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Pete Stewart: Jan 25, '23
The global forest industry has experienced some serious changes across the past year. As we saw in our 2022 global forest industry predictions post,...
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Tim Woods: Dec 28, '22
Australia’s combined annual exports of hardwood and softwood woodchips for the year-ended September 2022 were recorded at 5.723 million bone dried...
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Håkan Ekström: Oct 13, '22
Global trade of softwood logs plunged by 20% during the first half of 2022 year-over-year (YoY). Much of the decline was because of the Russian log...
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Håkan Ekström: Oct 2, '22
A halt in Russian log exports and reduced wood demand in China contributed to a 20% decline in international softwood log trade in the first half of...
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Håkan Ekström: Sep 15, '22
Performance across 2022 has thus far seen global impacts from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Demand instability continues to affect all major areas...
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Håkan Ekström: Sep 1, '22
Global trade of softwood lumber fell about 10% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Most of the decline was driven by lower...
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Håkan Ekström: Aug 17, '22
Prices for pulplogs and wood chips increased QoQ in early 2022 in all 19 regions worldwide as tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). This...
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Håkan Ekström: Jul 7, '22
Global trade of softwood lumber slowed in early 2022, in particular lumber headed to China, the US, and Germany, where import volumes were down in...
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Håkan Ekström: Jul 6, '22
China’s importation of logs and lumber plunged by over 50% from 4Q/21 to 1Q/22 as GDP fell sharply. China's economy weakened in the 1Q/22 as the...
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Håkan Ekström: Jun 2, '22
Global trade of softwood lumber slowed in early 2022, in particular lumber headed to China, the US, and Germany, where import volumes were down in...
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Håkan Ekström: Jun 1, '22
As 2022 presses onward, timber markets have experienced mixed growth in early 2022 with factors such as Russian instability affecting the global...
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Pete Stewart: Apr 1, '22
Much like the previous year, the global forest products industry underwent significant changes in 2021 – some expected, and some unexpected. However,...
