New Zealand log export prices face high shipping costs, despite booming China demand
International log prices are at record levels due to strong demand from China as other supply [...]
April 26, 2021
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Ligna cancels this year’s event
Perhaps it was to be expected that given the pandemic situation and the knock-on travel [...]
April 26, 2021
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Germany: Massive exports to the US put pressure on domestic wood prices
The German wood market is divided into two parts. While wood prices are only rising very slowly for German forest [...]
April 22, 2021
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EPAL pallet production rises despite Covid-19 pandemic
The European Pallet Association e.V. (EPAL) has again recorded an increase in the production of [...]
April 22, 2021
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Germany: Timber traders worried about supply shortage
The German timber trade is concerned about the increasingly tense situation on the procurement markets. Wholesalers [...]
April 20, 2021
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Raw material shortage threatens the future of the Swedish forest industry
The productive forest land used in Sweden today is not enough to meet the demand for forest raw materials, the [...]
April 20, 2021
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Record ocean freight rates threaten Vietnamese wood exports
There is no sign of lowering ocean freights, and there is still a shortage of containers [...]
April 20, 2021
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Drax completed acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy
British energy company Drax, which owns the world’s largest biomass power station, located in the United Kingdom and wood [...]
April 20, 2021
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Homag plans largest investment in its history
The Homag Group has launched the largest investment program in its corporate history. Over the next [...]
April 16, 2021
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No relief in sight for high lumber prices, conference concludes
It’s been just over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada. Since then, almost every aspect [...]
April 16, 2021
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