Forecast: 2020 trends in global lumber demand
Many in the industry will not remember 2019 positively. Simply put, most global markets were awash [...]
January 21, 2020
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Significant rise in German softwood lumber exports to China and U.S.
A significant surge in softwood lumber exports from Germany to China has been reported during the [...]
January 21, 2020
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Rise in New Zealand prices for exported logs
The CFR sale price for A grade logs in China remained in the mid US$120s range per m3. At [...]
January 21, 2020
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Södra adjusts the prices for pulpwood due to oversupply
The supply of pulp in Sweden and in the rest of Europe is high, which has [...]
January 20, 2020
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Austrian parquet manufacturers accused of importing illegal timber from Ukraine
Recently, WWF Austria accused four Austrian parquet manufacturers of importing illegally harvested timber from the Ukraine [...]
January 20, 2020
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Chinese log market seriously impacted by the European bark beetle crisis
The price for an A grade log in the China log market has remained around USD [...]
January 20, 2020
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2020 trends in the global lumber market
In North America at least, 2019 will be remembered as the hangover from the 2018 first [...]
January 17, 2020
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Drop in U.S. softwood lumber production for Jan.-Oct. 2019
U.S. sawmills produced 29.909 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first 10 months of 2019 [...]
January 17, 2020
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Europe is now the second largest supplier of softwood logs to China
- China is increasing importation of logs from New Zealand and Europe, while diminishing imports from North America and Russia  [...]
January 17, 2020
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Huge timber reserves in Russia’s Far East unexploited sufficiently
Almost half of the lands of the forest fund of the Russian Federation (556.2 million ha, 49%) and a [...]
January 16, 2020
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