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Sawlog Supply Tight in US South with Long-Term Opportunities Ahead

The US South’s softwood industry has enormous potential for a variety of reasons. The region has a significant forest resource with room for...

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Southern Timber Prices Continued to Climb in 1Q2022

Continuing the strong demand trend that we witnessed during most of 2021, the weighted average price for southern timber surged to a new 15-year high...

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A new boost to the push towards carbon neutrality: Free white paper

Just as Covid-19 ushered in social distancing and further digitised our world by making contactless payment mandatory, Russia’s war on Ukraine could...

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Sustainability Boost from Promising Profit: Concept to Reality Bio-PET

The largest PET producers reported extraordinary results in 2021 and Q1 2022. Along with improved profitability, all the companies provide extended...

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Polycarbonates from Renewable Hydrocarbons

It’s no secret that plant-based polycarbonate (PC) can be problematic. Not only does the plastic demonstrate complex technical properties, developing...

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Plastic Packaging Material That Is Both Sustainable and Biodegradable

Ideally, plastic packaging should be both biodegradable and produced in a sustainable way, but this is rarely the case. Bio-PET is partially...

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Biobased Monopropylene Glycol: The Bumpy Road to a Decarbonized World

Monopropylene glycol (MPG) – often called simply propylene glycol – is essential to a wide range of products across a variety of industries and...

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War in Russia Reduces Exports, Tightens Market

The war in Ukraine will tighten lumber markets both short and long term, particularly in Europe but also in China and the US. One immediate impact of...

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Case Study: Demonstrating the Sustainability of a Working Forest

To the casual onlooker, it seems counterintuitive that harvesting and utilizing trees could result in increased forest sustainability. At a granular...

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Biobased Succinic Acid: Is the Sustainable Route Becoming Economically Viable Once More?

A renewable technology hailed as revolutionary in the 2010s may emerge as a choice route to deliver key intermediate chemicals in the future. When...

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Sustainable Routes to Polyurethane

It could be considered one of the plastics world's most contradictory materials. Notoriously under-recycled due to technical difficulty, polyurethane...

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Sowing What You Reap: Replanting After a Timber Harvest

Advocacy for the myriad benefits of working forests is increasingly important, and Forest2Market strongly believes that replanting after a harvest is...

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