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The forestry sector says its growth is being unfairly squeezed by competition from subsidised overseas rivals. Log prices may be good, but foresters say they will struggle to reach bullish export growth targets over the next five years because of subsidies paid to overseas rivals, which may be challenged through the World Trade Organization (WTO).[…]

Increasing lumber exports leads to new technology investment – Signs are good right now for the country’s wood processing industry. Shipments from New Zealand into the US market have in fact gone up 37% over just the past four years and during the first five months of 2017. The US has now overtaken Australia as[…]

NZ export log prices weaken as higher kiwi dollar bites – New Zealand export log prices generally declined over the past month as a gain in the New Zealand dollar made the country’s products less competitive. Most grades of New Zealand unpruned logs weakened by between $1-to-$3 a tonne, with A-grade logs falling to $124[…]

Over 50% of the timber harvest in New Zealand is being exported in log form. However, some sawmills in the country have taken advantage of the growing demand for softwood lumber in the US the past few years, with the total export value having gone 37% from 2012 to 2016, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.[…]

Forestry in growth mode and struggling to find workers – Forestry has grown rapidly in recent years to become the main driver of the district’s economy, worth an estimated $262 million a year. A 2013 study found more than one in four households in our region have a person whose job is dependent on forestry.[…]

SFPA’s 34th Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Exposition – Expo 2017 – was a spectacular showcase for the wood products industry last week in Atlanta.  For three days, 186 exhibitors displayed the latest equipment, technology and services available. Featuring a floor plan that was larger than the 2015 event with nearly 2,000 exhibitors and visitors[…]

The world’s largest forestry fair was bigger than ever this year both in terms of area and number of exhibitors. Many visitors were drawn to Elmia Wood to see new forestry products and services and to learn about new high-tech solutions and expertise in the forest south of Jönköping, Sweden. “This has been a terrific[…]

A simple conveyor belt joins Hyne Timber’s Tuan Mill and neighbouring Altus Renewables. Such is the way for efficient transformation on one plant’s sustainable by-product into another plant’s core business being biofuel. It is certainly not unusual for large scale plantation softwood processing plants to exist as part of a supply chain hub and while[…]

Sawmills in Quebec and Ontario are running at record high levels, resulting in difficulty finding outlets for generated residuals, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review Record high production at sawmills in Ontario and Quebec in 2016 has generated large volumes of residues in the two provinces, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review.[…]

While BC forestry companies face a long-term decline in the annual allowable cut in the Interior, thanks to the mountain pine beetle infestation, BC companies on the coast have been exporting raw logs, mostly to China, in record volumes in recent years.   According to a recent Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report, one[…]