GWMI’s Top 20 most-read stories of August 2026

August brought a sharper divide between weak demand and an increasingly constrained…

IKEA’s answer to Europe’s furniture slump: Cut prices!

IKEA is launching a major price-cutting programme across Europe, committing EUR 1.2…

James Jones seeks European or North American buyer for Australian CLT producer XLAM

James Jones & Sons is looking for a new owner for XLAM,…

EUDR meets a changing tropical timber market

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

German sawmill industry: What to expect for the remainder of 2026?

Germany’s softwood sawmill industry is heading into the final four months of…

Major Austrian sawmill files for insolvency

Austrian sawmill and wood-processing company Schaffer Holz has filed for insolvency with…

Holmen cuts Linghem sawmill output by 64% in weakest lumber market in 30 years

Holmen will cut production at its Linghem sawmill in Sweden by almost…

Pfeifer Nordics remains loss-making three years after Pölkky acquisition

Pfeifer Nordics, the Finnish wood processing company formerly known as Pölkky, reported…

Segezha margins collapse as refinery attacks disrupt fuel supplies in Russia

Segezha Group reported a sharp deterioration in its first-half results as weak…

UPM spins off 785,000 m³ plywood business into WISA Group

UPM shareholders have approved the separation of the group’s plywood and veneer…