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Harvesting companies and forest owners report large stocks in forests in Saxony. As in most areas affected by the January storm the problem in Saxony is the speed of removal of logs...... [more...]
The German Timber Trade Federation (GD Holz) reports an increase of the sales of distributors of +14% for the first quarter of 2007. The greatest increases are in sawntimber and panels...... [more...]
Mohawk Industries, Inc. will buy two pre-finished solid plants and one engineered wood plant in the U.S. and an engineered wood plant in Malaysia from Columbia Forest Products ...... [more...]
The continuous depreciation of the USD against the Brazilian Real (BRL) has strongly affected the sawnwood segment in Brazil. Exports of solidwood have fallen from 2.3 million/ton in the first third of 2005 to 1.8 million in the same period of 2007...... [more...]
Sales in most framing lumber species slowed toward the end of the week. But mills maintained leverage with order files through the month and the supply side limited by maintenance and ...... [more...]
According to German Federal Statistics Office, exports of oak logs went down from 87,300 m3 in the first 4 months of 2006 to 65,500 m3 for the same period in 2007. Exports of beech logs for the same period rose from 275,000 m3 last year to 340,700 m3 this year.
Log traders explain the reduction in oak log exports by…... [more...]