Germany’s sawnwood demand at very high levels
Germany is Europe’s largest economy with GDP likely to have exceeded US$4 trillion for the first time in [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood Furniture / Wood-based Panels / Europe
New Zealand, top softwood logs exporter for China in 2018
China had another record year of softwood log imports in 2018, when over 40 million m3 of logs landed at [...]
April 9, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Australia and Pacific Region / China / Europe / Russia
Tropical logs imports in Europe go up by 11% in 2018
After a sharp downturn in 2017, EU imports of tropical logs recovered some lost ground in 2018 but were still [...]
April 2, 2019
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Italy boosts its wood pellets imports in 2018
After a 9% increase in 2017, wood pellets imported by Italy showed a much more consistent trend growth in 2018 [...]
March 26, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe
Japan’s wood pellet hunger to be fed with N. American supplies
Japan's consumption of wood pellets continues to increase significantly in the wake of the Fukushima [...]
March 26, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East / North America
Chinese importers in search for low-quality logs
Total softwood log stocks increased across China during the Lunar New Year holiday period to just [...]
March 26, 2019
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UK’s share of total EU imports of timber products falling
There are significant shifts on-going in destinations for EU imports of timber products. After emerging [...]
March 14, 2019
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US imports of China’s hardwood plywood fall by 76%
US imports of hardwood plywood increased in volume by 11% in November but are still down [...]
February 27, 2019
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EU plywood importers face the risk of oversupply
EU plywood importers report that in the latter part of the year, the plywood market started to turn around and [...]
February 25, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood-based Panels / Europe
Chinese lumber imports on a downward trend
China's demand for logs and lumber grew in 2018 as compared to 2017, but most of the gains were [...]
February 22, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / China
