Forestry

Angelina Forest Products wants to build $100 million sawmill in Texas in 2019

Angelina Forest Products announces plan to build a $100 million sawmill in Lufkin, Texas, US. This is part of a [...]

Latvian Vika Wood expands sawmill production capacity

The Latvian wood-processing company Vika Wood has been recently granted a long-term loan of EUR 7.5 million [...]

Supply of Vietnamese eucalyptus plywood is running short

Supply of Vietnamese eucalyptus plywood for crating is getting tight so the distribution volume in Japan is dropping considerably, reports [...]

Sawmill industry in Germany predicts positive 2018 outlook, based on good results at the beginning of the year

    The German sawmill industry was able to conclude the year 2017 positively, while during the course [...]

Central/West Africa: Logs & sawnwood FOB price forecast to improve

Producers in West and Central Africa are generally optimistic that the present stable market conditions will be maintained through the [...]

Norbord reached highest profits among global wood-based panel manufacturer

Canadian panel manufacturer Norbord stood out once again among its peers recording the best performance figures for Q1/2018 period [...]

Plywood importers from EU discuss on FLEGT licensing

Asked about FLEGT licensed Indonesian plywood, many European importers say it had not had significant impact on their purchasing or [...]

Brazil: Latest prices for logs, sawnwood and plywood

Latest prices for Brazilian logs, sawnwood and plywood prices 1-15 June, 2018.        [...]

Moody’s forecast for global paper and forest products industry upgrades to ‘positive’

Moody’s Corporation, bond credit rating business Moody’s Investors Service, has released a report which has changed the outlook [...]

Lenzing and Duratex to build giant pulp mill in Brazil

Lenzing, the Austrian cellulose fibres producer, and Duratex, the Brazilian wood panels maker, announced plan to build a dissolving wood [...]