Sweden's share slipped 4.8 percentage points, while Norway's shipments grew 1.5-fold.
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Price for lumber imported to the UK decreased 12.6%.
Plywood prices jumped 30% from a year earlier, while glulam and logs also rose on the month.
Rolpin's debts exceeded its assets by ¥5.18 billion, and Japan's Nankai Plywood set aside the same amount in case its loans are not repaid.
Its Mackenzie sawmill made no lumber in the third quarter, and C$10.2 million of the federal loan remains undrawn.
GreenFirst expects to book C$25.7 million in additional U.S. duties for 2024 shipments in the fourth quarter.
Timber growers are pitching mass timber to data-center developers as a housing slump forces sawmill closures.
Exports fell 3% in January–August, and the sawmill association sees no quick turn for the better.
The group is trimming the unit to lift its profitability, citing slow market growth and rising costs.
Price for lumber imported to Egypt contracted 13.2%.
Sexton Lumber, with capacity of about 65 million board feet a year, has suspended harvesting and log purchasing while damage is assessed.
Two producers that withdrew from verification were moved to the China-wide rate of 220.87%.
The new business would be built on AAM's Bathurst and Mount Gambier mills and buy plantation softwood operations only.
Sawmills welcome the approach but warn that an unsettled definition of boreal natural forest could still curb log supplies.
The hardwood processor plans about 30 jobs in the first phase and 100 within three years at the Vrbovsko site.
Inventories at the same wholesalers edge up 0.7% on the month and up 4.1% from a year earlier.
The treated wood pole and railway tie maker expects its 2026 EBITDA margin to stay below its 17.5% to 18.5% target range.
The contract closed at $500 per thousand board feet, down 2.9% on the week.
Revenues rose on higher prices in certain construction materials categories, while lower SYP prices and higher freight and fuel costs cut gross margin.
Hardwood lumber edged down 0.8%, while lumber imports into the region fell 5% from August.