The plan sets four pillars — secure competitive wood fibre, invest in modernization and innovation, expand domestic and international markets, and support workers and communities, and will feed into a formal Forest Sector Strategy by the end of 2026.
Government weighs rent freeze through 2028 and bankruptcy moratorium for forest-sector firms.
New press and automated guided vehicles to replace two existing lines at Oostrozebeke site.
Funding will support low-carbon wood technologies, mass timber housing, Indigenous participation and export diversification while ministers review Task Force recommendations
The firm will design wooden structures, while Hill International will consolidate project management.
Timber price declines may ease costs only with a lag and further closures are likely if the market doesn't improve.
Fluff pulp continues normal operations as two remaining lines become core to the unit's long-term strategy.
The province will modernize the Forest Resources Inventory Information Management System and store more than 3,700 terabytes of lidar data on a secure cloud platform.
Association cites a significant 20-year decline in wood use in construction and links faster wood building to investment, exports and jobs.
Changes include closing the Sundsvall manufacturing site, adjusting operations in Gothenburg and Jelenia Góra, and temporary layoffs in Finland from June through December.
The closures will leave Vida operating 13 sawmills across central and southern Sweden.
98% of term loan lenders and 96% of unsecured noteholders support restructuring with new first-out loans.
Two biggest single-project awards fund curved glulam output and wood-fibre foam capacity.
Funding will permanently conserve privately owned working forests, and about 90% of sites provide full or partial public recreation access.
The analysis compares three wood-based synthetic methanol pathways and finds gasification uses less electricity and costs less, while EU RFNBO definitions credit combustion pathways more fully than gasification.
Company plans two structured paper machines with first starting operations in late 2028.
The 2025-founded foundation will assess sites, with first decisions expected around the turn of the year.
New entity would control 1.2 million hectares of land and emerge as Europe's largest listed pure play forest company.
Lumber pricing rises on tighter supply, but weak demand, duties, and disruptions cut shipments and keep both lumber and pulp operations under pressure.
Volatile mortgage rates, weather disruptions, and cautious housing demand weigh on results and margins, with the largest pricing and gross-margin pressure in engineered wood products.