UPM might close Chapelle mill in France
In September 2019, UPM announced plans to sell its Chapelle newsprint mill in Grand-Couronne, France. [...]
January 28, 2020
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Mayr-Melnhof to invest EUR 130 million in a cross-laminated timber plant
Austrian company Mayr-Melnhof will invest € 130 million on new cross-laminated timber production plant at the company's site [...]
January 27, 2020
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Finland’s forestry industry paralyzed by strikes
Some 9,000 workers at Finnish paper mills will start a three-week strike this Monday after wage talks broke [...]
January 27, 2020
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Vietnam becomes Japan’s main pellet supplier
The earthquake, tsunami and resulting damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake on [...]
January 27, 2020
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Sawmill closures in New Zealand as overseas market subsidies inflate log prices
Sawmills in New Zealand find it hard to be profitable when overseas competitors can benefit from subsidies, the main timber [...]
January 27, 2020
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Russia: Softwood logs exports collapse in 2019
Russian softwood logs exports dropped by 27% in the third quarter of last year; with exports of spruce roundwood falling [...]
January 27, 2020
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BC’s forest products sector, amid mill shuts, job losses, in worse crisis than during 2008 global meltdown
The crisis facing British Columbia's forest industry is intensifying as markets decline, mills shut and a strike involving 3 [...]
January 24, 2020
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Finland: Highly probable strikes at sawmills and plywood factories could cause damages of EUR 1 billion
If the strikes threatening the forest industry were to happen, the damage could amount to nearly 1 billion euros. [...]
January 24, 2020
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Uncertain market conditions continue to affect Setra’s earnings
Swedish wood products company Setra has reported an operating profit of SEK 95 (287) million for the period January–September [...]
January 24, 2020
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Gelo Holzwerk invests in a new sawmill in Germany
Gelo Holzwerk announced EUR 38.5 million greenfield investment in a completely new sawmill location at the Wunsiedel energy park [...]
January 24, 2020
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