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Decades of preferential state timber supply under investigation in Latvia

Latvia’s Competition Council has imposed a €7.86 million fine on state-owned Latvijas…

Decades of preferential state timber supply under investigation in Latvia

Latvia’s Competition Council has imposed a €7.86 million fine on state-owned Latvijas…

Latvia’s Stiga RM tops €100 million in revenue as investment strategy delivers results

Latvian wood products manufacturer Stiga RM Group exceeded €100 million in annual…

Latvijas Finieris plans €300 million birch plywood investment in eastern Latvia

Latvian birch plywood producer Latvijas Finieris is preparing one of the country’s…

Latvia’s €50 million timber scandal deepens as prosecutors move to overturn government support scheme

For more than two years, Latvia’s timber industry has been living with…

Latvia timber prices: spruce gains, pine stable, birch under pressure

Latvia’s roundwood market showed a divided price trend in the first five…

Latvia’s plywood exports on the rise in Q1/2026

Latvia’s plywood exports increased by 5% year-on-year in the first quarter of…

Latvia’s sawmills warn high log prices are undermining international competitiveness

Latvia’s wood-processing sector has weathered many market cycles over the past two…

Corruption probe shakes Latvia’s forestry sector over timber pricing scheme

Raivis Kronbergs has resigned as director of Latvia’s State Chancellery, just four…

Latvia’s timber industry tries to look beyond the slowdown

At the reopening of the renovated Verems plywood factory (in the photo…