Roundwood/Sawnwood

• Ghana: Timber exports also increased in Q2
• Forest fires in British Columbia meanwhile up to 12,985 km²
• USA concludes hearings on additional customs duty
• Turkey: Duty on US wood imports with tariff no. 4401
• Finnish sawnwood exports to China down by 50%
• 1.5m m³ of beetlewood expected in southern Sweden
• Mellanskog further increases prices for industrial softwood
• On-stump sales in Belarus to rise by 6 % in 2019
• Russia: Decrease in lumber exports to Japan
• Lithuanian exports of softwood lumber up by 7%
• Bark beetles: Ministry allows more seasonal workers
• Austria: 9% increase in softwood lumber production
• Estimates of beetle-damaged wood for 2018 meanwhile in excess of 20m m³
• Green-timber marketing largely at a standstill in southern and western regions of Germany
• DFWR: Storm and beetle damage amounts to 2bn €
• Marketing lower grades of timber becoming increasingly difficult for sawmilling industry

Wood-based panels

• Stable import prices still for Chinese plywood
• Indonesian 4mm plywood still in scant supply
• Birch plywood more expensive from October onwards
• Italy exported more particleboard to the US again
• Brazil: Double-digit growth rates in June and July
• Stable contract prices look to be the result of the latest particleboard contract talks
• Kronospan and Hornbach call P3 particleboard back

Surfaces

• Strong competition still prevails for rift sawn and thick oak veneers
• ICLDI to hold next assembly in Dublin

Companies

• BMK installing a third treating line at Welcome site in North Carolina
• Klausner group files appeal against state-aid ruling
• Mellanskog’s performance figures impaired by weather
• Norrskog’s result more than doubled in first half-year
• Valmet wins contract from Burgo to rebuild PM 9
• Stora Enso investing 13m € in Launkalne sawmill
• Significant improvement in Moelven Timber profit
• Moelven building pellet works in Sokna for 270m NOK
• Ekoinvest: Charges filed against Leibold und Wiedmer
• WUN Energie: Pellet plant to start test operations
• Katerra to start producing CLT in Spokane in 2019
• Jozo Jovic sells Otok veneer plant to Pervanovo
• Ply Gem to acquire PVC activities from Andersen
• Carmanah to deliver two more stranders to Asia
• Pfleiderer Group buys back another 7.543 million shares
• Ply Gem and NCI Building Systems want to merge
• Surteco entities merged into Surteco GmbH
• Growing signs of plans to sell Wilsonart International
• Venator to acquire Tronox’s paper business
• MDF Recovery: First MDF recycling plant by 2020
• Biosyl commissions second ClassiSizer