Global lumber producers see their profitability go up substantially in 2020
Times have been good for lumber producers in 2020, with profitability rising worldwide. Most important lumber producing countries have had [...]
February 11, 2021
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Top 10 US lumber producers in 2020
Softwood lumber producers had a wild ride in 2020. From major cutbacks in the spring in response to the COVID [...]
January 28, 2021
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Siempelkamp to deliver four new drum dryers to Highland Pellets
Büttner, the energy and drying systems subsidiary of Siempelkamp, will deliver four new drum dryers to the American pellet [...]
July 30, 2020
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US lumber prices move up; sharp reduction in Canadian lumber producers duty rates
As the Softwood Lumber Dispute V file winds it’s way through the usual US domestic as well as international [...]
February 10, 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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Top global softwood lumber producers in 2018
As it has since 2007, West Fraser is the world’s largest softwood lumber producer: in 2018, the company produced [...]
April 24, 2019
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Top global softwood lumber producers
The top global lumber companies showed further gains in production in 2017 as compared to 2016 output. Three companies recorded [...]
July 25, 2018
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Top 10 North American lumber producers in 2017
With few mill acquisitions, almost all of the production gains arose from improvements at existing mills. Of the top 40 [...]
April 9, 2018
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France: French competition authority fines leading flooring producers with €302 million over price fixing accusations
The French competition authority (The Autorité) has imposed sanctions totalling €302 million on the three leading manufacturers of PVC and [...]
October 23, 2017
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Russia: Top 10 wood pellet producers and production facilities in 2016
About 65 percent of total Russian production of wood pellets is manufactured by 12 processing facilities. There are about 20 [...]
June 26, 2017
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