The spring forecast by the Pellervo Economic Research Institute (PTT) in Finland predicts rising softwood lumber exports and higher selling prices for 2013. Overall, the Finnish sawmilling industry’s profitability is expected to be ...
Tags: Lumber Prices, Lumber Exports
Loscam is planning for significant expansion of its pallet rental business in Asia and as such is looking to work with leading sawmillers NF McDonnell in Australia to satisfy its growing timber demand. "As our business continues to expand ...
Several sawmills in North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) are checking to see of log deliveries to Klausner group can be prevented with the aid of competition law. For this reason roughly ten businesses with a combined cutting capacity of almost 1m ...
Tags: sawmills, log deliveries, log
The Brazilian Ministry for Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) is considering imposing a series of measures to promote the country’s plywood and sawmilling industry, according to the International Tropical Timber ...
Tags: plywood, sawmilling industry, wood products
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
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 ...
Extensive stoppages in the German sawmilling industry and the simultaneous interruptions in business in the building and value-adding sectors have been the cause of heavily restricted activity on the domestic softwood lumber markets in the ...
Tags: sawmilling
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 ...
In a joint study, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Russian government forecast an increase in Russia's volume of felled logs and growth in its output of lumber, wood-based panels, pulp, and paper until 2030. In the best ...
Tags: lumber, wood-based panels, pulp, paper
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 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
The pressure exerted by volumes on the markets for TMP woodchips until well into July has gradually waned in the last few weeks. The supply has decreased perceptibly due to the holiday-related production stoppages and reduced shifts in the ...
Tags: market view, woodchips
Softwood sawlog prices continued their slide throughout the world in the 2Q/12, and the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was down for the fourth consecutive quarter to $82.90/m3. The Index was down 3.4 % from the 1Q/12, and 11.5 % from ...
Tags: market view, lumber, consumption
Softwood prices in broad sweeps of Austria in the third quarter 2012 remain more or less at the level that applied at the middle of the year. In many cases the sawmilling industry went into the negotiations conducted until the end of July ...
Tags: market view, softwood log, price
A limited availability of logs, high log purchase prices, and negative effects on sales of softwood lumber by the general economic and financial crisis have been hampering the business activity of softwood lumber producers in the European ...
Tags: industry trends, softwood lumber