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The solid-wood industry is the third largest export earner in Mato Grosso with $195 million (243,200 ton) in 2006, according to the International Business Center ...... [more...]
Thanks to the continuing demand for low carbon homes, the market share for timber frame construction has more than doubled since 1999 and now stands at ...... [more...]
Unusually bad winter weather in February curtailed home shopping, slowing sales that closed in March, which may have been dampened further by a decrease ...... [more...]
The PNG Forest Industry Association (PNGFIA) is working with the Swiss firm SGS (Societe Generale du Surveillance), one of the world’s most credible inspection ...... [more...]
A recent Greenpeace report warns that the tropical hardwood species merbau (or kwila) will be extinct within 35 years or less if action is not taken ...... [more...]
UPM will modernize and expand the birch plywood production at its Otepää plywood mill in Estonia. The investment, which is worth almost 10 million euros, will increase the mill's production capacity by ...... [more...]
Total exports of US hardwood products to Southeast Asia moved ahead of the global trend (up 6.9%) in 2006, increasing 13% to $159 million. Lumber exports amounted to $110 million, up 32% from 2005 and accounted for 69% ...... [more...]
Plywood imports rose slightly to 447,791 m3 (¥30.3 billion) in January, up 0.3% (up 51% in value) from a year earlier. However, the expansion of plywood imports has slowed down in early 2007 due to large import volumes ...... [more...]