Global wood industry companies react to coronavirus threat; review of recent developments
Wood business companies are responding to the threats of Coronavirus. Here is a tracking of the most recent developments: [...]
April 7, 2020
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Coronavirus: China’s imports of logs, lumber, pulp and wood chips crash in Jan.-Feb. 2020
The coronavirus epidemic in China has resulted in sharply reduced importation of forest products in early 2020. During January and [...]
April 6, 2020
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Coronavirus will cost Europe hundreds of billions of euros in production losses
The fight against the coronavirus will lead to production losses, which will cost European countries hundreds of billions of euros [...]
April 3, 2020
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Sawmill industry in Finland to be hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis
The coronavirus crisis strikes Finland's forest sector with varying degrees of impact. On the whole, the sector is likely [...]
April 2, 2020
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Canadian forest products industry allowed to operate with ‘essential’ designations
With the country settling into the reality of social distancing and non-essential business closures for the next few weeks [...]
April 2, 2020
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Coronavirus puts Europe into lockdown and rewrites economic forecasts
Economic forecasts issued only a few weeks ago in Europe, which projected continuing slow increase this year in GDP and [...]
April 2, 2020
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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
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Analysis: What’s the impact of the coronavirus on the Chinese timber industry?
During the coronavirus crisis, nearly half of the companies in the Chinese wood industry reported that the epidemic had a [...]
March 30, 2020
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Canfor cuts Canadian lumber production by 40%
Canfor, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based timber and forest products company, is being forced to cut back on its operations [...]
March 30, 2020
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N. American wood industry giants announce more production curtailments in response to coronavirus
Wood business companies in North America are responding to the threats of the coronavirus pandemic. Here is a tracking of [...]
March 27, 2020
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