Wood Industry Prices

Wood pellet crisis in France: prices double, strong demand causes supply difficulties

    Faced with soaring energy prices, more and more French are investing in boilers or pellet stoves [...]

Softwood log prices in Estonia start to fall from absolute records

    The large-scale war started by Russia in Ukraine and the creation of an energy crisis [...]

N. American lumber futures bounce back as Canada cuts output

     West Fraser shutters 2.5% of its North America capacity     Lumber prices [...]

U.S. imposed a 35% tariff on Russian wood products

Starting from July 27, the United States imposed a 35% tariff on 570 items of goods imported from Russia, including [...]

Wood-pellet market booms amid Ukraine war

The wood-pellet market is on fire.    War has cut off the supply of compressed-wood [...]

B.C.’s big 3 lumber giants still making good profits

    B.C.’s big three forestry giants had lumber and other wood product sales of $6 [...]

Roundwood production in EU could decrease sharply due to biodiversity strategy

If less wood is harvested in European forests to protect biodiversity, this will lead to global shifts in wood production [...]

North American softwood lumber prices fall to a new low this year

     Softwood lumber prices continued their downtrend on Wednesday, falling 5% to a new 2022 low of [...]

Unprecedented period of change in European wooden furniture sector

    The last two and half years, marked from the start of 2020 by the Covid-19 [...]

Belgium: Worries about availability of wood; prices on the rise

Wood traders in Belgium are currently experiencing an unusually high demand for firewood. The reason for this is the high [...]