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Roundwood production in EU could decrease sharply due to biodiversity strategy

If less wood is harvested in European forests to protect biodiversity, this…

Hungary eases logging rules to prepare for energy shortages

Hungary waived environmental regulations protecting native forests from logging in order to…

Rumours that Russian birch plywood enters the European market through China

Several birch plywood importers from the UK have reported an increase of…

Finland reduced the export of timber products by 7%

in January-May 2022, wood imports in Finland amounted to 2.43 million m³. On…

Germans are stocking wood in the middle of the summer as gas supplies remain tight

The recent frequency of the German word Versorgungssicherheit (supply security) shows that…

Unprecedented period of change in European wooden furniture sector

The last two and half years, marked from the start of 2020…

European lumber exports might decline by a half due to the war in Ukraine

One immediate impact of the war in Ukraine is a tighter market…

Finland warns energy crisis could curb forest, chemical industry, close factories

Finland’s forestry and chemical industry companies are currently doing everything they can…

Russian timber, timber product exports likely to see double-digit decline in second half

Russian sawn timber exports, which have been sanctioned by the EU along…

Log demand in China remains weak at the moment

China softwood log inventory has remained stable at about 5.0M. Daily port…