 2019 the orders of wood and furniture machinery and equipment in Italy have decreased by [...]

Jim Pattinson makes offer to take over Canfor

Jim Pattison's Great Pacific Capital Corp. has made an offer to buy the rest of Canfor Corp. it does [...]

US to set duties of up to 230% to Chinese wooden cabinets imports

    The U.S. Commerce Department said this month it has made a preliminary determination that wooden [...]