Masisa to abandon all operations in Argentina
Chilean timber company Masisa Wednesday announced it had liquidated all its assets in Argentina to abandon all its operations in [...]
January 9, 2023
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China: Hopes that Covid restriction easing would bring back wood demand
Several major Chinese banks have adopted a government led 16-point rescue plan to extend billions to struggling private developers [...]
December 19, 2022
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EU approves import ban law on products linked to deforestation
The European Union agreed on Tuesday on a new law to prevent companies from selling into [...]
December 8, 2022
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China: Stable softwood log imports; pricing could improve next year
China softwood log inventory is stable at about 3.5m m3 and port off-take is [...]
December 8, 2022
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China: Recovery signs of the softwood import market in Q1/2023
In China, the softwood import market remains weak but there are small hopes for Q1/2023. As of mid-November [...]
December 6, 2022
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EU tropical wood imports slow with mounting signs of recession
In the first nine months of this year the EU27 imported 1.53 million tonnes of [...]
December 6, 2022
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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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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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