Weaker demand for high value ‘redwoods’ in China
Many timber suppliers in the Shanghai Furen timber market are complaining that demand for timber for furniture making has suddenly [...]
January 21, 2019
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Latvian forestry products exports up sharply in 2018
In the first 11 months of the year, Latvia exported EUR 2.414 billion worth of forestry products, up 15 [...]
January 18, 2019
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West Fraser curtails production at 3 sawmills
West Fraser announced temporary curtailments of approximately three weeks of production throughout the first quarter of 2019 at each of [...]
January 18, 2019
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Chinese traders concerned on rising prices for US hardwoods
The trade friction between China and the United States has been on everyone’s mind in 2018, especially manufacturers which [...]
January 18, 2019
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Fall in EU wood furniture imports from China in 2018
After making gains in 2017, EU wood furniture imports from China, by far the largest external supplier, fell 5% to [...]
January 18, 2019
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Södra decreases the price of spruce and pine logs due to poor market conditions
Södra is adjusting the purchase price for spruce and pine logs as well as fuel wood. Södra is [...]
January 18, 2019
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New pattern of demand impacting the Indian plywood market
The plywood market in India has absorbed an earlier price rise but supplies are still increasing faster than demand. Analysts [...]
January 14, 2019
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Kronospan seeks to expand in Ukraine with the acquisition of a MDF company
Wood panels producers worldwide consider speeding up the expansion on the market in Ukraine, through building their own production facilities [...]
January 14, 2019
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Trump administration’s lumber tariffs forces Canadian producers to idle sawmills
U.S. lumber prices reached record prices during the first half of 2018, but have come to plunge 47% starting [...]
January 14, 2019
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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
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