
Price for wood chips exported from Vietnamese to Japan grew only 0.8%.

Price for lumber imported to Japan rose 1.6%.

Wooden starts rose 2.3%; January–September starts were up 1.6% from a year earlier.
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The Texas homebuilder lifted orders 3% with incentives of 11% and says owning and developing its own land has largely locked in its lot costs.

Pulp and paper producers swung to a loss, and 56.2% of sawmilling companies were loss-making, up from 43.7% a year earlier.

Housing permits, a guide to future construction, fell 44.3% to 25,938 units; January–September starts were up 1% from a year earlier.

The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.

The timber giant's latest land sale, at about $1,800 an acre, comes as third-quarter profit fell 24% and it braces for a softer fourth quarter in wood products.

Project modernizes Angel Soft bath tissue production with completion expected in Q2 2028.

Former Huber Engineered Woods president brings 30 years of industry experience as board expands to 11 directors.

Price for wooden pallets imported to France lost 12.1%.

Price for wood pellets imported to Germany grew 8.3%.

Compared with the previous month, production was down 2.2%.

Eleven southern states accounted for 70% of the loss to development and cropland between 1990 and 2017, and rates have started to rise again.

Investment in wood processing fell 19% and in pulp and paper 31.9%, while manufacturing as a whole was nearly flat.

Kastamonu Entegre and Yıldız Entegre received the largest fines.
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