Stora Enso implements first measure of its cost-cutting programme: reduces a shift at Ala sawmill
In Sweden, Stora Enso has announced that 23 employees at its sawmill in Ala have received [...]
February 27, 2019
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British Columbia’s lumber exports to China start to go down, as demand decreases
British Columbia's lumber exports to China are decreasing, as the country's slowing economic growth traces demand for one [...]
February 25, 2019
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US sawmills produced more softwood lumber in 2018
U.S. sawmills produced 32.441 billion board feet (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first [...]
February 25, 2019
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Universal Forest Products acquires Wolverine Wood Products
Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates has signed an agreement to purchase [...]
February 25, 2019
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Lumber prices in the US keep on rising
Sales of US framing lumber slowed as winter took a toll on consumption across the continent. Snow in the Northwest [...]
February 22, 2019
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International Forest Products buys UK’s Price and Pierce Forest Products
International Forest Products LLC (IFP) is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire all of the equity of Price and [...]
February 22, 2019
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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
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Russia to virtually stop export of logs starting 2021
Export duties on three species (larch, spruce and fir) in Far East Russia has been raised by 15 points to [...]
February 22, 2019
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SCA inaugurates its the largest pulp mill in the world
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf inaugurated SCA’s pulp mill Östrand in Timrå. The expansion [...]
February 22, 2019
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Record year for Western Forest Products, despite softwood lumber duties
Despite paying up more than $43 million in softwood lumber duties, Western Forest Products managed to realize a profit of [...]
February 20, 2019
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