Germany continues lockdown until mid-February Due to continuing high numbers of corona virus cases and mutated virus cases, members of the federal-state conference made the decision on 19 January again to prolong the hard lockdown that has been in effect in Germany since mid-December. Businesses that do not cover daily necessities – including the brick-and-mortar

Wood felling in Finland in Q1-3 fell down by 15 % During the first nine months, the volume of roundwood cut in Finland for use as a material reached around 40.3m m³, which equals a reduction of 15.1 % against a year earlier.  Surveys conducted by the Natural Resources Institute Finland showed that the volume

Increase in US imports from Europe slows down Reached a total of 1.075m m³, the volume of softwood sawn timber shipped to the USA from the European Union (including Great Britain) during the fourth quarter of 2020 was 49% higher than in the same period of 2019. After increase rates of 55% in the first,

US increased its sawmill industry’s share to 61% in North America The sawmilling industry of North America generally produced 35.967m m³ of sawn softwood in the fourth quarter of 2020, exceeding the figure of 2019 by 7 %.  This volume was also a bit down by 1 % against the 3rd quarter of 2020. Softwood lumber

Planed lumber exports from Estonia increased by 6% Exports of rough-sawn and planed softwood lumber from Estonia in the first quarter were just a bit higher of the previous year’s figure of 144,905 m³. The development of boosting exports spotted in the 2nd half of 2020 was therefore reversed again. As Eurostat informed, supplies to

UK: Sawn timber sales are expected to increase by 4% Managing director of TimberTrends Nick Moore is considering the volume of softwood lumber sold in the UK in 2021 to be 4 % higher than in 2020. Moore delivered his forecast at the Softwood Conference, which took place online by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF)

Russia introduces export ban on roundwood Having adopted decree no. 396 on 18 March, Russia has confirmed an export ban on softwood logs and hardwood sawlogs to come into effect from 1 January, 2022 This regulation comes into effect on 19 April, therefore the previously applicable laws – which regulated quotas for exports of pine,

German pellet production grew by around 8%  Created on 20 May 2021 A volume of 802,000t of pellets was produced in Germany in the first quarter. It was also registered that production was 8.2% higher than in the previous year. In accordance with the survey made by the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association (DEPV)

Europe exports of sawnwood to the US increased by 26% Europe’s exports of sawn softwood to the US in July were around 3% higher than the figure of July 2020 at a total of 2.929m m³.  According to the US Department’s of Agriculture data, FAS imports from Canada grew by 1% in comparison with the

Considerable growth in Europe’s imports from Russian In the second quarter, European softwood lumber imports from Russia grew by significantly in comparison with the same period of 2020.   The Russian customs authority reports that deliveries to Estonia grew by 62% to 272,762 m³. Great increases were also registered in sales to Germany (+32% to 230,653