Roundwood/Sawnwood

• Prices for Baltic softwood timber meanwhile a little lower than those asked in third quarter
• Estonia: Generally stable softwood sawlog prices
• Demand for softwood sawlogs exceeding supply
• Latvia: Further increase in roundwood prices
• Sharp increase registered in sales rate in Poland this year
• 11% increase in Spanish softwood lumber imports
• Forestry companies expect 2.8m m³ storm-damaged wood
• Sawmilling industry holding cutting activity at a high level
• Pulp mills accepting up to 16 % higher prices in follow-on contracts in spite of backlogs
• Higher beech-log volumes put out by forest businesses

Wood products

• Ongoing double-digit growth for German timber industry
• Demand for standard pallets slightly slower again since beginning of current quarter
• German pallet industry’s output boosted by 4.2 %
• Wood construction firms’ August sales revenue up 6.8 %

Wood-based panels

• USA: Further 65% increase in softwood plywood imports
• US hardwood plywood imports increase up to September
• Adhesive industry booked 2.0% growth in wood business
• Further more significant rise in Spanish plywood imports
• North American EWP output falls for first time in a while
• UNECE/FAO: Total production up at 147.5m m³

Surfaces

• Slower growth in the global market for decor paper during last year
• China makes more than 1m tonnes of decor paper
• Titanium dioxide manufacturers’ reductions in volumes partly offset by increases in prices

People

• People

Companies

• Conifex’ timber output raised by acquisitions
• Canfor aiming to acquire Elliot Sawmilling Co. Inc. for 110m US$
• West Fraser and Conifex also reduce lumber production
• Solikamskbumprom buying 53 log trucks
• Bergs Timber: EBITDA margin increases to over 10%
• Restricted production in UPM-Kymmene Plattling mill
• Bergvik Skog’s forests in Latvia purchased by Södra
• UPM-Kymmene reports fall in earnings from plywood
• Further decline in Metsä Wood’s sales revenue in Q3
• AFI’s wooden-flooring sales revenue still decreasing
• Forte records turnover decline in third quarter
• Nobia to implement restructuring programme
• Slow business impairs HNI turnover increase
• Raute’s receipts of orders reach last year’s level in Q3
• New Zealand lays foundation for China investment
• Andritz Pulp & Paper improves EBITA margin
• Centuryply only increases sales of laminated MDF
• Juken fleshes out Triboard investments in Kaitaia
• Kotkamills faces another slump in Industrial Products business
• Impress commissions new treating line in St Veit
• Boise Cascade ceasing LVL production in Roxboro
• Venator to close its titanium dioxide plant in Pori by 2021
• Fletcher Building sells Roof Tile Group to IKO
• Pfleiderer delivers stronger growth in Eastern Europe
• Broadview spent €170m on Westag & Getalit