Sweden: The notified area of final felling rises sharply due to bark beetle attacks
The notified area of final felling in Sweden increased by 13% in April compared with the corresponding month in 2018 [...]
May 23, 2019
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Germany: Producer prices for wood products on a downward trend
The economic downturn noted by the market research institutes is also reflected in Germany's producer prices for commercial wood [...]
May 23, 2019
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US is beginning to realize the importance of diversification of hardwood export markets
The fact that China has imposed tariffs on American hardwood products imports has sounded the alarm for the US timber [...]
May 22, 2019
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Forestry giants in BC show dramatic descend at the stock market
A closer look at any stock chart could reveal how the BC forest companies have slide down to three-year [...]
May 21, 2019
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Swedish Södra to lower purchase prices for spruce roundwood
The high supply of spruce roundwood in Sweden and Central Europe as well as the obvious slowdown in the global [...]
May 21, 2019
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France: The bark beetle crisis pushes down the prices for softwoods at auctions
In the northern half of France, forest owners of spruce and fir are very concerned. During an unusually mild winter [...]
May 21, 2019
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New phase in the US-China trade war: Consequences on the wood products industry
On 13 May China's State Council announced increased tariffs on US$60 billion of US imports (some 5,140 [...]
May 20, 2019
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Romania plans to ban the exports of logs
Romania's ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD) has announced the intention to file a bill to ban the export of [...]
May 20, 2019
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U.S. hardwood lumber exports to China drop 40% in Q1/2019
Hardwood lumber exports from U.S. to China fell 39.8% y-o-y to 352.0 thousand m3 in [...]
May 20, 2019
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Booming roundwood prices in Norway
Following a favourable 2018 for the Norwegian forest industry, when a total of 10.7 million cubic metres of roundwood [...]
May 20, 2019
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