US wood product manufacturers producing at highest levels since 2007
Despite the many challenges presented by the pandemic, US wood products manufacturers are responding to the high demand by producing [...]
March 25, 2021
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Suez Canal blockage could drive in huge trade disruption
A giant container ship has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one of the world's busiest trade [...]
March 25, 2021
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Södra to invest in new CLT facility in Värö, Sweden
Södra is investing in a new facility that will increase the production capacity of timber frames ten-fold. [...]
March 25, 2021
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North American lumber prices plateau after previous weeks’ leaps
Potentially signalling a plateau in lumber prices, at least for the time being, benchmark softwood lumber commodity items stayed flat [...]
March 25, 2021
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China: Log import prices are rising fast in March
Last week (March 15-21), China's log import price index maintained a steady upward market. The weekly index reported [...]
March 23, 2021
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EU wood product exporters struggle to respond to UK due diligence requests
One measure already enforced in the UK is the UK Timber Regulation which imposes legality due diligence requirements on all [...]
March 23, 2021
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Russia: Luzales to build a large wood pellet plant; production exported to Europe
Russian company LLC Luzales plans a second plant for the production of wood fuel pellets. The plant is being built [...]
March 23, 2021
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Scarcity of wood raw materials in Germany
If the scarcity of raw materials on the German wood market continues, pallet producers and other wood packaging manufacturers will [...]
March 23, 2021
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N. American lumber prices are not expected to drop soon
Industry experts hopeful prices could begin to decline in second half of 2021 Lumber prices in [...]
March 22, 2021
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Largest German sawmills plan to increase production in 2021
The largest sawmills in Germany increased their sawmill production volume again last year. Most companies want to maintain or increase [...]
March 22, 2021
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