Companies in the timber industry

Belgium: Hout-Bois van Steenberge takes over van Hoorebeke Timber

Van Hoorebeke Timber will be taken over by sector colleague Hout-Bois van Steenberge from Zottegem. Ghent-based Van Hoorebeke [...]

UPM’s new pulp mill in Uruguay is still waiting for a start-up permit

UPM's new pulp mill in Uruguay has reached technical readiness to start production, the company informs. The Paso de [...]

Kährs to lower production in Europe for Q1,Q2/2023

Kährs is preparing and adapting its operations, with a focus on cost control and capacity adjustments in steps, to [...]

Sonae Arauco invests €100m in Germany

Supplier of engineered wood products Sonae Arauco will be investing more than €100m in its Meppen industrial unit in Emsland [...]

Canfor to permanently close its Houston sawmill at the end of this month

The last log is set to be processed at Canfor’s mill at its Houston sawmill on March 31, setting [...]

Hekotek to supply new log sorting line to Versowood

Hekotek AS has signed a contract for the supply of a log sorting line to Versowood Oy in Finland.  [...]

An Estonian wood processing company goes bankrupt

    An Estonian wood processing company Holzinvest OÜ went bankrupt in the city of Pärnu.  [...]

Pfeifer achieves production record at Chanovice sawmill in the Czech Republic

Since taking over the Chanovice sawmill in 2016, Pfeifer has invested more than 100 million euros in the modernization of [...]

Södra’s new CLT facility inaugurated – tenfold increase in production capacity

Södra’s new cross-laminated timber (CLT) facility was inaugurated yesterday (March 15) on the west coast of Sweden [...]

Lack of fiber determines Resolute Forest Products to cease operations at one sawmill

Due to a lack of fibre, Resolute Forest Products has suspended sawmill operations at the Saint-Thomas-Didyme mill until [...]