Market Analysis

Lumber prices in the US continue to drop

    US traders noted a change in the tone of the framing lumber market, and even a [...]

European construction sector becomes more interested in hardwood

The UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) released their Annual Market Review 2017-2018, together with several [...]

The European Union and Vietnam have finally signed the VPA

    On 19 October 2018, a voluntary partnership agreement (VPA) between the European Union and the Socialist [...]

The imports of wood pellets in Japan went up by 50%

The Japanese Forestry Agency announced the statistics for wood pellet supply in Japan for 2017.     Domestic [...]

Overview of the global MDF market

    The global MDF market amounted to 99.6M cubic meters in 2017, posting solid gains over [...]

Russian softwood lumber exports increase sharply in value

Russian softwood lumber exports increased sharply in the first eight months of the year, both in value and in volume [...]

EU sawn hardwood consumption forecast to remain latent

The UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) released their Annual Market Review 2017-2018, together with several [...]

Softwood lumber production in the US goes up, while Canadian output decreases

U.S. sawmills produced 20.678 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first seven months of 2018 [...]

The EU wants to begin trade arbitration with Ukraine to lift timber exports moratorium

The European Union is ready to begin commercial arbitration with Ukraine to lift a moratorium on exports of round timber [...]
October 22, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

ISC 2018: Flourishing construction in Europe drives solid financial performance in the sawmill industry

On the 11th and 12th October 2018 the 66th edition of the International Softwood Conference was held in Riga in [...]