Growth in foreign-trade surplus in sawn softwood

The figures for German sawn-softwood exports both within and outside Europe show contrasting development for the fourth quarter of 2022 as well. Whereas exports outside Europe slumped by 27% to 0.862m m³ (Oct.-Dec. 2021: 1.176m m³), the provisional figures from the federal  statistics office (Destatis) in Wiesbaden...

In the first three months of 2022, according to the Chinese customs administration (General Administration of Customs China, GACC), China imported 4.056m m³ (Jan.-March 2021: 4.125m m³) softwood lumber and thus 2% less than in the previous year. In this context, a 5% increase was recorded for the most important country...

At the end of 2022 and the beginning of the current year, sawmill equipper Simon Möhringer Anlagenbau GmbH (Wiesentheid) was commissioned by three northern Italian softwood sawmills to supply equipment within the scope of modernisation and expansion investments. In all three cases, commissioning is to take place in the...