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Metsä to invest EUR 200 million in a new sawmill in Rauma, Finland

Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has made the decision to build the world’s most modern sawmill in Rauma [...]

March 31, 2020

Finland’s forest industry struggles with the bark beetle effects, mild winters and coronavirus

At the moment, forest prospects are obscured by unpredictable factors that are completely independent of the Finnish forest [...]

March 23, 2020

Finland: Price evolution in roundwood trade 2019

In 2019, the average price paid for pine logs purchased from Finnish non-industrial private forests in standing [...]

March 9, 2020

Finland: Forest industry under threat due to oversupply, falling prices and strikes

Finland's forest industry has now become under threat by oversupply caused by the bark beetle and storms [...]

February 17, 2020

Finnish pulp and timber strikes come to an end

The strikes began in January and affected the whole of Finland’s pulp and paper industry. [...]

February 13, 2020

Finland: Roundwood prices in December 2019

In December 2019, the average price for pine logs in Finland was EUR 53.1 per cubic meter [...]

February 5, 2020

Finland’s forest industry output impacted by the global economic downturn

Out of the main product groups in Finland's forest industry, paper, board, lumber and plywood [...]

February 5, 2020

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

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

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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