Companies in the timber industry

West Fraser reports drop in lumber production

    West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. has reported its third quarter 2019 results:     [...]

Norbord to curtail one OSB production line in Georgia, US

Norbord Inc. announced that effective mid-November, it will indefinitely curtail production on Line 1 of its two-line oriented [...]

Granuul Invest completes acquisition of former German Pellets assets in Texas

Acquisition of the Texas Pellets pellet manufacturing plant offers a possibility to increase the group´s production capacity up to [...]

ISC 2019: Bark beetle crisis in the European lumber market expected to continue for years

    Disruption in European lumber market caused by log glut from bark beetle infestation is expected to [...]

India, a growing market for US hardwood producers

According to the latest statistics, U.S. hardwood lumber shipped to India from January to August of this year increased [...]

Kronospan plans a new chipboard plant in Russia

    Peter Kindl, founder of Kronospan Holding Ltd, attended a working meeting with regional governor of the [...]

Prefabricated wood construction to make new leap in Chile

    The Chilean company E2E is a joint venture between Arauco and the Belgian company Etex. Its [...]

BC company signs major agreement to export wood pellets to Japan

A British Columbia company has signed an agreement to provide 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets to fuel a biomass [...]

Record area of FSC certified forests in Russia

In October 2019, the area of ​​forests certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and the number of FSC certificates for [...]

The bark beetle infestation hits the French softwood market

    What volumes of wood will be harvested in France in 2019? Difficult to answer this question [...]