The elevated 18,640-square-foot center is the first mass timber project for its contractor, Bancroft Construction.

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%.

Canadian building permits, Norway's roundwood harvest, Japan's corporate goods prices and Slovenia's roundwood purchases are also scheduled.

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

The German fiberboard maker expects the Pagiriai plant's loss to shrink to about Euro 3 million in 2027 once production stops.

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.