Considerable drop in US lumber prices
Sales picked up late in the week in some framing lumber species, amid a limit-up move in futures Thursday [...]
August 5, 2019
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Record pellet production in Germany; new plants, expansions and rising wood stocks as main reasons
Due to increasing wood stocks in the German forests, the production of wood pellets has been steadily increasing for years [...]
August 5, 2019
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Finland’s softwood lumber exports move from China to Egypt
Finnish softwood lumber exports to the world increased by 5% in the first five months of 2019. The softwood lumber [...]
August 2, 2019
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China: Wood-based panel prices at a low level in July
At present, the market trend of plywood in China is relatively bleak, and there are very few shipments. [...]
August 2, 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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New production curtailments in BC announced by Sinclar Group
In another hit to the B.C. forest industry, the Sinclar Group announced temporary production curtailments at lumber operations in [...]
August 2, 2019
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EU construction market a mixed picture; hardwood sector still strong
According to latest Eurostat figures, building construction contracted by 0.2% in May over April 2019, while civil engineering output [...]
August 2, 2019
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Concerns on the risk of US anti-dumping investigations of Vietnamese wood products exports
In the first 6 months of 2019 the US continued as Vietnam’s top export market for wood products with [...]
August 1, 2019
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Calamity-wood from the Italian Alps sold to China
Between 27 and 29 October 2018, the Vaia storm destroyed 41,491 hectares of woods in North Eastern Italy. Millions [...]
August 1, 2019
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New Zealand’s Spectrum Group plans to build sawmill on former Waverley Sawmills site
While Waverley Sawmills is closed for business its new owner has been working towards a modern state-of-the-art [...]
August 1, 2019
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