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Building on tropical hardwood’s construction potential

Advocacy for using timber as a mainstream modern construction material is increasing in Europe and other regions. Faced with the [...]

April 23, 2019

Global sawmill sector’s shrinking profit margins in late 2018

Softwood lumber prices have generally fallen faster than the costs for sawlogs throughout the world in late 2018, resulting in [...]

April 16, 2019

Trade impact of FLEGT licensing

Based on structured interviews with around 150 companies in the seven main EU markets for tropical timber products (Belgium, France [...]

April 16, 2019

Congo: New forest code could totally ban exports of logs

Against the backdrop of very quiet demand in China producers report no price movements other than the recent decline in [...]

April 3, 2019

Ghana: Rosewood harvesting, transport and export banned

Ghana's government has placed a total ban on the harvesting, processing and export of rosewood with immediate effect. [...]

April 2, 2019

Moody’s: Negative outlook for the global forest products industry

The outlook for the global paper and forest products industry has been changed to negative from stable, Moody's says [...]

March 27, 2019

Ten European companies accused of importing illegal wood from DRC

Ten European companies trading in timber have sourced US$2.26 million of wood from a company engaged in illegal [...]

March 26, 2019

Global lumber trade falls due to slowing markets in US, China, UK and Japan

In 2018, global trade of lumber fell for the first time in five years, with total trade down 7% year [...]

March 18, 2019

EU imports of tropical logs rise 11% in 2018

After a sharp downturn in 2017, EU imports of tropical logs recovered some lost ground in 2018 but were still [...]

March 18, 2019

Global sawlog prices reach highest level in 4 years

In early 2018, the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) reached $80.73/m3, its highest level since 2014. Sawlog prices [...]

March 11, 2019

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