US South sawmills the most profitable in the world
The US South was the highest margin sawmill region in North America – a place it has held since 2008 – as [...]
November 29, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Africa / Asia & Middle East / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / North America / Russia
Largest cross-laminated timber building in the US to be build in Chicago
Hines, the international real estate firm, in a joint venture with Diversified Real Estate Capital and Big Bay Realty, announced [...]
November 29, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood Construction / North America
Chinese demand drives up New Zealand’s log prices
Increased demand for New Zealand logs coming from China leads the foresters to take advantage of the strong log prices [...]
November 28, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Australia and Pacific Region / China
Italian woodworking technology performs well this year
The Italian woodworking technology has registered very good results for the second quarter of 2017, along [...]
November 27, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Woodworking Machinery / Europe
Finland sawmills to target the Chinese market
Finland now ranks among the top five global exporters of softwood lumber. The Finnish Sawmills Industries association forecasts that production [...]
November 7, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe
European companies boost investments in CLT
The global cross-laminated timber market experiences continuous growth, due to market advances from mechanical properties, which make the product [...]
October 29, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Construction / Europe
North American OSB prices rose sharply in the last year
The price of OSB in North America increased by 4.4% in September and has risen 19% and 38% since [...]
October 20, 2017
Latest Trends / Wood Industry Prices / ...Industry Prices / Wood-based Panels / North America
Overview of this year’s International Softwood Conference
On the 5th and 6th October 2017 the 65th edition of the International Softwood Conference was [...]
October 15, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / North America / Russia
Vietnam’s wood product exports might hit $8 billion in 2017
Vietnam's exports of wood and timber products is forecast to reach US$8 billion in [...]
October 8, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East
Japanese wood pellets imports up by almost 50% in 2016
In 2016, Japan’s imports of wood pellets increased 49 percent from the previous year to 347 thousand MT. [...]
September 13, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
