Forestry

Germany: Softwood lumber prices between boom and crisis – forecast 2023

Despite the construction crisis and the economic crisis, wood prices in Germany have held up surprisingly well. The prices for [...]

Canfor extends sawmill curtailments in BC

Canfor Corporation will extend sawmill curtailments in British Columbia (B.C.) due to ongoing weak market conditions and the lack [...]

China to reduce tariffs on wood products with effect from Jan 2023

According to the Ministry of Finance of China, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has issued an announcement [...]

US lumber prices continue to fall despite low inventories

Wood-pricing service Random Lengths said that its framing-lumber composite index dropped in the last week of 2022 to [...]

New Zealand: Falling log exports and prices to China

According to the latest import and export data released by the customs, the overall export of New Zealand radiata pine [...]

Tolko extends B.C. shutdowns due to weak markets

Tolko Industries has announced that as of January 2, 2023, its Soda Creek and Armstrong Lumber operations in B.C [...]

Hekotek to supply sawmill equipment to Etablissements GAIFFE SARL in France

Hekotek delivered to Etablissements GAIFFE SARL equipment for logs handling with collecting conveyors for sawing residues. The customer is a [...]

Pfeifer to acquire Finnish wood processing company Pölkky

The Austrian Pfeifer Holding GmbH has signed an agreement on acquiring the Finnish wood processing company Pölkky Oy. The [...]

Sharp fall in Finland’s sawn timber exports to European countries

In the third quarter of 2022, Finnish exports of raw and planed sawn softwood to other European countries decreased by [...]

Austria: Softwood log price overview in December 2022

The global economic downturn has now also reached Austria. Exports and the added value of the domestic industry shrank. Due [...]