Paper / Forest Products News in Seattle, Washington,United States of America

• Wood chip exports from Latin America reached a record high in 2011, with pulp mills in Japan and...

  Global trade of wood chips has gone up substantially the past two years. Export from Chile, Uruguay and Brail was up 43 percent in 2011 compared to 2009; a...

• Wood fiber costs for pulp manufacturers declined in the 4Q/11 as pulp prices fell – with Global...

  Global demand for pulp has declined and pulp prices fell during the second half of 2011. As a consequence, prices for wood fiber, the highest cost component...

• China is now the world’s largest importer of softwood lumber and logs despite a slowdown in...

  Reduced activities in the housing construction sector in China decreased importation of softwood logs and lumber in late 2011. China is still the largest...

• New Zealand’s log exports to China account for one-third of the country’s timber harvest in 2011

  Log exportation from New Zealand at a record pace, almost 1/3 of the timber harvest is being processed at sawmills in China. Domestic sawlog prices reach...

• Weaker lumber markets are causing global sawlog prices to fall for first time since early 2009

  Slowing lumber markets throughout the world have resulted in declining sawlog prices in many of the major lumber-producing regions in Europe and North...

• Lumber demand is increasing worldwide and has resulted in higher lumber prices in the 1Q/11 in...

  Last year global demand for softwood lumber increased 18 percent after having hit a 50-year low in 2009. The rise in demand has pushed lumber prices in North...

• Wood fiber costs for Eastern Canada pulp mills in Q4 lowest they have been for 10 years, and...

  Over the past 20 years, pulp mills in Eastern Canada have consistently had higher wood fiber costs than the mills in the Western provinces with the exception...

• FOEX Indexes and Wood Resources International to partner in the launching of Global Wood Chip...

  Wood chip indices are well suited for forest and energy companies who can use price indices for benchmarking and for the financial community, which can use...

• Wood costs for sawmills and pulp mills in Sweden on the rise in 2010, reports the Wood Resource...

  Continued healthy markets for lumber, pulp and paper has kept demand for logs at high levels in Sweden. As a result, log and wood chip prices have increased...