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Coronavirus: Current status of activity in the tropical timber market

As the coronavirus pandemic is expanding in many countries of the world, the tropical timber market has started to feel [...]

March 31, 2020

Second consecutive year of growth in EU tropical timber imports

Despite a downturn in the last six months of 2019, EU imports of tropical wood products last year were greater [...]

March 17, 2020

STTC Conference considers links between FLEGT licenses and forest certification

To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from the synergies between the [...]

December 10, 2019

Continuing potential for timber market growth in the Netherlands

The national report on the Dutch timber market issued in advance of the 77th session of the ECE Committee on [...]

October 17, 2019

EC reports steady progress in EUTR implementation

On 5th October, the European Commission (EC) formally adopted the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) Report 2017, the second biennial report [...]

October 16, 2018

EUTR’s impact on tropical wood imports

The obligation placed on importers by the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) to gather data to demonstrate a negligible risk of [...]

September 18, 2018

Efforts in Europe to increase use of lesser-known timber species

Efforts to increase uptake of lesser-known species have come not just from the industry, but also from NGOs and [...]

September 4, 2018

Realising tropical timber’s marine use potential

Tropical hardwood’s long-held status as the prime material for European fresh and seawater marine applications has been increasingly [...]

September 3, 2018

European African timber operations transferred to Asian companies

A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away from the European market [...]

August 23, 2018

Gabon has the potential to become a world leader in certified tropical timber production

Gabon has developed an industrial strategy aimed at managing timber stocks sustainedly, as the country further plans to become a [...]

December 12, 2017

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