Market Analysis

Exports of wood products from Ghana up 24% in the first five months

In the first four months of 2018 Ghana’s wood product exports totalled 115,225 cu.m compared to 92 [...]

Switzerland: Wood pellets prices rising despite heat wave

Curiously, despite the wave of heat that came across Europe these weeks, the prices of wood pellets in Switzerland increased [...]

Dropping Chinese demand cause major setback in Finland’s softwood lumber exports

    he Finnish softwood lumber exports to the world decreased by -4% during January - May 2018, as [...]
August 14, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China / Europe

Wood products exports from Vietnam amount to US$5 billion in January-July 2018

    The export revenue of Vietnamese wood and wooden products was estimated at US$4.8 billion [...]

Prices for roundwood in Estonia significantly higher than in 2017

    In June 2018, the prices for roundwood in Estonia are significantly higher as compared to the [...]

Brazilian wood-based products’ value went 23% up in June

In June 2018 the total value of Brazilian exports of wood-based products (except pulp and paper) increased 23% compared [...]

Tropical sawnwood rising its share on the European market

Recent reports on European economic and construction sector health and outlook make for almost exclusively positive reading. After the EU [...]

Softwood logs exports from Europe to China excedeed those of softwood lumber

      Due to a massive boost of exports from France, total European softwood logs deliveries [...]

Lumber prices in the US went down at the beginning of August

Framing lumber prices in US spiraled downward, as mills searched for trading levels to little avail. Deep double-digit cuts [...]