Sawmills outside of the areas affected by the hurricane Xynthia must not hope to get any supplies of storm-fallen timber. Also markdowns are not realistic. On the contrary, contracts closed after the storm are showing slight price increases.
In the first two months massing snow has retarded the logging activities in Austria and log markets gathered pace. From sawmills a brisk demand for softwood saw logs developed.
Another forestry company, White Birch, has filed for bankruptcy protection throwing the lives of about 1,100 workers into turmoil, and the president of Canada's largest forestry union puts the blame squarely at the feet of the Harper government.
White Birch has newsprint mills in…
Stora Enso has signed a research and development cooperation agreement with
Metso and Domtar to establish a consortium to develop a pulp mill biorefinery.
The project, based on the latest pulping technology, aims to develop a pulp
production process with enhanced sustainability and…
On 19-21 March 2010 will be the fifth edition of the DREWOOD Fair. This event is bringing together representatives of the timber industry at home and abroad.
DREWOOD 2010 will be held traditionally in Wroclaw Centennial Hall, in parallel with the building Fair TARBUD.
The idea of the coexistence of both events is great for longer than three years. Fair visitors have got a chance to look at the offer presented by the exhibitors, which covers a broad spectrum of products and services from the timber and building industry. In one place, and time is presented close to 400 companies, making it easier for interested parties to review the news and trends in the industry.
In the previous edition of the total number of companies cited above events amounted to nearly 400, including the wood
In northeastern Germany prices for spruce and pine pulpwood started moving over the past weeks, as the running harvest is not able to meet the demand of the wood product industry and the pulp mills. Especially for OSB-timber demand exceeds supply.
Prices for logs used for mechanical pulp contracted in the middle of December by the state-owned forestry operation of Baden-Wuerttemberg (ForstBW) and the Finish paper producerUPM acted as an indicator. In the meantime more contracts were closed and a price of 27,90 €/rm became widely accepted.
Vyborgskaya Cellulose is building the world's largest wood pellet plant at its facility in Russia near the border with Finland. Production capacity will be over 900,000 tons per year. Construction of the plant is underway and production is planned to start in the third quarter of this year.
Vyborgskaya Cellulose has appointed Ekman & Co to be its exclusive sales agent. In addition to sales, Ekman & Co will also assist Vyborgskaya Cellulose with services in finance, risk management, logistics and administration.
The raw material for pellets consists primarily of logs from Russia and Belarus, which is partly FSC-certified. The timber will be supplied to…
In December 2009 producer prices for softwood lumber in Germany continued to decline compared with the previous month. Prices for hardwood lumber and wood-based panels remained steady on November level ...
