Roundwood/Sawnwood

• Bangkirai stocks in import depots have decreased at an above-average rate
• First meranti arrivals from Malaysia after end of MCO
• Restrictions largely lifted for businesses in Malaysia
• Russian sawn softwood exports to China down 13%
• Swiss converters cutting industrial-wood intake
• Only sluggish demand for softwood logs in Austria
• Incidence of beetlewood increasing since early June in German forests
• Softwood sawlog exports two thirds up on last year
• Sawn-softwood sales still stable until middle of year

Wood products

• Poland: 2019 pellet production increases to 1.3m t
• USA: industrial pellet production slightly down

Wood-based panels

• Italian woodworking machinery firms face 21.1% dive in orders
• US plywood manufacturers file for temporary injunction
• USA accuses Vietnam of circumventing AD/CVD rules
• Canada reviewing punitive duties on plywood imports
• Maritime pine plywood prices maintained
• Slight decline only in Latvian plywood exports
• Okoumé plywood demand in Netherlands remains strong

Surfaces

• Decor paper manufacturers encounter only a small improvement in workloads in June
• Veneer makers cut output by furloughing workers
• Hymmen files patent suit against Barberán

Furniture

• Swedish furniture exports similar to last year
• Sweden exports less dining room furniture
• Turnover of US furniture trade drops by one fifth in May

Building products

• FEP members increased parquet output by 1.6% to roughly 78m m² last year
• FEP: three new members, two departures since June 2019

Companies

• Norske Skog Golbey now only using recovered paper
• Segezha boosts volume of sawn softwood sales by 9 %
• Setra supplying 1,700 m³ of CLT for Cederhusen project
• Rodenberg prepares first break bulk shipment
• ULK group awards contracts for sawmill and pellet works
• Enviva acquires Waycross pellet plant from Innogy
• CHH taking more restructuring measures in New Zealand
• Raute buys majority stake in the software company Hiottu
• Accsys’ Tricoya plant to start operation in early 2021
• Boise Cascade’s result impaired by works closure
• Lumin aiming to enlarge veneer and plywood capacity
• Operating permit for Bischweier mill expires
• German sales company founded by Paged Plywood
• Neodecortech delivers small growth in revenues
• Sharp decline registered in Sonae Arauco’s results