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In view of longer and longer hot spells, a German-Chinese research team is working on a new type of insulating foam based on wood, which is intended to reduce the heating up... [more...]
In order to give waste wood a maybe even longer second life a research team at the University of British Columbia has invented a treatment to turn it into so called "healed wood". The process... [more...]
The European joint project "Informa" with 14 project partners in eight countries analyzes to what extent modern forest management can help Europe's forests to bind and store... [more...]
Canada’s government wants to challenge the lately lowered US duties on softwood lumber, because of the “unjustified harm” those tariffs are causing. The US Commerce Department has... [more...]
Several birch plywood importers from the UK have reported an increase of offers from the far east in recent weeks, particularly China. Given that Birch forests are... [more...]
According to the current study by the Thünen Institute “Assessment of Possible Production Leakage from Implementing the EU Biodiversity Strategy on Forest Product Markets”, the economy and environment... [more...]
A new CSIL report highlights major structural changes in Europe’s furniture sector. Although some of the trends have been underway now for at least a decade, recent events have brought about accelerating change.... [more...]
Drax Group has signed an agreement with Princeton Standard Pellet Corporation (PSPC) to acquire its pellet plant in Princeton, British Columbia, Canada.... [more...]
BID Group will be partnering with Canfor Corporation to deliver a new state-of-the-art sawmill complex in southern Alabama. Through its industry-leading wood processing technologies and integrated solutions offering,... [more...]
The European Pellets Conference 2022 on April 6 in Wels, Upper Austria, as well as online, showed the more than 650 participants from 60 countries the current developments on the markets, in technology and politics. Speakers and audience discussed ways of optimal positioning in times of... [ more...]
The trade of logs and lumber in Europe will “change dramatically” in the coming years, with timber harvests having reportedly peaked in Central Europe.... [ more...]