Archives: January 2023

Wood prices jump high in Poland; now comparable to Germany and Sweden

Recently, there has also been a significant rise in wood prices in the Polish wholesale market, which are now comparable [...]
January 19, 2023 Latest Trends

HS Timber Group to reduce production capacities in Romania

HS Timber Group, formerly known as the Holzindustrie Schweighofer, announces that the production capacities of posts and beams (glulam products [...]
January 19, 2023 Latest Trends

Controversy over forestry in EU nature restoration law

The European Union aims to adopt a new regulation by the end of the year to restore natural ecosystems but [...]
January 19, 2023 Latest Trends

Germany: Spruce log price index shows an upward trend

The German producer price indices for spruce developed clearly upwards in October 2022. On average, the index for log wood [...]
January 19, 2023 Latest Trends

Arauco to reorganize its Wood Segment

In the context of the reorganization of its Wood segment, Arauco informed that on December 16, 2022, Inversiones Arauco Internacional [...]
January 19, 2023 Latest Trends

More sawmill closures expected in British Columbia in 2023

A series of federal and provincial government policies that are deliberately squelching growth in certain sectors, such as metallurgical coal [...]
January 18, 2023 Latest Trends

Södra Wood expands lumber supplying to Japan

Södra Wood, which is a Sweden’s largest forest owners association and an international forest industry group, will expand [...]
January 18, 2023 Latest Trends

Hasslacher Group to take over German wood processing company

The Hasslacher Group has taken over another company, namely Dickel-Holz GmbH & Co. KG. The nationally and internationally [...]
January 18, 2023 Latest Trends

Vietnam’s wood exports forecast to hit record of 18 billion USD this year

The export turnover of Vietnamese wood and wood products is expected to set a record high of 18 billion USD [...]
January 18, 2023 Latest Trends

Mood in the German industry brightens significantly, despite pessimism in the sawmill segment

At the turn of the year, the mood in the German timber industry brightened noticeably. According to the index calculated [...]
January 17, 2023 Latest Trends