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EU tropical wood imports slow with mounting signs of recession

In the first nine months of this year the EU27 imported 1.53 million tonnes of tropical wood and wooden [...]

December 1, 2022

Top 15 biggest lumber producing companies in the world

GWMI picked the top 15 companies across the globe based on their softwood lumber production figures for 2021. The list [...]

November 28, 2022

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House [...]

November 28, 2022

Wood industry at COP 27: Combining climate protection and business

At the COP 27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Austria's timber industry is focusing on [...]

November 17, 2022

Central Africa: Log export ban postponed indefinitely

In Central Africa, the ban on the export of logs will no longer take effect from 1 January 2023. The [...]

November 16, 2022

IHC 2022: Hardwood market between shortages of raw materials and high energy costs

On the 28th of October, a successful International Hardwood conference was organised in Lyon by the French National Wood Federation [...]

November 3, 2022

Downturn in China beginning to impact African tropical logs and sawnwood prices

The economic slowdown in China has started to affect FOB prices with prices for okoume, beli and some of the [...]

November 1, 2022

FAO: Consumption of primary processed wood products predicted to grow 37 percent by 2050

Overall consumption of primary processed wood products is expected to grow 37 percent by 2050 in a business-as-usual [...]

October 11, 2022

Global trade of softwood lumber on a downward trend

Global trade of softwood lumber fell about 10% in the first half of 2022. Most of the decline was driven [...]

October 10, 2022

China: Rise in CIF prices for lumber imports

CIF prices for China’s lumber imports from most suppliers rose in the first half of 2022, except for Thailand [...]

September 6, 2022

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