2020 wood pellet market forecast: European pellet demand to outpace supply
The biomass market faces unprecedented demand levels in 2020, with upcoming base-load power generation capacity due to add around [...]
January 8, 2020
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Global lumber market trends in 2020
In North America at least, 2019 will be remembered as the hangover from the 2018 first-half price spike that [...]
January 7, 2020
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Vietnam suspends some plywood exports to the U.S. to avoid the transit of Chinese products
Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade announced it would suspend some plywood exports to the U.S. [...]
January 7, 2020
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Slight decline in U.S. softwood lumber production for Jan.-Oct. 2019
U.S. sawmills produced 29.909 billion board ft. (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first 10 months of 2019 [...]
January 7, 2020
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Resolute Forest acquires Conifex Timber’s 3 U.S. sawmills
Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced it will acquire Conifex Timber Inc. 's three U.S. sawmills for $163 million, plus [...]
January 6, 2020
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Global output of wood products is at 70-year high
The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood-based panels have surged [...]
January 6, 2020
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$1-billion takeover bid of forestry giant Canfor fails
Lumber giant Canfor has terminated an arrangement agreement between the company and Jim Pattison’s Great Pacific Capital Corporation. [...]
December 19, 2019
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Weyerhaeuser sells Montana timberlands
Weyerhaeuser Company announced an agreement to sell its 630,000 acres of timberland in Montana to a private timberland investment [...]
December 19, 2019
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Canfor’s takeover by Jim Pattinson facing growing opposition from shareholders
The bid by billionaire Jim Pattison to take Canfor Corp. private is facing growing opposition from shareholders, though the investment [...]
December 17, 2019
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COP25: EU officials say carbon neutrality given to biomass energy to come under critical review
Two high-level members of the European Union delegation announced that the carbon neutrality designation given to biomass energy — replacing [...]
December 17, 2019
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