Wood Construction

Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on top Canadian lumber producers

    COVID-19 delivered a year like no other in 2020, and the high demand for lumber [...]

Germany: Market situation tense due to low availability of wood

      The domestic demand for wood in Germany has increased overall due to increased exports [...]

Skyrocketing lumber prices threaten the U.S. housing market

    Skyrocketing lumber prices threaten to thwart the momentum of the U.S. housing market, which for [...]

France’s wood industry welcomes government’s plan to boost industry

France’s wood sector has welcomed the government’s move to update a strategic contract for the industry to bring [...]

Germany: Massive exports to the US put pressure on domestic wood prices

The German wood market is divided into two parts. While wood prices are only rising very slowly for German forest [...]

Forecast: Finland’s exports and prices of sawn timber expected to rise this year

The Finnish forest industry will be bouncing out of the coronavirus crisis this year and next, as the economies of [...]

Record rise in N. American lumber prices will not ease in the near future

    US prices for all categories of lumber break records as futures prices surge with no relief [...]

N. American lumber prices could very easily jump to new record highs this year

     Lumber prices in North America could head to $1300 per thousand board feet.   The [...]

Skyrocketing wood prices in some European countries

European wood is in great demand. That leads to skyrocketing prices.    "The sudden and massive shortage [...]

Germany: Timber traders worried about supply shortage

    The German timber trade is concerned about the increasingly tense situation on the procurement markets. Wholesalers [...]