Wood Industry Prices

Huber cancels plans to build US$ 439 million OSB plant

Leading specialty building products manufacturer Huber Engineered Woods LLC (HEW), a subsidiary of J.M. Huber Corporation, announced that, due [...]
February 15, 2023 Latest Trends / Wood Industry Prices

Prospects for the global lumber markets remain low this year

A severe recession in 2022 replaced the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 as the main force disrupting trade [...]

Swedish lumber export prices continue to fall

In December 2022, for the 6th month in a row, Swedish lumber export prices continued to fall: -3.9% compared [...]
February 14, 2023 Latest Trends / Wood Industry Prices

Germany: Softwood lumber prices between boom and crisis – forecast 2023

Despite the construction crisis and the economic crisis, wood prices in Germany have held up surprisingly well. The prices for [...]

One of the largest sawmill companies in Russia to stop all wood pellet production

ULK Group, the largest sawmill company in the Northwest of Russia, will stop all of its pellet production facilities due [...]

US lumber prices continue to fall despite low inventories

Wood-pricing service Random Lengths said that its framing-lumber composite index dropped in the last week of 2022 to [...]

Germany: Wood price evolution for 2023 still uncertain

Due to the fact that more people are using firewood during the energy crisis, prices are also rising in Rhineland [...]

Austria: Softwood log price overview in December 2022

The global economic downturn has now also reached Austria. Exports and the added value of the domestic industry shrank. Due [...]

Prices of wood pellets continue to fall in Germany

Prices for wood pellets have fallen further in November and have now been following a pronounced downward trend since the [...]

African sawmill and plywood mills feel the effects of reduced Chinese demand

The slowdown in demand in China is becoming a serious problem for operators in the region with saw and ply [...]