No impact on retail prices due to BC curtailments
Despite several curtailments for different BC lumber producers, the impacts of them have yet to be felt in the retail [...]
October 23, 2019
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Vietnamese Donghwa to buy a new Siempelkamp MDF press
Dongwha, Asia's largest producer of engineered wood from Korea, is securing the "longest MDF press [...]
October 23, 2019
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China tariffs cut deep into the US hardwood industry
Prior to the trade and retaliatory tariff battle between the U.S. and China in mid-2018, the U.S [...]
October 22, 2019
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BC’s forestry companies face weak wood markets, high log costs and US lumber duties
B.C. forestry companies are set to report lacklustre third-quarter financial results as tough market [...]
October 22, 2019
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Challenging market conditions lower profits for Swedish Setra
Swedish wood products company Setra has reported an operating profit of SEK 95 (287) million for the period January-September [...]
October 21, 2019
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European companies gather to promote timber as replacement of steel and concrete in buildings
Armed with €10m in EU funding, a consortium of 21 European companies and organisations has formed to try and make [...]
October 21, 2019
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Trump administration postpones tariff hike on Chinese imports
President Trump said the government had reach a “phase one” trade agreement with China and won [...]
October 18, 2019
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Schweighofer says that high prices for logs in Romania makes the company uncompetitive
Today we pay 86 euros (per cubic meter of logs used to make the highest quality [...]
October 17, 2019
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Enviva to build a huge wood pellet plant in Alabama
Enviva, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, is to build a new production plant in Alabama, US. The [...]
October 17, 2019
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Stora Enso to curtail a sawmill in Finland
Finnish-Swedish forest industry giant Stora Enso will suspend operations for more than two months at its Uimaharju Sawmill in [...]
October 17, 2019
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