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Seven months into 2021 and volumes of timber and panels imported by the UK were nearly 2 million m³ higher than the first seven months of 2020...... [more...]
Similar to this time last year, when lumber prices started rising to reach what was then the all-time historical high, solid wood construction materials prices have been ticking up in the past few weeks. ..... [more...]
Koskisen will carry out an investment in Kärkölä, Finland, worth Euro 48 million, with production scheduled to start up in summer 2023....... [more...]
This year's edition of the World BioEconomy Forum will take place from October 18-20 in Belem, Brazil, as well as online. This time, the international platform for everything to do with the bioeconomy will address social, financial and political framework conditions and requirements... [more...]
Jukka Kantola, founder and president of the World BioEconomy Forum, gave a lecture on biorefineries and new organic products in Europe at the Wood Industry Summit digital. The industry expert and front man of an active network of bioeconomists explained to the audience... [more...]
On October 6, 2021, W. & L. Jordan integrated the Dutch wholesaler Viehoff Fournituren BV into the Jordan Group with retroactive effect from January 1, 2021.
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The Binderholz Group, based in Fügen, Tyrol, is planning to purchase the British BSW Timber Ltd. based in Earlston, Scotland. After the closing, which is expected to take place this year...... [more...]
The Swedish gross felling in 2020 amounted to just over 93 million cubic meters standing volume according to previously published preliminary statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency....... [more...]
It has been another extraordinary year in the softwood market since the International Softwood Conference (ISC) was held completely online for the first time in 2020. On October 14th 2021 the 69th edition went hybrid – welcoming 200 participants in Helsinki and further 100 online... [ more...]
At the Ligna Forum Digital, four industry experts discussed the prospects for CLT production and discussed the potential in technology, product development and sales markets for the increasingly popular wooden building elements. 3.5 million m3 / yr of CLT capacity is currently available globally and it will soon be possible to produce 5 million m3 / yr with 130 production lines worldwide... [ more...]
Lumber futures have hit $628 per thousand board feet (mbf), the Wall Street Journal has reported. Prices are now up nearly 40% since late August and are almost as high as their pre-pandemic levels...... [ more...]