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Several plywood mills in Malaysia and Indonesia were forced to stop production due to serious supply shortage, while all mills are in danger by the high log costs and the low sales prices for plywood products in both countries... [more...]
Softwood sawlog prices declined throughout the world in the 3Q/18. Consequently, the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) fell 3.7% from the 2Q/18 to the 3Q/18, the second consecutive q-o-q decline... [more...]
Softwood lumber exports from the European Union countries to China went down by -26% during January-September 2018 from last year's same period of time... [more...]
The US sawmill company Westervelt, based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has finalized its plans for a second sawmill. A second sawmill is being built in Thomasville... [more...]
Metsä Fibre and EcoEnergy SF have signed an agreement concerning the ownership of the biogas plant located in Metsä Group’s mill area in Äänekoski, Finland... [more...]
During the Board of Directors meeting held on December 6, Mr Jacques Rougier announced that he was standing down from his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors... [more...]
According to information provided by the Association of Exporters (ADEX), as of August 2018 exports of Peruvian wood products totalled almost US$80 million FOB... [more...]
The Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE) recently made available online its publication “Myanmar Timber Chain of Custody Process, Documents and Actors”, the so-called ‘Dossier’. This describes the documents and procedures applied at every step of the entire supply chain from harvesting to port of export. The aim of making this available was to enable exporters and authorities in importing countries understand how Myanmar manages information in the timber supply chain... [more...]