UK timber market recovery remains elusive in 2026

The UK timber market is moving through another difficult year. Expectations of…

Danish specialist timber merchant to enter bankruptcy

Danish specialist timber merchant PrimaTræ has been placed into bankruptcy after little…

New Zealand sawmills raise sawn timber prices as domestic demand improves

New Zealand sawmills are entering the Southern Hemisphere spring with a considerably…

Metsä Group and Stora Enso reject platform handling 20 million m³ of Finnish timber

Around 15–20 million m³ of timber sales handled annually by Finland’s forest…

GWMI Market Pulse September: Weak demand, shrinking supply and an increasingly fragile balance

Global Wood Markets Info reviewed recent discussions with sawmill operators, lumber traders,…

Klagenfurt 2026: Europe’s timber market is not short of wood – it is short of demand and money

The 58th International Timber Fair in Klagenfurt brought together more than 500…

Up to 7 million m³ of damaged timber puts French wood markets under pressure

Southern France is facing an exceptional accumulation of damaged timber after two…

EUDR meets a changing tropical timber market

EUDR will change the conditions for selling tropical timber into the EU…

Massive timber volumes leave France facing oversupply this autumn

The wildfires that swept through southwest France in July are about to…

China’s $2 trillion forestry plan could reshape global wood trade routes

China’s new five-year forestry plan could have consequences well beyond its domestic…