Deep in the forests of Borneo island, workmen from an Indonesian timber company fell a tree with a chainsaw, stick a red tag with a serial number onto it and attach a corresponding stub to the stump. This is all part of an arduous ...
Tags: Borneo island, Indonesian, timber, auditing process, illegal logging
Medium-sized sawmills in southern Germany were still not able to increase turnover in the final weeks of 2012. Numerous businesses accordingly claim to have closed out the 2012 financial year with losses. Many southern German sawmills have ...
Tags: sawmills, southern Germany, turnover, construction-timber
The onset of winter in the last few days has accelerated an already seasonal reduction in demand on the German sales markets for softwood lumber. Irrespective of this, there have been no major slumps in softwood prices in the last two ...
Tags: softwood, German demand, softwood market, softwood lumber
A Florida-based research company claims to have solved the question of deforestation by “creating” wood through combining plant cuttings and a special agent responsible for forming shells in nature. Blue Word Crete, which ...
Tags: market view, wood
The pressure on prices for imported softwood lumber has increased on the British market in the last few weeks, against the background of low demand and inflated supply. Buyers are now voicing concerns that lumber prices might continue to ...
Tags: lumber