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  • Forestry
  • December 21, 2020 12:25

Stora Enso divests forest holdings in southern Sweden

As part of its forest land optimization, Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest forest assets located in southern Sweden to the forestry fund Silvestica Green Forest AB...... [more...]

  • Corona Virus
  • December 18, 2020 13:14

Prices of wood products start to rise in parts of Asia

The pandemic-caused container scarcitiy as well as the resulting increase of freight costs start showing their impact on the wood markets in Asia. But also other current effects are noticed. From the Fordaq network there comes information about several wood products whose prices... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • December 18, 2020 12:10

Ghana: Secondary products account for most wood product exports

Primary products (PWP), which are mainly billets (short logs), go to markets in Asia especially China and India and this group of products accounted for around 8.5% of first three quarter 2020 exports...... [more...]

Wood Construction
  • Wood Construction
  • December 18, 2020 11:14

Special high performance machinery set for Wooden Constructions from Mercator

The production of wooden houses and wooden carpentry has been reported as the only sector of the market BOOMING, due to pandemic situation...... [more...]

  • Wood Construction
  • December 18, 2020 10:06

U.S. housing starts increased sharply in November

U.S. homebuilding and permits increased solidly in November, pointing to sustained housing market strength even as the broader economic recovery is slowing amid a resurgence in new COVID-19 cases...... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • December 18, 2020 08:01

Resolute announces new president of wood products segment

Resolute Forest Products Inc. announced that Hugues Simon will join the company and be appointed as president of the wood products division as of March 1, 2021...... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • December 17, 2020 11:08

Sampsa Auvinen new Chair for CEI-Bois

The European Confederation of the Woodworking Industry held its winter 2020 General Assembly Meeting on the 9 of December 2020 in an online format...... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • December 17, 2020 09:47

Vietnam closer to VNTLAS implementation

On the 1st of September, 2020, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 102/2020/N?-CP to regulate the implementation of the Vietnam Timber Legality Assurance System (VNTLAS)... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • December 17, 2020 09:25

Södra to raise price of NBSK to USD 960/tonne

Södra Cell is increasing the price of its northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp in Europe to $960, effective 1 January 2021...... [more...]

  • Corona Virus
  • December 17, 2020 09:21

Indonesian plywood producers handle difficult market circumstances

Due to the container scarcity as well as a noticeable lack of orders from Europe Indonesian producers of premium plywood tend to focus more on the local market these days. So far this strategy enables them to maneuver the current situation while still... [more...]

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