Global wood consumption hits lowest rate in the decade in 2019
The growth in global wood consumption has increased by only 0.3% in 2019, the lowest rate in [...]
February 18, 2020
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Arauco closes particleboard line in US
Arauco announced it will close its particleboard line in Moncure, North Carolina, effective April 2020. Arauco [...]
February 17, 2020
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U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber
An investigation by illegal-logging watchdog Timberleaks has found that a New Orleans-based lumber company [...]
February 10, 2020
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Brazil becomes the main particleboards supplier to the United States
In 2019 the United States became the main export market for Brazilian particleboard /MDP (PB/MDP). [...]
February 5, 2020
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Forecast: 2020 trends in global lumber demand
Many in the industry will not remember 2019 positively. Simply put, most global markets were awash [...]
January 21, 2020
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2020 trends in the global lumber market
In North America at least, 2019 will be remembered as the hangover from the 2018 first [...]
January 17, 2020
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Worldwide output of wood products is at 70-year high
The global production and trade of major wood products such as industrial roundwood, sawnwood and wood [...]
January 16, 2020
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World’s lumber producers with mixed performances in 3Q/2019
The financial health of the world’s lumber producers was mixed in the 3Q/19. The gross margins fell in [...]
January 8, 2020
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Moody’s 2020 forecast for the global wood products market
-For the wood products and timberland sub sector, Moody’s says operating earnings will [...]
January 8, 2020
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STTC Conference to consider links between FLEGT licenses and forest certification
To rebuild share in the European market, the tropical wood sector must exploit emerging opportunities from [...]
December 20, 2019
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