Australia’s woodchip industry hit by US-China trade war
Australia's $1.4-billion plantation woodchip industry has been dragged into the US-China trade war, with a number [...]
October 15, 2019
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EU tropical wood trade up 16% in H1/2019
The EU’s trade in tropical wood products was more buoyant in the first half of this year compared to [...]
October 9, 2019
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Timber skyscrapers hold the key to green cities
Recent studies have shown the environmental benefits of timber residential developments and in future wooden skyscrapers [...]
October 7, 2019
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Record softwood lumber imports in China
Demand for lumber in China, the United Kingdom, Egypt and the Netherlands increased this year despite a slowdown in the [...]
September 26, 2019
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Japanese forestry giants expand in New Zealand
The growing need in emerging markets for building materials and fuel has spurred Japanese trading houses [...]
September 24, 2019
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Logging contractors in New Zealand shaken by Chinese price collapse
Logging contractors in New Zealand are letting staff go or are working on reduced hours after the sudden fall in [...]
September 10, 2019
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Price recovery for New Zealand’s logs exports to China
New Zealand log prices in China have improved after slumping earlier in the year, restoring a little confidence to the [...]
August 29, 2019
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Wood starts to replace concrete in the global construction industry
For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]
August 29, 2019
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More German and New Zealand logs in the Chinese market
In the January-May period, log imports to China from Russia declined 26.2 percent year-over-year to 3 [...]
August 28, 2019
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Russia and New Zealand compete over timber exports to China
Russia is currently China's largest timber source. In 2018, Russian exports to China reached 15.65 million cubic meters [...]
August 26, 2019
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