Forestry

January 2019 prices from China’s imports of lumber

    he table above contain the latest price data of different imported lumber assortments at several Chinese [...]

India is a more and more attractive destination for American hardwood

A booming furniture market is expected to drive up demand for American hardwoods in India this year. With the total [...]

Hardwood lumber included in the U.S.-China “Phase One” trade deal

The U.S. and China formalised a limited trade agreement today, signalling a truce in the nearly two-year trade [...]

Sweden: Martinsons to increase lumber production by half a million cubic meters

    The Swedish sawmill and building materials manufacturer Martinsons aims to increase the production capacity of its [...]

Indonesian forestry industry forecasts boost in exports in 2020

    Indonesian’s wood products exports totalled US$11.6 billion in 2019, a 4 per cent [...]

Climate change debate threatens the European hardwood market

Headline figures for sawn hardwood consumption in Europe show that demand has been flat for the last decade. However, these [...]

Global softwood lumber production is projected to grow by 1.6% in 2020

    In reviewing 2019, where Europe is grouped as “one region,” the five largest producers are Europe [...]

European woodworking industry ‘lies at the heart of the circular bioeconomy’

The European Confederation of Woodworking Industries (CEI-Bois), the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry (EOS) and the European Panel [...]

European bark beetle crisis has multiple implications in global lumber markets

A new wildcard in the global supply of lumber, as well as log exports, is the rapid expansion of the [...]

B.C. sawmills hope that the horrible 2019 won’t repeat in 2020

For B.C. sawmills and loggers, 2019 was an annus horribilis that they can only hope is not repeated in [...]