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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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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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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COVID-19 pandemic expected to further slow the global construction activity
Global construction activity contracted across all region in Q2 due to the lockdowns to control the spread of the COVID [...]
August 11, 2020
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Heavy floods in China expected to have an impact on timber demand
The summer rains arrived early this year in China and with unusual intensity. Over the past weeks, the average precipitation [...]
August 10, 2020
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U.S. DoC finds dumping of wood mouldings and millwork from China, not Brazil
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) announced its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of [...]
August 10, 2020
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Cheap exports make Germany an important logs supplier to China
China Customs data shows that in the first half of this year China’s log imports totalled 19.68 million [...]
August 4, 2020
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Chinese wood processing companies severely impacted by slow demand abroad
78% of China's wood processing companies currently are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, while the resumption [...]
July 28, 2020
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China is now the leading market for Brazilian particleboard
In the first semester of 2020 (6M-2020) China became the main export market for the Brazilian particleboard / MDP (PB [...]
July 28, 2020
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German spruce lumber puts pressure on Finnish and Russian supplies to China
After February, a large volume of German spruce lumber was reported at the Chinese ports, with imports reaching approximately 340 [...]
July 20, 2020
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