Exports of logs from Lithuania grew 12%.
Price for logs exported from Germany increased 31%.
Price for lumber exported from Sweden gained 3%.
Price for wood chips imported to South Korea expanded 34%.
Price for wood pellets imported to South Korea expanded 13%.
Price for lumber exported from Russia to Kazakhstan slipped 1.4%.
The plan is to start the work in the Q2 with the sawmills in Gällö, Rundvik, and the planing mill in Stugun. In the Q3, Tunadal's planing mill will also begin its work.
Tor Lundqvist, Deputy President and Senior Vice President of Operations for North America will assume the role of Acting President, Billerud North America until a successor is appointed.
This innovative solution is intended in particular to support carpentry shops in their daily work in the planning and realisation of individual rooms.
Metsä Group funds biodiversity management and restoration projects with a total of Euro 600,000.
Carin Eklund takes over as CFO on July 15, and OrganoClick's current CFO Jessica Sundborg will leave the company 21 of August.
Many factors suggest that the long-fiber market will continue to be structurally undersupplied.
Price for wood chips imported to United Kingdom contracted 12%.
Uruguay accounted for 23% of India's total log imports in April.
Overall, manufacturing sales in Canada rose 1.1%.
Valmet estimates that net sales in 2024 will remain at the previous year's level in comparison with 2023 (Euro 5,532 million) and Comparable EBITA in 2024 will increase in comparison with 2023 (Euro 619 million).