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Europe’s sawmill downturn takes a toll on smaller businesses as insolvencies and bankruptcies spread

The difficulties facing Europe’s wood industry extend to small and medium-sized businesses,…

GWMI Interviews: US South timber market increasingly uneven as mill closures cut wood demand

The US South remains one of the world’s most important timber-producing regions,…

Moelven’s Swedish network shrinks as profitability collapses

Moelven is facing one of the most difficult periods in its recent…

Sweden’s sawmill closures accelerate as production shifts to fewer, larger plants

Sweden’s sawmill sector is going through one of its sharpest restructuring phases…

Forest leases become a new risk for Russian sawmills

Russian timber companies are calling for changes to new forest-management rules that…

Softwood lumber prices support French sawmills as hardwood demand stays weak

France entered the second half of 2026 with an increasingly divided sawmill…

GWMI Forecast: Swedish sawmills face a difficult winter despite falling log prices

Sweden’s sawmill sector is likely to spend the remainder of 2026 reducing…

Norra Skog absorbs losses to keep wood prices paid to forest owners unchanged

Swedish forest owners’ association Norra Skog recorded a loss during the first…

The sawmill shutdown list spreading across North America

North America entered September with a growing list of sawmill closures and…

Internationaler Holztag 2026: Austria’s sawmills look to Italy as the domestic construction slump drags on

From Klagenfurt: Global Wood Markets Info (GWMI) attended Internationaler Holztag 2026, where…