UPM completes plywood expansion in Russia
The expansion of UPM Chudovo plywood mill, started in the autumn of 2017, was inaugurated. The expansion has increased the [...]
September 11, 2019
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Trends in global pellet prices and trade
The global wood pellets market revenue amounted to $5,359.9B in 2018, rising by 6.8% against the previous [...]
September 10, 2019
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Falling sawlog prices across the world
The Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) fell for the fifth consecutive quarter in the 2Q/19, reaching a two-year [...]
September 9, 2019
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Ban on Russian timber exports to China would be inappropriate, says Minister of Industry and Trade
A complete ban on the sale of Russian timber exports to China looks inappropriate, since illegal logging is an internal [...]
September 4, 2019
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Wood starts to gradually replace concrete, as wooden skycrapers spread across the world
For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]
August 22, 2019
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German exports of logs to China more than double this year
In the January-May period, log imports to China from Russia declined 26.2 percent year-over-year to 3 [...]
August 21, 2019
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Timber exports to China: Russia and New Zealand at ”war”
Russia is currently China's largest timber source. In 2018, Russian exports to China reached 15.65 million cubic meters [...]
August 20, 2019
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Russia could ban timber exports to China
Russia could ban timber exports to China unless Beijing takes action to help mitigate the effects of illegal logging, a [...]
August 19, 2019
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Main Russian wood pellet suppliers and foreign buyers in H1/2019
Exports of wood pellets from Russia are growing at the highest rate in recent years. In H1/2019, exports grew [...]
August 13, 2019
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Russia might cease birch logs export quota
Recently, the Russian Federal Government's Committee on Foreign Trade and Tariff Policy Protection Measures has submitted a proposal to [...]
August 2, 2019
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