Companies in the timber industry

Timberlink wants to invest massively at its sawmills in Australia

Timberlink has approved a AUD 100 million (71,8 million USD) upgrade program to its Australian sawmills. This investment will [...]

New CLT plant to be build in Estonia by Russian company

The Russian manufacturer of thermally modified wood ThermoHolz will build a plant for cross-laminated timber (CLT) in the special [...]

Moelven to build a new wood pellet factory

Moelven is building a new pellet factory and a new bioenergy plant in a small village Sokna located between H [...]

IKEA to enter Mexican market?

Last week, the main media of the Aztec country took for granted the arrival of IKEA, more specifically to Guadalajara [...]

Korea’s Dongwha enters Thailand’s MDF market

Dongwha Enterprise, Korea's top wood materials manufacturer has extended its reach by acquiring a manufacturing unit in Thailand.  [...]

Metsä to start production at its birch plywood mill in Pärnu, Estonia

Metsä Wood officially started up its birch plywood mill in Pärnu, Estonia. Currently there are around 65 blue-collars [...]

Weyerhaeuser’s CEO to resign in 2019

Weyerhaeuser announced that its current CEO Doyle R. Simons has elected to retire, and its board of directors has appointed [...]

Asian timber operators in Africa better placed than their European counter-parts

    A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away [...]

Chinese wood-based panels manufacturers to cease production due to environmental requirements

According to the Chinese government’s environmental policy called the “Three-Year Plan on Defending the Blue Sky” industrial enterprises [...]

10 largest Russian sawmills boost revenues in 2017

In 2017, the total revenue of the 10 biggest forest products companies in Russia amounted 339.4 billion rubles ($5 [...]