Many Chinese wood and furniture business to relocate factories to Indonesia
59 Chinese investors engaged in the wood and furniture business will relocate factories to Indonesia. The investors plan to relocate [...]
December 11, 2019
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N. American softwood lumber prices going up
The work stoppage on CN Rail ended - as of mid-day Tuesday - which was soon enough [...]
December 11, 2019
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Falling spruce sawlog prices in Estonia, as bark beetle infestation puts prices under pressure
The year 2019 is marked by falling roundwood prices in large parts of Central, Northern and [...]
December 11, 2019
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Metsä Group, Stora Enso, and UPM plan 6-day lock-out at sawmills, plywood mills in Finland
Finnish Forest Industries Federation said on Wednesday it would hold a 6-day lock-out from Dec. 12, closing half [...]
December 11, 2019
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Conifex considers asset divestment and restructuring plan in its lumber segment
Conifex Timber Inc. announced that the agent for its lumber segment lenders approved in principle Conifex's proposed asset divestment [...]
December 11, 2019
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Canfor announces 2 week shutdown for all its sawmills
Canfor is shutting down all 10 of its sawmills currently operating in B.C. over Christmas [...]
December 10, 2019
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B.C. mass timber suppliers see surging sales
As the B.C. commodity lumber sector shutters mills, the B.C. value-added sector serving mass timber construction is [...]
December 10, 2019
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Market conditions for U.S. hardwood in the Chinese market improve
Recently, the weakness of the U.S. hardwood industry has not improved, and shipments to China of various types of [...]
December 10, 2019
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Germany: Sales of wood products rise 1Q-3Q 2019 despite challenges
After nine months, the German timber trade sector increase its sales across all assortments by 2.5%. [...]
December 10, 2019
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Falling prices for sawlogs in Finland
Prices for sawlogs in Finland continued the downward trend in October 2019. The average price for pine sawlogs was EUR [...]
December 10, 2019
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