Forestry

US Trade Commission proceeds with the potential import duties on Canadian lumber

The US International Trade Commission (USITC) will keep on with its investigation into antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of [...]
January 21, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / North America

Belarus softwood timber exports to the EU jump by 35% due to log export ban

As Belarus decided to ban exports of unprocessed wood starting January 1st, 2016, logs deliveries to Europe have stopped.  [...]
January 19, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Hadleigh Timber in UK has bought Timbmet

Timbmet, the timber supplier and processor, has been recently acquired by Hadleigh Timber, owner of Meyer Timber.    [...]

SCA Group starts work for splitting into hygiene and forest products companies

SCA, the leading global hygiene and forest products company, has started the work on splitting the SCA Group into two [...]

Roundwood prices in Switzerland kept stable in 2016

The forestry industry in Switzerland got positive results during last year, both for the timber harvest and the energy market [...]
January 12, 2017 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Wood Energy / Europe

Higher roundwood prices affect the German sawmill industry competitiveness

Worldwide roundwood prices are falling, but there is still a constant distance between the high German and significantly lower international [...]

Trudeau-Obama meeting might solve lumber trade dispute

Justin Trudeau’s visit to the Washington helped developing a closer connection in the solving of the ongoing Softwood Lumber [...]

Lumber production in Canada increased by 8% in 2015

The Canadian lumber production increased by 8% in 2015, compared to 2014. Thus, production summed 26.7 billion board feet [...]

Softwood lumber global trade reaches 10-year high in 2015

A majority of the 20 largest softwood lumber-consuming countries in the world increased their importation of lumber in 2015 [...]

Albania bans logging for the next 10 years as to help forests regenerate

The forests in Albania have suffered major exploitation in the past 25 years, so the Albanian government has decided to [...]
February 29, 2016 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Europe