Forestry

Resolute Forest to acquire Conifex Timber’s 3 U.S. sawmills

    Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced it will acquire Conifex Timber Inc. 's three U.S. sawmills [...]

Worldwide output of wood products is at 70-year high

    The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood [...]

Vietnam’s wood products exports to hit US$11.5 billion this year

According to figures from the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VTFPA), Vietnam’s wood exports value in 2019 is [...]

Softwood lumber production in N. America on a downward trend

    U.S. sawmills produced 26.616 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first [...]

China’s current wood processing industry capacity- short analysis

The output value of China’s timber processing and wood products industries in 2018 was RMB1.3 trillion, accounting for [...]

US loggers seek relief from sharp drop in China log exports

    The Carolina Loggers Association (CLA) has joined logging associations across the United States and the American [...]

World’s lumber producers with mixed performances in 3Q/2019

The financial health of the world’s lumber producers was mixed in the 3Q/19. The gross margins fell in [...]

Slight drop in U.S. lumber production

U.S. sawmills produced 26.616 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first nine months, edging down [...]

Germany: Damaged volumes from storms and bark beetle could reach 70 million m3 in 2019

As of September 2019, the estimates from 15 German states on this year’s incidence of damaged wood and the [...]