Market Analysis

Current trends in the Russian wood product industry

    The Russian wood product industry is one of the world’s most dynamic ones thanks to [...]

Record logging in the Czech Republic due to the bark beetle epidemics

In 2018, logging in the Czech Republic increased to 25.7 million m3 . That is the highest value in the [...]

Vietnam to block Chinese relabeled wood products exported to the US

Vietnam has said it would crackdown on goods of Chinese origin illegally relabeled “Made in Vietnam” by exporters seeking to [...]

Chinese tariffs hit the US forest supply chain

The US trade and tariff war with China that has been reignited in recent weeks is directly impacting American log [...]

Canada appeals against WTO’s April ruling in softwood lumber dispute with US

    Canada has appealed against a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruling in a case it lost [...]

Green plywood solution developed in China

    A "non-added formaldehyde" polyurethane adhesive plywood continuous press automatic production line solution has been developed [...]

Brazilian plywood producers worried by fall in exports

    Exports of Brazilian plywood to the United States increased by more than 30 percent between 2017 [...]

US softwood lumber prices continue to fall in June 2019

    Despite a growing list of mill curtailments, prices of framing lumber sagged under the weight of [...]

Softwood lumber deliveries from EU to US nearly double

          European softwood lumber exports to the USA continued to rise [...]

Overview of current sawmill production curtailments in BC

Hardly a week goes by that we’re not hearing of new sawmill curtailments or closures in B.C.  For [...]