Market Analysis

Euroconstruct: Growth of European construction sector expected to slow in the next years

European construction output is forecasted to increase by less than 2% in 2019, and by less than 1.5 percentage [...]

Plywood production in Malaysia threatened by declining log supplies and rising costs

    The media in Sarawak recently highlighted the impact declining log production and rising production costs are [...]

Rising European trend in wood pellet production continues

    With a production of about 16.9 mmt in 2018, about fifty percent of global production [...]

Bark beetle logging doubled in Czech forests

In the first half of 2019, the number of bark beetle logged wood in the Czech State Forests more than [...]
July 29, 2019 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Germany: Price of wood pellets continues to fall in June

The price of wood pellets in Germany fell again slightly compared to the previous month of June by 1.73 [...]

U.S. sawmills rise lumber production; fall in Canadian output

Softwood lumber production by U.S. sawmills in the first four months of 2019 was 11.718 billion board ft [...]

Swedish sawlog prices on the rise in Q2/2019

    The second quarter of 2019 shows rising sawlog prices in Sweden on a yearly basis. Pine [...]

Global wood pellets demand expected to be driven by Asia in the next 10 years

Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]

Investment flows in global furniture industry starting to change

The recent globalisation trend, which has been so much a feature of the industry and contributed to the rapid expansion [...]

Vietnam takes benefit from the US/China trade war

    In the first three months of 2019 Vietnam’s wood product exports were valued at around [...]