Canfor backs Jim Pattison’s billion-dollar takeover bid
A special committee of Canfor’s board has approved an almost $1-billion offer from a Jim Pattison [...]
November 11, 2019
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New Zealand’s radiata pine has market potential in Vietnam
New Zealand’s Sequal Holdings Ltd. and Vietnam’s VinaFor Saigon have inked a distribution agreement, with the former to [...]
November 11, 2019
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Cheap European logs flood the Chinese market
While log supply from North and South America in China has virtually dried up the volume from Europe continues to [...]
November 7, 2019
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Weak market for European birch timber in China
Some Chinese merchants said that this year, due to the short-term factors such as the downturn in the property [...]
November 7, 2019
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The United States supports Brazil to protect the Amazon rainforest
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo signed an agreement in Washington on [...]
November 7, 2019
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Romania to harvest 9.5 million m3 of roundwood in 2020
The Romanian national forest administration Regia Nationala a Padurilor (Romsilva) is planning to harvest 9.5m m³ of roundwood in [...]
November 7, 2019
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B.C. forestry crisis: 25% fall in export sales and a $3.4 billion loss
The crisis in British Columbia’s forestry sector that saw more than 20 sawmills close or [...]
November 7, 2019
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New Zealand’s export prices for logs pick up as demand in China rises
At Wharf Gate (AWG) prices for export logs delivered to ports around New Zealand in October [...]
November 7, 2019
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Finland: Export prices for pine and spruce sawnwood expected to fall this year
This year and next year, export prices for Finnish lumber will fall, driven by China. The price difference between spruce [...]
November 6, 2019
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B.C. forest sector to diversify products amid high fibre costs, oversupply and low lumber prices
British Columbia forest sector's woes ranging from high wood costs, declining AAC, US duties, market [...]
November 6, 2019
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