Russians Have Eluded U.S. Sanctions On Russian Birch

Decorative Hardwoods Association and Hardwood plywood made news in Washington recently as The Washington Post reported on Russian Birch imports by way of China and Vietnam. Earlier this year, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, DHA reported about large volumes of Birch plywood imports through Vietnam and noted this material was likely Russian. Now, […]

Newswires – December 2022

Mercersburg, Pennsylvania—Stoltzfus Forest Products of Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania is adding equipment to support its drying operations. This new equipment is being supplied by Mellott Manufacturing Co., Inc., a company based here. A number of stages of this installation are complete and in working order. The Stoltzfus family has been doing business with Mellott Manufacturing since […]

Who’s Who In Imports/Exports

Patrick Gagné is a sales representative (Ontario, U.S. East and West coasts) for Primewood, a hardwood lumber company based in Drummondville, Quebec. Primewood manufactures over 37 million board feet of Northern and North Appalachian hardwood lumber annually. Hard and Soft Maple, Cherry, Walnut, White Ash, Red and White Oak are the core group from which […]

Maximizing Market Access For U.S. Hardwoods Through Risk-Based Certification

During the NHLA Annual Convention this September in Cleveland, Ohio, AHEC presented details of on-going work to develop Sustainable Hardwood Certification (SHC) as a cost-effective solution to verify the sustainability of American Hardwoods and maximise market opportunities for our hardwood products. The SHC website is now live at www.shc-cert.org to explain why the new certification […]

Lumber futures rise on more Canadian sawmill curtailments

US lumber futures rose by the most allowed by exchange rules following…

Concern that increased Turkish wood pellet exports originate from Russia

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Sweden’s sawmills expected to further reduce capacity in 2023

In its latest Forestry Report for 2022, Handelsbanken looks back on the year and…

EU Commission agrees sale of Garnica to Carlyle

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition…

Steep harvesting

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Canada commits support to international forest restoration and next-gen forest leaders

Canada commits support to international forest restoration and next-gen forest leadersJennifer Ellson…