In north-western Russia, the profit situation in numerous sawmills has become more critical in recent weeks, as overpriced roundwood is contrasted by low lumber prices. In the Archangelsk region, softwood sawlogs are currently priced at an ...
Despite minor reductions in demand in the fourth quarter of 2012, oak sawmills appear to be generally satisfied with business last year as a whole. Demand also picked up in January. The slightly lower sales generated at the end of the year ...
Tags: oak sawmills, sawmills, timber trade
The rate of cutting at most German sawmilling businesses rate of cutting was largely back to the normal level for the time of year by the end of January. For a certain number of sawmills, especially those oriented towards export, there are ...
Tags: cutting, sawmilling businesses, Germany
The Canadian timber group Interfor aims to take over the Wood Products Business division of Rayonier for around US$80m. The deal essentially includes the three Rayonier sawmills in Georgia, USA, which boast a combined capacity of 360 ...
Canfor is investing Can$80m in its sawmill activities in British Columbia this year. Of this sum, approximately Can$40m are to be invested in the Mackenzie location. As the company announced on 18 January, it intends to adapt and modernise ...
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
By the end of 2012, Klausner Holding USA had received the air permits required for all three of the potential sawmilling facilities it has been planning to build in the USA. After Live Oak, this also gives Klausner the opportunity to ...
Swiss industrial-wood processing companies and exporters have sharply reduced prices for industrial wood. The action came as a surprise for many forest owners, forestry companies, and log merchants. In many cases, suppliers were given ...
Tags: Swiss industrial wood, prices Down 10 percent, construction
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 ...
Tags: SCA Timber, softwood sawmill, softwood-lumber production
Pine sawmills in northern/eastern Germany have been registering slightly better sales opportunities in export within and outside Europe again in the last few weeks. In contrast to competitors on the home market from the spruce regions, ...
Tags: pine, pine sales, german pine, market abroad
21.11.2012 − At 1.771 million m3 Russia has delivered 2% more roundwood to the EU in the first six months of 2012 than in the same stretch in 2011. In doing so, the country was able to more than offset lower deliveries to Finland, the ...
Tags: roundwood exports, pulp industries, sawmill industries
On the heels of Modern’s annual pallet usage reader survey and a related webcast, I had an opportunity to talk to Howe Wallace, the CEO of PalletOne. Headquartered in Bartow, Florida, and with over $200 million a year in revenue, ...
Tags: pallet, pallet manufacturer
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 ...
Tags: market view, Softwood log
The slight reduction emerging in demand for medium assortments of oak lumber since the middle of September continued unabated in the first two weeks of October and even gathered pace in some places. The delivery volumes of these assortments ...
Tags: market view, oak lumber
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 ...
Tags: market view, sawmilling