Companies in the timber industry

GreenFirst Forest Products to acquire Rayonier’s lumber mills

Rayonier Advance Materials and GreenFirst Forest Products Inc. (GreenFirst), a Canadian lumber company, announced that the parties have entered into [...]

UPM sells its Jyväskylä plywood mill

    UPM sells its Jyväskylä plywood mill site and premises, located in Säynätsalo, Jyv [...]

European sawmill industry could benefit on the long term from the Covid-19 pandemic

  When in late February 2020 it became apparent that the Covid-19 virus would wreak havoc not just [...]

Södra to purchase a new sawmill

    Södra is acquiring Ture Johanssons Trävaru AB and AB Tenhults Impregneringsverk.    [...]

Cooperation project aims to boost European exports of wooden products to China

At present, China is the world's largest timber processing and wood product production base and the most important wood [...]

MDF to replace large part of unorganized plywood segment, says Greenpanel official

Greenpanel, India’s largest producer of MDF, has state-of-the-art manufacturing plants in Uttarakhand and Andhra Pradesh, with [...]

Komatsu plans to grow forestry machine sales in North America and ASEAN

Japanese machinery maker aims to boost segment's revenue by 40%    Japanese equipment maker Komatsu hopes [...]

Drax’s acquisition of Pinnacle approved by shareholders

Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. and Drax Group plc. on March 31 each announced shareholder approval for the planned acquisition of [...]

EU plywood companies report good profits, but supply a struggle

    The good news from the majority of European hardwood plywood importers interviewed March 2021 was that [...]

Metsä to start construction of its new sawmill in Finland

Metsä Fibre is building the world’s most modern sawmill in Rauma, Finland. The construction work began in May 2020 [...]