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Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update – a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC

03 April 2011
Japanese importation of logs, lumber and plywood in 2011 is likely to be the highest it has been since 2008 because of post-earthquake and tsunami re-building, reports the WRQ. Japan is in urgent need of pre-fabricated houses and manufactured wood products in the aftermath of the eart
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Major forestry conference

30 March 2011
ANZIF 2011 (the joint conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) and New Zealand Institute of Forestry) is being held at Sky City, Auckland, from 2-5 May. The theme for the event is 'Pacific Forestry'.
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Japanese importation of logs, lumber and plywood in 2011 is likely to be the highest it has been since 2008

30 March 2011
Japan is in urgent need of pre-fabricated houses and manufactured wood products in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in early March. Longer term, it can be expected that imports of commodity products such as plywood, lumber and logs will increase to this
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Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update – a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC

23 February 2011
Wood costs for the global pulp industry have increased 17 percent the past two years; only the US South has bucked the trend, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly Global market pulp production increased by seven percent in 2010, which increased demand for wood raw-material.
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Approval for genetically modified pine trees test site

07 February 2011
APPROVAL, WITH controls, has been given to Scion to field test genetically modified radiata pine (Pinus radiata) in outdoor containment.
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Fire at the Norske Skog Saugbrugs mill in Norway halts production

07 February 2011
ON THE morning of 2 February, fire caused damage to part of the thermo-mechanical pulp plant which supplies the paper machines with fibre at Norske Skog Saugbrugs mill. Although the fire was quickly brought under control, it caused significant damage to the electrical cabling. No empl
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UK Forestry Commission forecasts high demand for wood

12 January 2011
The UK Forestry Commission is predicting that the increased use of wood-fuelled boilers could boost the industry.
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Vatican receives PEFC certified Christmas tree

13 December 2010
FOR THE second year in a row, the Christmas tree that will light St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City comes from a PEFC-certified, sustainably managed forest. This year’s tree, a 34 metre spruce, originates from forests in Alto-Adige in South Tyrol, an autonomous region in Northern Ita
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Forest Products Market Update – a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC

06 December 2010
European sawmills’ profitability is being squeezed by high log costs and declining lumber prices, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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China’s hunger for wood raw-material pushes timber prices up

20 October 2010
CONTINUED increases in demand for wood raw-material from sawmills, plywood plants and pulp mills in China has pushed domestic log prices upward and many Chinese companies are increasingly exploring the opportunities of importing more logs and wood chips to supplement the domestic fibe
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