Coronavirus: Overview of wood industry trade shows and conferences postponed or cancelled in Europe, Asia and N. America
In view of the ongoing unpredictable developments of the coronavirus pandemic many trade fairs in the wood industry have been [...]
March 17, 2020
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Universal Forest Products to acquire Quest
Universal Forest Products, Inc. announced that one of its affiliates acquired the operating assets of Quest Design & Fabrication and [...]
March 17, 2020
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Wood business companies start to react to the coronavirus threat
Wood business companies are responding to the threats of coronavirus. Here is a tracking of the most recent developments: [...]
March 16, 2020
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Sawlog prices contract all over the world, with biggest declines in Europe
Global trade of softwood logs in 2019 remained practically unchanged from 2018 at 93 million m3. As much as 45 [...]
March 16, 2020
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Container lines face $17 billion fall in revenues, as the efforts to stop spread of coronavirus continue
Container lines could be facing a $17bn shortfall in revenues this year as developed economies’ efforts to halt the spread [...]
March 16, 2020
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Chinese wood industry slowly coming back to life
Chinese firms are resuming work, and there appears to be an improvement over the last week. However, production [...]
March 13, 2020
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Trump bans travel from Europe; ban doesn’t apply to trade
The United States has imposed a general entry ban on people wishing to travel to the United States [...]
March 12, 2020
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Plywood market in the Middle East is set to rise robustly
Middle East's plywood market is performing robustly for at least the past 10 years and is set [...]
March 12, 2020
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Coronavirus: Chinese trade revives after the first though two months
China made significant progress in kick starting its imports and exports in the last week/days. Data from [...]
March 12, 2020
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U.S. softwood lumber production up 1.2% in 2019; Canadian output down sharply
U.S. sawmills in 2019 produced 35.319 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in 2019, up 1.2 [...]
March 10, 2020
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