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Russia increases duties on exports of logs to 40%

Export duties on three species (larch, spruce and fir) in Far East Russia has been raised by 15 points to [...]

February 18, 2019

The Russian forestry sector reports growth in production in 2018

The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) published the first final data on the volumes of timber production in 2018. [...]

February 13, 2019

Steady rise in Russian lumber exports during 2018

In 2018, the Russian lumber exports went up in value and volume terms. During the mentioned period, the country exported [...]

February 8, 2019

Global lumber market affected by slowing Chinese economy and trade disputes

As a result of the Chinese economy going down and the trade disputes the country has with the U.S [...]

January 21, 2019

ISO publishes chain of custody standard for wood products

ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) has published a new, voluntary standard for chain of custody (CoC) of wood and [...]

January 21, 2019

Global softwood lumber trade impacted by slowing demand in China and dropping US prices

Declining trade of softwood lumber, plummeting lumber prices in the US and slowing wood demand in China were some of [...]

January 14, 2019

Wood pellets market outlook for 2019

From a North American producer’s perspective, 2018 was one of the best years in quite [...]

January 8, 2019

2019 global lumber market outlook

After surviving a global slowdown in 2015, world lumber markets became favourable as a general trend of rising prices took [...]

January 7, 2019

Segezha starts production of wood pellets at its new plant in Russia

Segezha Group has started in December the production of wood pellets at the company’s Lesosibirsky LDK No. 1 factory [...]

January 7, 2019

Global wood pellet trade picked up strongly in 2018 after years of moderate growth

2018 was one of the strongest years for the global wood pellet market in terms of growth and pricing. [...]

December 21, 2018

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