Japan’s plywood sector has a tumultuous history marked by price fluctuations and trade imbalance. Also, the price-sensitive commodity faces competition from imports, which used to account for over half of the market share.Many of the competition comes from South Sea hardwood and Russian larch logs.

After rising strongly in 2016, EU imports of hardwood plywood have been slowing this year. The decline in imports has been concentrated in mixed hardwood products from China. Imports of tropical hardwood plywood, both directly from tropics and from China, have been rising this year.EU imports of har

Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná states are two prominent furniture centres in Brazil and according to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), furniture production in Rio Grande do Sul state in August expanded just over 10%.In the Paraná state the equivalent growth was almost 5%. Year on

Analysts report that there is little activity in the building sector and that most of the current work is on finishing existing contracts before the builders holidays which starts on the 16 December.On the domestic front the pine market is said to be steady but the usual year end activity has not ma

The world's tallest timber building is to be built in Norway. Mjøstårnet will be more than 80 metres tall and stand 30 metres higher than what is today considered the world’s tallest timber building. “Mjøstårnet sets new standards for timber constructions. The building is the closest we come to a sk

Multiple issues related to wood Construction were debated at the European Economic and Social Committee during the conference Building with Wood that took place on the 21 of November 2017. The conference, co-organized by CEI-Bois (European Confederation of Woodworking Industries), FIEC (European Con

China’s policy on focusing on their domestic market has prompted foreign importers to place more orders with Vietnamese enterprises. The prosperity of the wood processing industry in the last year has been robust. According to VietnamNet Vietnam hopes it can obtain turnover of $8 billion from wooden

The price of wood pellets in Austria has reached an average of 232.9 € per tonne of wood pellets or 4.75 Cent per kWh in November 2017. As compared to the previous year, the price has gone up by +3.4%. As compared to September 2017, the price is +0.8% higher.At the moment, in Austria, wood pellets i

U.S. imports of softwood from Germany have grown tenfold in the first half of the year as punishing duties pushed imports of Canadian softwood down, as the Canadian Press reports.RBC Capital Markets analyst Paul Quinn says Canadian lumber producers have plunked down an estimated $500 million so far

In 2016. Chinese plywood production rose 7% to 177.56 million cubic metres accounting for nearly 60% of total woodbased panel output and was valued at RMB367.5 billion.Of the total, 163.82 million cubic metres were plain plywood, 7.34 million cubic metres were laminated or wood/bamboo composite plyw