The first Saudi Wood Expo aims to elevate Saudi Arabia’s wood industry

The exhibition will feature more than 130 exhibitors from 30 countriesRIYADH: The inaugural Saudi Wood Expo at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center from Sept. ...

Germany: Exports of beech wood continue to increase in H1 2024

Germany: Growth in beech sawn timber exportsIn the first six months of 2024, around 200,000 m3 of sawn beech wood was exported, 12% more than in the same period of the previous ye ...

EUDR regulations may affect wood products shipments to Europe

The new EU Deforestation Regulation mandates exporters to provide detailed documentation and geolocation data to prove wood products are deforestation-freeNew regulations governin ...

Cameroon Timber Production Set to Decline by September 2024

Forestry activities in Cameroon are expected to decline between July and September 2024 due to decreased demand, according to the Central African States Bank (BEAC) economic outlo ...

Vietnam's Timber and wood product exports gross US$9.5 billion by mid-August

Vietnamese timber and wood product exports from January to August 15 surged by 24% to reach US$9.5 billion against the same period from last year, according to the General Departm ...

EU Countries Triple OSB Exports To US

During the first half of 2024, the value of European Union exports of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) to the United States rose notably, reaching EUR 89.8 million. This marks a substa ...

German Pellet Prices Weekly Report 20 August

Berlin - Pellet prices have continued to fall for months. Is this trend set to continue? An overview of today's prices (20 August).Date pellet prices per tonnePellet prices on 13 ...

EU imports the highest amount of softwood from Ukraine in H1 2024

According to new data published by Eurostat—the European Union’s statistics bureau, Ukraine is the largest source of EU softwood imports. Up to 40 per cent of all softwood enterin ...

U.S. Furniture still down, but closes YOY gap in DOC’s July report

Furniture and home furnishings sales continued shrinking the year-over-year gap in the Department of Commerce’s advance monthly estimates report for July.For the month, the catego ...

CFL Flooring Announces Expansion with New Factory in North Vietnam

CFL Flooring (Creative Flooring Solutions), the world’s leading manufacturer of SPC and hybrid flooring products, is thrilled to announce the construction of its new manufacturing ...

Sunds Fibertech and S. Kijchai Enterprise partner to expand MDF production in Thailand

In late June 2024, Sunds Fibertech and S. Kijchai Enterprise solidified their partnership with the signing of contracts for the delivery of a “Scorpion” MDF Dryer and the latest g ...

Wood beats cardboard in the competition for sustainable packaging: Fedemco

Wooden packaging performs better than cardboard in a life cycle assessment, particularly in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, ecotoxicity, food safety and water consumption.Woode ...

India's Century Plyboards Mulling Price Hike In Q2

The company's net profit fell 60.86% year-on-year to Rs 34.1 crore in Q1 FY25.Century Plyboards India Ltd. is expected to hike prices across categories to contain the margins afte ...

Vietnam's timber export revenue up 21% year-on-year in seven months this year

Vietnam's wood industry has showed signs of recovery in the first months of 2024, and this positive trend continues, bolstered by an increase in orders from traditional markets an ...

Chilean forest product shipments up 5% in H1

A mix of higher volumes and better pulp prices explained the result. China captured 36.5% of shipments.Forestry exports increased by 4.9% year-on-year during the first half of 202 ...

China furniture sales increased by 2.6% year-on-year in the first half of the year

The National Bureau of Statistics of China released the main data on the total retail sales of consumer goods in June. From January to June, the total retail sales of consumer goo ...

Brazil to allow miles of selective logging in effort to preserve the Amazon

Brazil’s Forest Service has announced a plan to bring a massive area of Amazon rainforest currently vulnerable to illegal deforestation under national governance TuesdayBRASILIA, ...

Ghana's timber industry Shortage of raw materials

Timber Millers Warn Of Imminent Collapse Of Ghana's Timber Industry Due To Raw Materials Shortage-- The Ghana Timber Millers Organisation has warned of a shortage of timber raw ma ...

Nearly 40% Vietnam's timber exports to the US

The U.S. market accounts for nearly 40 percent of Vietnam’s total wood export turnover, which was heard at a seminar on greening logistics and FIATA World Congress 2025 in Hanoi o ...

India's timber market shows signs of weakness

According to related reports, Indian traders are now buying far fewer quantities of lumber, roundwood and furniture as the country's booming real estate economy is slowing down.Ac ...

Global Trade Alert：SriLanka Trading Alert

Event: The buyer declaimed of no financial ability to pay the balance payment when the goods have arrived in the destination port. Finally, the buyer as the first beneficiary acco ...