Difficulty in obtaining supplies of roundwood from February up to and including April have resulted in production at Russian sawmills showing slight decline of 1.8% to roughly 6.6m m3 in the first four months of 2013. In April , production ...
Tags: Lumber, 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
German sawmills and industrial-scale planing mills have reduced their output sometimes significantly in the first quarter of 2012 against the background of excessive supply and insufficient demand on the domestic and most foreign sales ...
Tags: market view, Softwood lumber
Canadian Western Forst Products intends to invest $16m by the middle of 2013 in the modernisation of its Saltair sawmill in Ladysmith. The most important improvements will be the cutting line and the trimming facilities. Furthermore ...
Tags: market view, softwood lumber
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
With a plus of 4% to roughly 115.7m m³, North American lumber production increased in 2011 for the second year in succession, although the upward trend weakened in comparison to that seen in 2010, which had shown a year-on-year rise of ...
Tags: market view, lumber