With falling home prices and slowing growth, Beijing already has plenty on its plate. Such challenges are now fueling concerns about how the current Russian currency turmoil will impact the world’s second largest economy, and ...
Tags: Currency Depreciation, home prices, rubble
Madagascar's new leader vowed Wednesday to toughen his government's crackdown on the illegal trafficking of precious woods from the Indian Ocean island. Hery Rajaonarimampianina said he would personally "wage this battle against the ...
Tags: Madagascar, Illegal Logging, rosewood
The Swiss Federal Council has tabled a proposal to amend Switzerland's environmental protection law, which includes introducing national legislation similar to the EU Timber Regulation. This step was reported in the autumn edition of the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The downward trend in imports of tropical wood to the EU remained unabated in the first four months of 2013. According to information from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), this applies to practically all the main ...
Tags: Wood, Construction
Following a weak first quarter, German timber dealers organised in the GD Holz (General German Timber Trading Association) have seen a surge in demand across all ranges in April. According to a press release published by the association on ...
Tags: Substantial, Timber Trade
A new international communications and information platform for the wood sector will be created in the form of the Global Timber Forum (GTF). At the first meeting in Rome, Italy, on 22 and 23 May, representatives of various international ...
Tags: wood sector, wood, GTF Meeting
According to figures drawn up by the Gesamtverband Deutscher Holzhandel (GD Holz – General German Timber Trading Association) turnover generated by the German timber trade in 2012 showed year-on-year growth of 1.5% to a good ...
Tags: Gesamtverband Deutscher Holzhandel, Timber Trading, timber
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 European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) entering into force on the 3 March 2013 will make it a legal obligation for the packaging industry to do its bit in the fight against illegal logging. What do producers and users of packaging ...
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
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% ...
Tags: market view, softwood lumber
The German timber trade has shown turnover growth across all ranges and sales channels iof 3.3% in the first six months of 2012. According to GD Holz timber wholesale, with an increase in revenues of 4.5%, showed particular improvement, ...
Tags: market view, timber
First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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The timber trade has given further positive reaction to the publication of the Independent Panel on Forestry’s final report to government. As reported in TTJ, the panel has made the bold recommendation that incentives be used to ...
Tags: market view, timber, panel
Roger Collins, who was semi-retired but still active in the timber trade, has died. Mr Collins's career in the timber trade began with Lathams, first in London and then in the north-east. On returning to London in the 1960s, Mr Collins ...
Tags: market view, timber