July roundwood prices in Finland
As usual, the roundwood trade in Finland slowed down in July. Roundwood purchases included in the statistics amounted to 1 [...]
September 4, 2019
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Swedish softwood logs prices keep on going down
In the second quarter of 2019, according to the Swedish statistics, softwood logs prices in Sweden continued to fall, although [...]
September 2, 2019
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China: MDF prices on the rise
Recently, the increasing intensity of environmental supervision has caused wood-based panel manufacturers in Shandong and Hebei to fall into [...]
September 2, 2019
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Price recovery for New Zealand’s logs exports to China
New Zealand log prices in China have improved after slumping earlier in the year, restoring a little confidence to the [...]
August 29, 2019
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Slowdown in forest activity affects pellet producers in North America
Follow-through from unstoppable demand for solid wood products at the end of 2017 lead to robust lumber sales through [...]
August 29, 2019
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Wood starts to replace concrete in the global construction industry
For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]
August 29, 2019
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New rules for US hardwood logs exports to the European Union
The new EU implementing directive 2019/523 of 21 March 2019 (available on request) concerns the protection measures against the [...]
August 28, 2019
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Vietnam expands wood pellet exports to Japan
Pellet imports to Japan from Vietnam jumped 219.6% y-o-y in first half of 2019 to 420.9 [...]
August 28, 2019
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Investigation of padauk export from Congo to EU impacts prices
In early July Belgian Customs blocked the release of a shipment of padouk sawnwood dispatched from Gabon. The Belgian authorities [...]
August 28, 2019
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Germany: Price overview for wood products
Producer prices for commercial wood products in Germany continued to decline in June. While there is [...]
August 28, 2019
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