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Price for lumber imported to the UK decreased 12.6%.

Price for wood chips imported to the UK lost 11%.

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.

A color camera will match the repair compound to the color of each plywood sheet.

GreenFirst expects to book C$25.7 million in additional U.S. duties for 2024 shipments in the fourth quarter.

Exports fell 3% in January–August, and the sawmill association sees no quick turn for the better.

Softwood sawlog stocks fell 6% and pulpwood 5% from the end of June, while pulp chip stocks dropped by almost a quarter.

Pulp logs rose 6% from the second quarter, while L1 and L2 unpruned sawlogs fell 1%.

Price for lumber imported to Egypt contracted 13.2%.

Compared with the previous month, production was up 17.6%.

Compared with the previous month, production was down 5.6%.

MM Packaging will become a standalone company, with MM Group keeping a 30% stake.

The final rates match the preliminary results, while exporters without a separate rate stay at the China-wide level.

Two producers that withdrew from verification were moved to the China-wide rate of 220.87%.

Hardwood pulpwood led the gains, up 3.6% from September, followed by hardwood sawlogs, up 3.1%.

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.

Compared with the previous month, production was down 3.4%.

Compared with the previous month, production was down 2%.

Inventories at the same wholesalers edge up 0.7% on the month and up 4.1% from a year earlier.

In August 2026, production of wood pulp in Germany gained 3.8% compared to August 2025 to 235.2 thousand metric tons.

Sales of Russia's largest maker of pulp and containerboard fell 10%, export sales dropped 14% and operating profit shrank 68%.

Wood-processing prices have been below year-earlier levels for 48 straight months, while total industrial prices rose 5.7%.

The treated wood pole and railway tie maker expects its 2026 EBITDA margin to stay below its 17.5% to 18.5% target range.

Exports of wood furniture from Brazil decreased 5.4%.

Revenues rose on higher prices in certain construction materials categories, while lower SYP prices and higher freight and fuel costs cut gross margin.

The forecast includes about ¥21 billion of losses at U.S. unit Nippon Dynawave Packaging and ¥20 billion from the Kumamoto earthquake.

The Japanese paperboard maker kept its forecast for a 24% rise in full-year operating profit.

The paper group now expects ¥45 billion for the year to March 2027 instead of ¥60 billion.

The group's sales company cites higher labor, logistics and maintenance costs and fuel prices kept high by the Middle East conflict.

Three paper machines and the pulp line damaged in the July earthquake will not restart, and output moves to other mills.

Foreign orders rose 1.7% after a 12.3% jump in the second quarter, while domestic orders fell 0.7%.

Price for bleached hardwood kraft pulp exported from Brazilian dipped 1.7%.

Price for plywood exported from Brazilian slid 2.5%.

Price for lumber exported from Brazilian rose marginally 0.1%.

The Italian woodworking machinery maker's nine-month sales dropped 6.6% to Euro 450.7 million and its order backlog shrank 9.2%, though the wood segment held up better than glass and stone.

Hrvatske šume, which manages about three quarters of the country's forests, cites rising labor and production costs and prices in neighboring countries.

Price for plywood exported from Chilean slid 1.3%.

The duties of 14.4% to 15.8%, in force since 2021 and extended to shipments via Turkey and Kazakhstan in 2024, stay in place while the review runs for up to 15 months.

The talks will cover about 120 employees, and the possible layoffs could last more than 90 days in several periods next year.

Sylvamo would keep a right to 20% of the business's future distributions, while third-quarter adjusted EBITDA fell 19% to $128 million.

Wood product makers cut 400 jobs in October to 393,900, while construction payrolls were little changed at 8.367 million.

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

Price for bleached hardwood kraft pulp exported from Chilean lost 5.1%.

Price for bleached softwood kraft pulp exported from Chilean decreased 14.2%.

Price for lumber exported from Chilean lost 5.4%.

Peace River grants of $13.0 million helped narrow the loss, and the company expects softwood pulp prices to rise modestly in the fourth quarter.

A deferred-tax charge tied to the sale of the corrugated packaging business turned the quarter to a $7 million net loss, while two asset sales worth $785.5 million await closing.

The family-owned group needs several profitable years before it can fund the Kinnared project, its sawmill chief says, and has set no new date.

Production grew 10% from a year earlier and from the second quarter, with 91% of the pellets made from sawmill residues.

The final rate is nearly three times the preliminary level for two of the producers and below it for the third.

A pilot at the company's new sawline showed that up to 4% of the volume from final fellings can move from pulpwood to sawn products.

Canada was the largest supplier, and its share rose 17.6 pp; Canadian shipments jumped 96.5% while Germany's fell 58.2%.

The Vienna-based company says a contractually agreed investor payment failed to arrive, while its parent Gropyus AG stays out of the proceedings and construction continues.

Petitioners withdrew requests for 14 companies, and Commerce found no reviewable entries for 20 others.

Wood-panel and other wood product prices gained 0.2% on the month, with their annual rise at 4.7%.

Canada's share rose 3.7 pp as Spain's shipments jumped 58.2%.

Annual growth outpaced that of Slovak industrial producer prices by 8.1 percentage points.

Canada became the largest supplier as its share rose 7.4 pp; Taiwan's share fell 11.8 pp.

Standing-sale spruce log prices were unchanged from August, while pulpwood prices fell 2.1% to 3.3%.

Price for SYP lumber exported from the U.S. contracted 5.7%.

The United Kingdom stayed the largest buyer as its share rose 11 pp, France's purchases grew more than twofold and Japan's fell 42%

The Australian Forest Products Association estimates that up to 100,000 cubic meters of imported timber products a year may contain Russian fiber, enough for 15,000 homes, and wants testing and country-of-origin labeling.

The forest machine maker and its employee representatives agreed on the measure for a weaker market next year, a year after a similar deal for 2026.

China remained the largest destination as its share gained 1.1 pp, while India grew most at 14.9% and Indonesia's shipments shrank most at 18.8%.

Developers launched 61,106 apartments.

The forest owners' cooperative is lifting pulpwood prices by a total of 50 kroner per cubic meter this autumn and spruce sawlog prices by 30 kroner from Nov. 1, citing low mill inventories and strong demand for spruce.

The United States remained the largest buyer as its share rose 0.7 pp, while Mexico's shipments climbed 60.3% and Japan's fell 15.4%.

Price for logs exported from Canadian expanded 19.4%.

Price for newsprint exported from Canadian held steady.

Exports of lumber from Canada decreased slightly 0.8%.

The petition by Alta Forest Products, Sierra Pacific Industries and Mendocino Forest Products alleges dumping margins of up to 296%.

Mexico led destinations as its share rose 1.2 pp, while Germany's shipments rose 15.1% and China's fell 47.9%.

The United States remained the largest destination as its share dipped 0.1 pp, while New Zealand's purchases grew more than fourfold and those to the U.S. fell 9.5%.

The United Kingdom stayed the largest buyer as its share slipped 4.2 pp; Italy's purchases grew 730-fold while Denmark's fell 33.8%.

Housing completions in Germany are expected to drop below 200,000 in 2026, the lowest since 2011, and the sawmill association warns against planned cuts to new-build subsidies.

Canada's share of U.S. softwood lumber imports rose 1.2 pp, while Germany's shipments dropped 18.1%, the steepest fall among large suppliers.

The board set him the tasks of reaching a sustained positive operating cash flow, raising capacity utilization and cutting debt.

Planing, painting and impregnation will continue at the site with lumber from another Holmen mill.

Brazil remained the largest supplier as its share rose 3.7 pp; Malaysia's shipments surged 94.5% and Vietnam's tumbled 78.3%.

Compared with the previous month, production was up 4%.

Exports of lumber from the U.S. to Mexico gained 1.1%.

Exports of logs from the U.S. increased slightly 0.5%.

The door and window maker expects 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $120 million to $150 million as cost cuts offset weaker volumes, and will keep its European business after a strategic review.

The decking maker expects fourth-quarter net sales of $175 million to $185 million and lower startup costs at its Arkansas plant as output rises.

Prices received by New Zealand producers for wood and timber were 2.1% higher than a year earlier.

Adjusted operating profit fell to SEK 47 million from SEK 69 million as the overhaul of the Finnish business weighed on sales.

Spruce and fir pulpwood led the gains, up 0.4% from August, followed by spruce and fir pulpwood and groundwood (mixed price), up 0.4%.

Corrugated paper falls 2.3% on the previous ten days, natural rubber falls 2.6%

Prices charged for forestry and logging services were 7.2% higher than a year earlier.

The cuts take effect on January 2 at the mill West Fraser said last week it would idle indefinitely because of weak demand for wood products.

A U.S. tariff on Canadian paperboard idled the Temiscaming site in October, and the company pushed the conclusion of its strategic review to the first quarter of 2027.

Forty-three forestry associations say higher diesel prices add more than $920 million a year to the cost of hauling U.S. timber. A second coalition of 46 groups led by forest landowners made the same request a day later.

Spruce sawlogs posted the only gain, up 6.1% from the second quarter.

Metsä Group had earlier suspended wood purchases from the data center sites over doubts about the timber's origin, and Finland's supervisory agency halted preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani in October.

Net orders dropped in the first nine months, and the company now expects 4,600 to 4,800 home closings in 2026.

The German maker of decor papers and edgebands for the panel and furniture industries lifted its adjusted EBITDA margin to 12.2% from 11.4% and confirmed its 2026 forecast of Euro 790 million to Euro 820 million in sales.

Year to date, wood products shipments were up 0.4% and paper products shipments up 2.0%, against a 7.5% gain for all manufacturing.