Top 15 biggest lumber producing companies in the world
GWMI picked the top 15 companies across the globe based on their softwood lumber production figures for 2021. The list [...]
December 1, 2022
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Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050
The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and [...]
December 1, 2022
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Wood industry at COP 27: Combining climate protection and business
At the COP 27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Austria's timber [...]
November 20, 2022
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Indonesian timber imports into the EU threatened by new deforestation law
Indonesian officials have slammed the European Union’s proposal of a regulation that they say negates [...]
November 15, 2022
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Ocean freights drop sharply as global trade slows down
In 2021, the skyrocketing shipping prices have made the world's major shipping companies more profitable, but now, such good [...]
November 11, 2022
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Indonesia slows wood product exports to China and US
According to data recently released by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry, as of September this year, Indonesia's [...]
November 11, 2022
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India: Logs and sawn timber import demand slows
Economic activity started slowing in India in the middle of October as preparations commenced for Diwali (Festival of Lights) on [...]
November 3, 2022
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Vietnam’s wood trade under pressure due to logging, Ukraine war
Reputational risks are piling up for a Vietnamese lumber industry already beset by a falloff in demand from the heights [...]
November 1, 2022
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Brazil, Uruguary wood chip exports rise, Chile shipments decline
Eucalyptus plantations in Latin America are a significant supply source to pulpmills in China and Japan. However, the Latin American [...]
October 28, 2022
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Global softwood log trade drops by 20%
A halt in Russian log exports and reduced wood demand in China contributed to a 20 [...]
October 24, 2022
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