China: Redwood imports on the rise
The average growth in the value of retail sales of commodities in 2017 was 8.2% but sales of furniture [...]
August 30, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Wood Furniture / Africa / China
Major structural change is underway in the African timber industry
A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away from the European market [...]
August 23, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa
European and North American sawmills registered record profits in H1/2018
Sawlog costs, the largest cost component when manufacturing lumber, have gone up much more slowly than lumber prices in many [...]
August 23, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling
Teak purchases from Myanmar discouraged in EU countries
Given continuing controversy in the EU over whether Myanmar teak can be traded in compliance with EUTR requirements, importers were [...]
August 21, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / Europe
Metsä Group bioproduct mill reaches nominal pulp capacity
Metsä Group has announced that its next-generation, bioproduct mill in Aanekoski, Finland, has reached its nominal capacity in August [...]
August 21, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Forestry / ...Pulp & Paper / Sawmilling / Europe
Timber backlogs increase at the Douala Port
One factor in the contraction in Cameroon’s EU exports, which started in 2016, cited by [...]
August 20, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Africa
Indonesian and Brazilian wood products exports affected by the changes in the US GSP
In a recent statement the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) said it believes the wood products export target for [...]
August 20, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Wood-based Panels / Asia & Middle East / North America / South America
Prices for wood products in Germany on the rise
In July, a slightly upward trend for the German wood products price index could be noticed [...]
August 20, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Industry Prices / Forestry / Industry Prices / Sawmilling / Wood Construction / Wood Energy / Wood Furniture / Wood-based Panels / Europe
Softwood lumber production in the US increases, while output in Canada goes down
U.S. sawmills produced 14.752 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first [...]
August 20, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / North America
Latvian softwood lumber exports on a downward trend
Sawn and planed sawn softwood exports from Latvia went down by 15% during the Q1/2018, to 603,000 m3 [...]
August 16, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Europe
