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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Russia’s Far East: Huge timber reserves are unexploited sufficiently
Almost half of the lands of the forest fund of the Russian Federation (556.2 million ha, 49%) and a [...]
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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Profit margins for sawmills in Finland at lowest levels in 15 years
The financial health of the world’s lumber producers was mixed in the 3Q/19. The gross margins fell in [...]
December 17, 2019
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Moody’s forecasts positive outlook for the wood products sector in 2020
-For the wood products and timberland sub sector, Moody’s says operating earnings will increase by [...]
December 16, 2019
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Analysis of the Russia wood pellet market
Wood pellet production in Russia has steadily increased over the past decade, largely driven by exports to Europe where European [...]
December 9, 2019
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Russia surpasses Canada and becomes world’s largest softwood lumber exporter in 2019
Russia has surpassed Canada to become the world’s largest exporter of softwood lumber in 2019 and is on track [...]
December 9, 2019
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Sawlog prices falling in most major markets around the world in 3Q/2019
A plentiful supply of logs coupled with declining demand moved sawlog prices downward in most major markets around the world [...]
December 9, 2019
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Bark beetle infestation and storm damaged timber in Europe rapidly changing global trade flows
Up to the end of October, European log exports to China imports were a whopping 5.6 million m3. The [...]
December 4, 2019
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Russian Segezha Group to start construction of a new plywood plant soon
Russian Segezha Group plans to commence construction of its new birch plywood plant at the location in Galich (Kostroma Oblast [...]
December 4, 2019
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