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  • Sawmilling
  • April 30, 2007 10:02

Guatemalan teak exports in first quarter 2007

Exports of teak products reach $64,678 in the first quarter of 2007. Most of the exports were logs to the Indian market ...... [more...]

  • Sawmilling
  • April 27, 2007 16:43

Brazil: Wood products are major export earners in Mato Grosso

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...]

  • Wood Construction
  • April 26, 2007 11:33

UK: Timber frame housing grew faster than other methods in 2006

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...]

  • Interior
  • April 25, 2007 10:50

U.S.: Existing-home sales fell 8.4 percent in March

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...]

Market Prices
  • Market Prices
  • April 24, 2007 17:50

Papua New Guinea: Industry moves towards legality verification

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...]

  • Forestry
  • April 24, 2007 17:43

PEFC expands global reach to China

PEFC has opened its new PEFC China Office in Beijing. The new office will provide market support and information ...... [more...]

  • Forestry
  • April 24, 2007 16:40

Greenpeace: UK retailers contributing to extinction of merbau

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...]

  • Sawmilling
  • April 24, 2007 12:25

UPM expands birch plywood production at Otepää in Estonia

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...]

Sawmilling
  • Sawmilling
  • April 23, 2007 17:31

US hardwood lumber exports to SE Asia booming

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...]

  • Sawmilling
  • April 23, 2007 17:31

Japanese imports of plywood slow down in early 2007

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...]

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