One of the major cost in forestry, pulp and basic industries are high electricity prices. Many of the major forestry companies are looking to secure its electricity needs for several years in the future. In the Nordic power exchange NordPool, the average price increased by 40 percent over the...
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Timber Community |
13 years 4 months ago
International Forest Industries |
13 years 4 months ago
More than 80 million tons of wood chips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are traded annually in the open market worldwide and the shipment volumes are increasing. The vast majority of traded wood chips are currently utilized for pulp production, but the volumes used to generate energy...
Terra Daily |
13 years 4 months ago
A new study finds a lack of transparency and corruption are reducing the impact of an initiative in Cameroon that channels a portion of national timber levies to rural forest communities. The study highlights the challenges of using a climate change pact to do something similar in forested regions...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 5 months ago
The recent positive trend in prices on wood products has turned. It started in early November when the Forest Owners' Association Norrskog lowered the price of pine logs with 35 SEK (Swedish crowns) and the price of spruce with 20 SEK per m3 (cubic meters over bark, ie, the log total volume...
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
In 2011 Karelia’s Ministry of Economic Development plans to attract about 20 bln rubles of state and private investments to the regional economy, what corresponds to the rates of 2010. Such rates are stipulated by the socio-economic development concept project of the republic for 2011-2015.
International Forest Industries |
13 years 5 months ago
Ruukki Group, a Finland-based company that focuses on wood-based industrial business operations, has scrapped its plans to build a large pulp mill and sawmill in the Kostroma Oblast in Russia. reports Helsingin Sanomat..The company did not accept the contract changes requested by the Kostroma...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 5 months ago
The advantage for Swedish sawmills has disappeared with the appreciation of the Swedish Crown. In order to adapt to the demand the forestry group Södra , which consists of 50 000 forest owners, has decided to halt production at all its ten sawmills from 23 December to 10 January writes the...
RUNA |
13 years 5 months ago
Business Support Bureau Runa monitors the Russian timber industry and the market for hot topics, news, expert opinion and relevant information and provides you with the most relevant and interesting information in the form of a free digest - to help you make the right business decision. With...
Timber Community |
13 years 5 months ago
There are no signs that the planned Russian timber duty increase to 50 euros per cubic meter from 1 January 2011 will be postponed said the Swedish Minister for Trade Ewa Björling when she spoke to the Swedish news agency Direkt. Bjorling refers to a recent meeting with the nordic trade...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 5 months ago
After some tough years, the economic crisis is over for the Baltic states, Poland and Russia, at least in terms of growth, according to Nordea´s Baltic Rim Outlook. Estonia's forthcoming accession of the euro underlines that a new era has begun for the Baltics. Exports have initially been the...
Engineering News |
13 years 5 months ago
Paper and packaging group Mondi expects to continue to deliver a strong performance in the last quarter of the year, but warned that the continued strengthening of emerging market currencies was impacting on the competitiveness of some of the group’s businesses. The group, led by CEO David...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 5 months ago
Wood chip indices are well suited for forest and energy companies who can use price indices for benchmarking and for the financial community, which can use the Indices as price risk management tools. More than 80 million tons of wood chips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are traded...
Timber Community |
13 years 5 months ago
The forest industry in China is continuing its expansion, and with limited domestic timber resources, importation of logs and wood chips are at an all-time high, especially as tight supply of domestic logs has increased local log prices to new highs.
International Forest Industries |
13 years 5 months ago
Global MDF capacity reached 72.9 million m3 in 2009 - an increase of 4.0 million m3 (+5.8%) over 2008. In 2009, China remains the world’s largest MDF-producing country at 32.5 million m3 - that’s 45% of world capacity! As reported earlier this year by WOOD MARKETS, China’s MDF capacity has been...
Timber Community |
13 years 6 months ago
Lumber futures rose the maximum permitted by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday, reaching a four month high, as the U.S. disputes the pricing of wood imported from Canada, the biggest foreign supplier reports Bloomberg. British Columbia is “under-pricing” timber from public lands and “...
RISI |
13 years 6 months ago
LONDON, Okt. 8, 2010 (Viewpoint) - RISI will hold its second Indian seminar in Chennai on December 1, 2010, and the focus will be (as it should) on India's dynamic pulp and paper sector. However, India's rapidly growing economy and vast army of low-cost labor indicates great...
ForestTalk |
13 years 6 months ago
The United States has requested consultation with Canada under the Softwood Lumber Agreement. At issue is the apparent unfair under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in the Interior region of British Columbia. The U.S. feels that British Columbia is providing to softwood lumber...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 6 months ago
2 October 2010, London, UK - "Greenwashing"—over-promoting your "green" credentials—is one of today’s headline-grabbers. What are the facts? What’s right? What’s wrong? Who decides? Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine, a leading US publication, recently ran a webinar where two experts...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 6 months ago
According to Zhang Jianlong, deputy administrator of the State Forestry Administration, China's total timber consumption will increase from 457 million cu. m in 2009 to 477 million cu. m for 2010, and the demand for timber imports for domestic consumption will grow from 100 million cu. m to 150...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 6 months ago
Seattle, USA. September, 2010. Despite slower lumber export sales, sawlog prices in Sweden continued upward in the 2Q, reaching their highest levels on record in local currency. Log prices have increased faster in the southern part of the country where both sawlogs and pulpwood prices are now...