Market Analysis

Market opportunities in Egypt for American softwood producers

    Aiming to throw the spotlight on the potential and importance of Egypt as a market for [...]

While lumber sales in the US go down, prices set new highs

    Framing lumber sales in the US started to descend, as compared to the last two weeks [...]

Chinese softwood lumber and logs imports tripled during the last 10 years

Softwood logs and softwood lumber imports to China have more than tripled in ten years with lumber volumes surpassing logs [...]
June 4, 2018 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / China

Softwood logs exports from New Zealand reached record volumes in March

    New Zealand's exports of softwood logs reached record volumes during March 2018. The shipments to [...]

Austrian wood pellets prices descend in May

Prices for Austrian wood pellets went on a descending path during May, as it was also the case for Germany [...]

Sabah to ban timber exports

Sabah's chief minister, Shafie Apdal, announced that he will instruct the state Forestry Department to immediately impose a ban [...]

Hardwood logs exports from Europe on the rise

EU hardwood log export hike continues In 2017, total EU hardwood log exports were 2.8 million tonnes, up 15 [...]

Oak market in EU countries is under a lot of tension

EU countries hit hardest by the Ukrainian ban, says the European Organisation of Sawmill Industries (EOS), are Romania, Slovakia, Poland [...]

Wood products trade between China and the US is on a downward trend

    According to the data from China’s Customs the value of wood products trade between China [...]

New opportunities for the Dutch wood pellets market

The Dutch Government is currently subsidizing the co-firing of biomass. To support small landowners, the Dutch legislation provides some [...]