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US lumber prices start to drop after weeks of growth

After several weeks of consistent growth, the US lumber prices fell quite considerably last week. On average, lumber prices fell [...]

Euroconstruct: Growth of European construction sector expected to slow in the next years

European construction output is forecasted to increase by less than 2% in 2019, and by less than 1.5 percentage [...]

Plywood production in Malaysia threatened by declining log supplies and rising costs

    The media in Sarawak recently highlighted the impact declining log production and rising production costs are [...]

Canfor announces new production curtailments

    Canfor Corporation announced further capacity reductions at two of its British Columbia sawmills with an indefinite [...]

Rising European trend in wood pellet production continues

    With a production of about 16.9 mmt in 2018, about fifty percent of global production [...]

Stora Enso plans capacity increase in CLT and construction beam mills

    Stora Enso has initiated feasibility studies for a possible cross laminated timber (CLT) unit in connection [...]

Germany: Price of wood pellets continues to fall in June

The price of wood pellets in Germany fell again slightly compared to the previous month of June by 1.73 [...]

U.S. sawmills rise lumber production; fall in Canadian output

Softwood lumber production by U.S. sawmills in the first four months of 2019 was 11.718 billion board ft [...]

Swedish sawlog prices on the rise in Q2/2019

    The second quarter of 2019 shows rising sawlog prices in Sweden on a yearly basis. Pine [...]

Global wood pellets demand expected to be driven by Asia in the next 10 years

Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]