Archives: February 2022

Australia’s softwood log exports: Indian market not yet able to fill the Chinese void

November 2021 was the thirteenth consecutive month to record declines in Australia’s annual softwood log exports, with the annual [...]

Vietnam’s wood product exports are expected to grow in 2022

    Vietnamese wood and furniture products are expected to grow in 2022 due to the purchasing demand [...]

Record financial result for Södra in 2021

Södra posted a record result of SEK 5,316 million for 2021 due to favourable market prices and stable [...]

Estonian timber industry is increasingly dependent on imports

      In the last few years, imports of raw materials for the Estonian wood industry [...]

New legislation in Sweden makes logging impossible for large parts of the year

New rulings, from the land and environmental courts and the European Court of Justice, have created what is called a [...]

Global supply chain chaos could worsen this year

According to a survey conducted by Container Xchange, a container leasing and trading platform, among 800 practitioners in the logistics [...]

Record wood pellet production in Germany

Although the production of wood pellets in Germany fell slightly in the fourth quarter of 2021, a new production record [...]
February 16, 2022 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Is the European ban on imported deforestation too punitive?

The European Commission’s plan to counter deforestation associated with certain imported agricultural products was unveiled on November 17, 2021 [...]

Prices for imported softwood logs in China start to pick up as inventories fall

Domestic log prices in China have continued to firm in the last 4 weeks with the Chinese Government implementing a [...]

N. American lumber prices are up 30% in February

     Lumber has surged nearly 30% so far this month in step with the wider rally in [...]