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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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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Singapore’s Sudima to split planned US$200M wood processing complex in Russia’s Far East
Singapore's Sudima International, which announced earlier that it would build a wood-processing complex in the Primorye Territory worth [...]
August 1, 2019
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The Czech Republic grants EUR 100 million to forest owners to mitigate beetle calamity
The Czech Ministry of Agriculture is planning to promote non-state forest owners with up to 2.5 billion crowns [...]
August 1, 2019
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Brexit bites, but EU hardwood buoyed by new marketing moves
While uncertainty surrounding Brexit may be casting a shadow over the UK market the wider EU hardwood sector reports generally [...]
August 1, 2019
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Recovery in EU softwood lumber exports to China, as Germany pushes deliveries
Following a -32% drop in exports last year, European softwood lumber deliveries to China have recovered in the first five [...]
July 29, 2019
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Europe could be a future destination for American softwoods
American Softwoods Consultant, Charles Trevor, was interviewed by AEIM (Spanish Association of Wood Trade and Industry) and the article appeared [...]
July 29, 2019
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FSC sanctions Korean-Indonesian company for clearing tropical forests
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has sanctioned Korean-Indonesian conglomerate Korindo for clearing tropical forests in Indonesia to produce palm [...]
July 29, 2019
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