GWMI at ISC 2026 — Part 3: Russia’s export retreat, Japan’s changing demand and the pressures on MENA trade

Russia’s sawmills face a smaller export market and deteriorating profitability. Japan still…

GWMI at ISC 2026, Part 1: Europe’s softwood industry waits for a recovery that keeps slipping

Reporting from the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Dublin | 29 October 2026 |…

GWMI live from ISC 2026: Europe’s softwood industry waits for a recovery that keeps slipping

Reporting from the Grand Hotel, Malahide, Dublin | 29 October 2026 |…

GWMI Interviews: Jonas Karlsson, Sales & Market Director at Södra, on sawlog prices, export markets and the 2027 outlook

Following a recent visit by GWMI to Södra’s integrated industrial site in…

GWMI visits Södra: inside Värö’s sawmill and the forests behind it

Our visit to Södra began in the forest. Before the automated saw…

GWMI Forecast: Europe’s wood industry enters final 2026 and 2027 with less capacity, stubborn log costs and weaker export outlets

Europe’s wood industry is approaching the final quarter of 2026 without the…

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…

Lithuanian MDF/HDF plant pushes Homann deep into the red

Homann Holzwerkstoffe recorded a sharp deterioration in earnings in the first half…

GWMI Interviews: Tino Aalto, Managing Director of the Finnish Sawmills Association, discusses the outlook for Finland’s sawmills and Europe’s forest industry

GWMI InterviewS Global Wood Markets Info spoke with Tino Aalto, Managing Director…

Why an Austrian sawmill dynasty is buying into Scandinavia?

There is a certain irony in the fact that HS Timber Group’s…