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Dropping Chinese demand cause major setback in Finland’s softwood lumber exports

    he Finnish softwood lumber exports to the world decreased by -4% during January - May 2018, as [...]
August 14, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe

Wood products exports from Vietnam amount to US$5 billion in January-July 2018

    The export revenue of Vietnamese wood and wooden products was estimated at US$4.8 billion [...]

Prices for roundwood in Estonia significantly higher than in 2017

    In June 2018, the prices for roundwood in Estonia are significantly higher as compared to the [...]

Brazilian wood-based products’ value went 23% up in June

In June 2018 the total value of Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) increased 23% compared [...]

Tropical sawnwood rising its share on the European market

Recent reports on European economic and construction sector health and outlook make for almost exclusively positive reading. After the EU [...]

Softwood logs exports from Europe to China excedeed those of softwood lumber

      Due to a massive boost of exports from France, total European softwood logs deliveries [...]

Lumber prices in the US went down at the beginning of August

Framing lumber prices in US spiraled downward, as mills searched for trading levels to little avail. Deep double-digit cuts [...]

China’s wood companies face difficulties in the US market

    Data from China Customs shows that in 2017 total value of China’s wood products trade [...]

Germany: Record wood pellets production in the first half of 2018

    In the first half of 2018, around 1.18 million tonnes of wood pellets were produced [...]