Former Huber Engineered Woods president brings 30 years of industry experience as board expands to 11 directors.
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Investment in wood processing fell 19% and in pulp and paper 31.9%, while manufacturing as a whole was nearly flat.
Sawlog deliveries rose 4% while sawmill margins stayed under pressure; Sveaskog expects lower log prices to gradually improve sawmills’ conditions, with some delay.
Lower housing starts reduced organic sales and gross profit; the company expects $60 million to $70 million in productivity savings in 2026.
The curtailments will cut annual capacity by 500 million square feet of OSB and 225 million board feet of southern yellow pine lumber.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 5.2%.
The U.S. maker of pallets, decking and building components kept its 2026 outlook unchanged.
Most of the funding is a repayable contribution under Canada's Regional Tariff Response Initiative.
Finland remained the largest supplier as its share rose 6.8 pp; Austria's shipments rose 77-fold and Sweden's fell 43.4%.
Price for lumber imported to Tunisia grew 5.4%.
Swedish lumber producer prices rose 0.6% from August but were 1.5% lower than a year earlier.
Annual growth trailed that of Italian industrial producer prices by 7.6 percentage points.
Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.5% over the same period.
Annual growth outpaced that of Brazil overall industrial producer prices by 0.7 percentage points.
The publicly owned mill expects the shutdown to last about two months, until frozen ground lets crews reach hemlock stands.
Duties on Canadian softwood lumber would go into loan funds for homes built with U.S. wood, and tariffs on mill machinery not made in the U.S. would be removed.
About 70% of the country's wood is estimated to come from illegal logging, and in top timber state Chihuahua the illegal trade rivals the legal market.
Monday's $10 drop was the steepest session of the week.
Price for lumber imported to India increased 6.3%.
Compared with September 2025, production was down 4.9%.