Market Analysis

German timber trade largely affected by the second lockdown

The second lockdown from December means considerable cuts for the timber retail trade and for many companies sales losses of [...]

Long-term outlook positive for the global forestry machinery market

    The global forestry machinery market, currently valued at around $4 billion, is anticipated to pass $6 [...]

UK: Brexit causes a shortage of sawn timber and building materials

The supply chain in the United Kingdom is under pressure from a combination of high demand for materials caused by [...]

Weyerhaeuser tops list of US softwood lumber producers

    Softwood lumber producers had a wild ride in 2020. From major cutbacks in the spring in [...]

The price of wood pellets in C. Europe on the rise in January 2021

As usual for the middle of the heating season, the price of wood pellets has increased in Central and Western [...]

Sweden: Roundwood price evolution in 2020

    2020 roundwood prices in Sweden have decreased as compared to 2019. The price of pulpwood decreased [...]

US DoC determines China dumped wood mouldings and millwork

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of wood mouldings and [...]

New Zealand’s wood product exports to China now tariff-free

  The upgrade will also mean that 99% of New Zealand’s nearly NZ$3 billion wood and paper [...]

BSW Timber to postpone sawmill construction plans in Slovenia

The British BSW Timber Group, the leading wood processing company in the United Kingdom, planned to build a large sawmill [...]