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New mass timber facility in Canada

    Kalesnikoff Lumber announced plans for construction of a multi species mass timber manufacturing facility in South [...]

Kronospan makes record profits in Latvia

  Kronsopan Riga, the company's Latvian subsidiary, has achieved record profits in its financial year (October 2017/September [...]

Georgia-Pacific to invest US$30 million in Rome lumber facility

    Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific announced it will spend approximately $30 million to purchase and install new [...]

European biomass sector continues steady growth

According to the recently released Eurobarometer, in 2017 the European solid biomass sector came close to 100 Mtep (Million tons [...]

New Zealand: Export prices of logs impacted by rising ocean freight costs

At Wharf Gate (AWG) prices for logs delivered to ports around New Zealand decreased on average -NZ$5 per JASm3 [...]

Italy boosts its wood pellets imports in 2018

After a 9% increase in 2017, wood pellets imported by Italy showed a much more consistent trend growth in 2018 [...]

San Group starts construction of a new sawmill in Canada

    B.C.-based San Group is starting construction on a new mill and associated re-manufacturing [...]
March 26, 2019 Latest Trends / Sawmilling / ...North America

Japan’s wood pellet hunger to be fed with N. American supplies

    Japan's consumption of wood pellets continues to increase significantly in the wake of the Fukushima [...]

Arauco posts sharp fall in EBITDA for Q4/2018

Arauco´s fourth quarter net income was US$70.1 million, a decrease of 68.2% compared to the third [...]

Chinese importers in search for low-quality logs

    Total softwood log stocks increased across China during the Lunar New Year holiday period to just [...]