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20.10.2021
Roundwood/Sawnwood
- Sweden anticipating roughly 5m m³ of beetlewood for 2021
- Russian roundwood exports to China decrease
- New peaks reached by sawlog prices in Norway
- Numerous softwood sawmills aiming to reduce output
- Softwood lumber production increases further
- German planed-product exports increased 29% in Q2
- Industrial hardwood: talks still underway in many cases
- German forestry companies hesitantly begin harvesting beech roundwood
- Germany: demand pressure for oak intensifies
Wood products
- Central Europe: more increases ahead in market prices for A1 pellets
- Belarusian pellet exports increase at double-digit rate
- German pallet production down by 3.6% in second quarter
- Pallet prices undergoing downward adjustment again
Wood-based panels
- Minor increase in North American OSB prices
- Elliotis-pine plywood sourcing complicated by bottlenecks in container logistics
- Monthly export volume again drops below 10,000 m³
- Fourth ship from China due to arrive mid-November at earliest
- Brazilian plants investigate break bulk shipping
- Urea markets becoming increasingly challenging
- Methanol spot prices move closer to contract prices
Furniture
- Bedroom furniture: prices in logistics and upstream products sectors continue to rise
- Increase in Belgian furniture imports intensifies
- Dutch furniture trade achieves turnover growth of 6.4%
People
Pulp/Paper
Companies
- Binderholz planning to take over British wood-industry’s BSW Timber Group
- West Fraser to invest US$300m in buying sawmill
- GP spending about $120m to modernise Pineland sawmill
- HS Timber to build sawmill and pellet mill in Argentina
- Change of ownership at Holzindustrie Hassel
- Production and building work remain on hold at Cedar
- Segezha Group taking over Forest Rus for US$515m
- Segezha has become NLHK’s majority shareholder
- Ziegler to start insulating board output in August 2022
- Andritz delivering two refiner systems to Ziegler
- CalPlant applies to reorganise according to chapter 11
- Vente-unique.com raises its forecast for 2020/2021
- Schattdecor buys a 50% stake in Fine Decor GmbH
- Interprint Polska commissions fourth lacquering line
