Month: March 2024

161 posts

European countries boosted softwood lumber exports to China in 2023

China Customs has reported 2023 lumber  imports totalled 27.78 million cubic meters…

Vietnamese wood industry expects rising exports this year

Vietnam’s wood and forestry sector is aiming to export 15.2 billion USD…

Test of time: Sigurdson Forest Product’s decades of resilience

Test of time: Sigurdson Forest Product’s decades of resilienceMonica Dick British Columbia’s…

Unlocking Happiness with Nature and Building Science

It has a name: Biophilia. It means “love of life or living things,” and it was coined by social psychologist Erich Fromm in 1964.  But designers and architects have intuitively known that connecting our loving spaces to other living spaces is a recipe for happy humans. Writer Katie Scott recently penned a nice overview of […] The post Unlocking Happiness with Nature and Building Science appeared first on NELMA.

Mood in the German wood industry further deteriorates

The mood in the German wood industry deteriorated further in February. Companies…

Duties to be imposed on Russian birch plywood coming from Turkey and Kazakhstan

The European Commission is to impose duties on Russian birch plywood products…

UPM announces negotiations on possible temporary layoffs

The negotiations will affect over 2,200 employees at all the forestry firm’s…

UK’s softwood timber imports perform well despite challenging markets

Despite the challenging end to 2023 seen across the construction sector, UK…

Indian woodbased panel producers set to do well in 2024

2023 it has been estimated that MDF consumption in India was around…

Northeast Business Trends

By Cadance HansonStaff Writer While two out of three lumber sources in the Northeastern states agreed that business was “soft” in the first quarter of 2024 thanks to wintry weather, all three lumbermen were optimistic when looking toward the future. As of press time, a Massachusetts source, who sells Douglas Fir, Eastern White and Idaho […]