Market Analysis

Special year for the Dutch wood industry

    The year 2021 was a good year for the Dutch wood industry. Without the corona problems [...]

B.C. lumber producers on a roller-coaster ride due to price fluctuations

BC Lumber producers are accustomed to boom and bust cycles, but the past two years have been surprisingly volatile for [...]

European wood processing industry: Volatility remains in 2022, but without extremes

    The turbulent year 2021 with its price records, logistics bottlenecks and the trend reversal in the [...]

Latvia: Exports of wood products hit record value due to booming prices

The Latvian timber industry was the sector with the fastest growth in export value last year, recovering from a difficult [...]

UK: Stability returns to timber supply chain

    The UK’s leading timber industry representative body – the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) – says the industry [...]

2022 North American lumber markets outlook

    It’s been a wild ride for wood products, particularly lumber, over the past two years [...]

Germany’s sawmill industry expects market volatility to continue in 2022

2021 was a year of change in many ways. Although the pandemic remained with its effects on large parts of [...]

Latest mega takeover in the European sawmilling industry to be completed in Q1/2022

      The latest mega takeover in the European sawmilling industry – Mayr-Melnhof Holz (MMH) Holding [...]

Record prices of logs hit Poland’s sawmills

    Industry organizations and entrepreneurs in Poland are sounding the alarm over log prices, which are currently [...]

Softwood timber surplus in the US South expected to fall, prices likely to increase

The large softwood timber surplus in the US South is likely to diminish over the next decade, resulting in regional [...]