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Moody’s: Limited supply, strong demand to drive most wood product prices to peak level in 2021

The outlook for the global forest products industry remains positive, said Moody’s Investors Service. [...]

March 25, 2021

Suez Canal blockage could drive in huge trade disruption

A giant container ship has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade [...]

March 25, 2021

Andritz to supply complete MDF plant to Nile Wood, Egypt

International technology Group Andritz has received an order – in cooperation with Dieffenbacher – to supply a complete MDF plant, including a [...]

January 27, 2021

Moody’s: Positive outlook for the forest products sector in 2021

Moody’s is optimistic about the outlook for the global forest products industry in 2021. “Our [...]

January 25, 2021

EU tropical timber trade faces double dip recession

Total EU27 (i.e. excluding the UK) import value of tropical wood and wood furniture products was US$2.48 [...]

January 18, 2021

Global lumber markets benefit from rising prices

Lumber prices have increased worldwide in the second half of 2020 with US prices almost doubling Lumber Markets [...]

January 6, 2021

The global forest industry rides out of a tumultuous year

The global forest industry has gone through an unprecedented year caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. These are the key [...]

December 23, 2020

Demand for African tropical timber recovering but prices easing

As businesses in importing countries adapt to working with the coronavirus risk trade has started to revive and some FOB [...]

December 18, 2020

Wooden surfaces can help in fight against spread of coronavirus

The survival of viruses on wooden surfaces is studied in a project started last summer by the universities of Eastern [...]

December 8, 2020

Tropical wood prices and demand stable in West Africa

There has been little change in prices in West Africa. Demand is stable, both in the West African [...]

November 9, 2020

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