China current wood imports and inventories
Softwood log stocks at China’s main ocean ports totalled 4.44 million m3 at the end of June 2020 [...]
August 17, 2020
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China buys bark beetle-infested spruce from Germany, spurning Canada
The bark beetle has been a headache for Andreas Voss, chief wood marketer of Germany's most populous federal state [...]
August 17, 2020
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Kronospan invests massively in Ukraine
Kronospan UA LLC (Novovolynsk, Volyn region), part of the Kronospan Group, has launched a new OSB production facility in Novovolynsk [...]
August 17, 2020
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EU wood furniture production sliding even before pandemic
Newly released Eurostat data indicates that the value of EU27+UK wood furniture production was €42.5 billion in 2019 [...]
August 17, 2020
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Prices for New Zealand logs crash amid slow demand in China and European spruce oversupply
Prices for New Zealand logs are 12 percent below the five- year average on the back of overstocking, the summer [...]
August 13, 2020
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Calamities and coronavirus: Bad prospects in the German and Austrian forest
The first half of the year was extremely bad for the majority of Austrian and German forest companies. In addition [...]
August 13, 2020
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Softwood lumber prices at record highs in North America
North American softwood lumber manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, buyers, and end-users alike agree that this current supply-demand situation, and [...]
August 13, 2020
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Belarus starts to export wood pellets to the European market
Belarusian wood pellets will be exported to the European Union market, the press service of the Belarusian Forestry Ministry said [...]
August 13, 2020
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Estonian company to build a new sawmill in Belarus
The Estonian wood industry company Kaamos Timber entered into a loan agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [...]
August 13, 2020
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Record pace for German exports of logs; 50% goes to China
Germany continued to export logs at record pace in early 2020, with almost 50% of the volume destined for China [...]
August 11, 2020
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