Changing plywood market shares in EU imports
EU plywood import trade have varied very widely between different products types over the last four years. Tropical hardwood plywood [...]
March 15, 2015
Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...China / Europe
Canadian sawmills continue to expand in the U.S.
Canadian and U.S. softwood lumber producers reported modest gains in 2014 as lumber demand continues to rise slowly (but [...]
March 9, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / North America
Cross-laminated timber arrives to America
A super-strong engineered wood product popular in Europe, known as cross-laminated timber (CLT), is coming to America under [...]
March 9, 2015
Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...North America
Chinese wood products industry continues to expand in 2014
In 2014, China's forest products industry output value and trade value reached US$ 848 billion and US$ 138 billion [...]
February 5, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / China
Japan to run wood biomass in power generation facilities
In Japan, after FIT (feed in tariff) system was introduced in July 2012, many plans of wood biomass power generation [...]
January 19, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy
Redwood imports in China rise by 92%
According to China Customs, between January and October 2014 China's redwood imports totalled 1.85 million cubic metres valued [...]
January 15, 2015
Market Analysis / Sawmilling / ...China
EU laminate flooring markets go up last year
According to a conservative extrapolation for 2014, the 21 ordinary member companies of the EPLF, i.e. the European producers [...]
January 8, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood-based Panels / Europe
China is making massive investments in foreign countries
Chinese enterprises have invested US$90 billion in 5,090 foreign companies in 156 countries, representing a year on YOY [...]
June 25, 2014
Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East
US wood pellet exports have doubled due to high European demand
Wood pellet exports from the United States nearly doubled last year, from 1.6 million short tons (approximately 22 trillion [...]
May 17, 2014
Market Analysis / Wood Energy / ...Europe / North America
Schweighofer, Egger and Kronospan have most of the control over the Romanian timber market
Schweighofer, Kronospan and Egger are three Austrian companies with wood processing operations in Romania. Their cumulated business exceeded EUR 1 [...]
May 8, 2014
Companies in the timber industry / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Europe
