
Price for particleboard exported from Turkish lost 6.1%.

Price for particleboard exported from Turkish lost 6.1%.

The Finnish maker of plywood and LVL mill equipment, whose third-quarter sales fell 34%, lowered the top of its 2026 forecast for the second time this year.

Price for OSB exported from Norwegian stayed flat.

The Chilean wood-based panel maker’s revenue rose 5% to $72.3 million; it also plans to concentrate production in Chile.

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

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

Kastamonu Entegre and Yıldız Entegre received the largest fines.

The Indian plywood and MDF maker’s plants are running at nearly 98% of capacity.

The curtailments will cut annual capacity by 500 million square feet of OSB and 225 million board feet of southern yellow pine lumber.

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.

A final rule signed on Thursday lets mills use a newer small-chamber method for routine quality-control testing and updates six other test standards.

The changes take effect October 30; new 50% duties also cover hardboard, wood moldings, wooden boxes and kraft paper.

Pellet prices jumped 38.5% from a year earlier, while softwood lumber prices slipped 0.8% from August; overall industrial producer prices rose 6.7%.

Prices fell 4.1% from August but remained up 11.5% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 14.5% year over year.

The 530 million yuan line can make 20 million square meters of board a year from flue gas gypsum and recycled paper fiber; Taishan Gypsum plans nine more lines.

Vietnam remained China's largest destination as its share fell 5.4 pp; Jordan's shipments rose more than threefold and Vietnam's fell 29.3%.

Prices were 20.6% higher than a year earlier.

The machinery supplier will manufacture the systems in-house, while Electronic Wood Systems will remain the contact for its direct customers.

The acquisition aims to improve local availability of edging products from plants in Turkey and Germany.