The Spanish market for Scandinavian softwood lumber is currently characterised by very subdued business activity. A revival in demand due to replacement purchases at the end of the holiday period proofed to be short-lived after all. Demand ...
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SCA Timber will be closing the two softwood sawmills Vilhelmina and Holmsund with effect from 1 July 2013. The two closures mean that SCA will be withdrawing roughly 200,000 m3 of softwood-lumber production per year from the market; roughly ...
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In the middle of November companies within the sawmilling industry in Sweden made further announcements of their intention to reduce employee numbers. With reference to the difficult sales conditions on the international softwood lumber ...
Irrespective of what will probably be a 10% lower output of softwood lumber this year, forest owners in Austria were still registering consistently heavy demand for softwood sawlogs at the end of October. The majority of the sawmills are ...
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In the UK, prices for British and imported softwood lumber had stabilised at a low level by the end of October. Owing to slack demand and an inflated supply, prices had been under pressure since July. Business is generally being shaped by ...
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Southern and western German softwood lumber producers are of the opinion that business activity on German and foreign softwood lumber markets has not increased to any significant extent even now the summer holiday period is over. Although ...
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Southern and western German softwood lumber producers are of the opinion that business activity on German and foreign softwood lumber markets has not increased to any significant extent even now the summer holiday period is over. Although ...
Statistics contained in the latest UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2011-2012 indicate that softwood lumber consumption in the UNECE region (Europe, North America and former CIS countries) remained on its upward path in 2011. ...
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Softwood lumber suppliers are still not yet registering any fundamental upswing in demand even now the summer holidays are over in southern Germany. The number of enquiries received remained relatively low in the early days of September as ...
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The Austrian timber industry association believes Austria’s sawmills lost considerable market shares on export markets for softwood lumber in 2012. At the press conference at the 52nd “Internationale Holzmesse” in ...
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According to a forecast by the UK Timber Trade Federation, British softwood lumber imports in 2012 are going to be 3.4% lower than last year at 4.81m m³. As such, imports from Sweden will fall by 2% to 2.19m m³. A reduction of 13% ...
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Slack demand on the relevant European sales markets in the second quarter of 2012 caused German softwood lumber exports to fall by 12% against the same quarter of last year to a total of 1.339m m³. With the exception of the Czech ...
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Demand for softwood lumber remains slack in France even though the holidays are now over. With the exception of individual, though only minor replenishment purchases in the first few days after the holidays, French buyers’ purchasing ...
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At the end of August, central European buyers of Scandinavian softwood lumber were still acting very cautiously. According to information from market players, shippers have been able to arrange hardly any contracts for the third quarter. ...
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Exports of Finnish softwood lumber and planed goods in May 2012 showed year-on-year decline of roughly 7% to 588, 000 m³. According to Finnish Forest Industries deliveries to other European countries were also down by roughly 7% to ...
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