----B & Q supplier training was successfully held in Shanghai
B&Q (China) supplier training of sustainable management of timber products was successfully held in Shanghai on January 12, 2011....
Meranti logs breach pre-crisis price level
Tropical log supply is still affected by bad weather conditions and prices have been inching up in the last few months. Local plywood mills in Sarawak repor...
Demand for no-formaldehyde-added wood is expected to rise after President Obama signed a law this month that limits the amount of formaldehyde in wood, reports USA Today. It’s also projected to ...
Social justice, environment and international development organisations have echoed an Indonesian call on the Australia Government to fulfil its 2007 election promise to ban imports of illegal timber....
Members of the U.S. Green Building Council are getting ready to adopt new standards for what’s considered “sustainable wood.” In the past, most Oregon timber products haven’t q...
The construction materials price index was unchanged in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after rising for eight consecutive months. That rise was 5.2% which is nearly an 8% annual pa...
President Obama signed a new law this month that limits the amount of formaldehyde, a chemical linked to cancer and respiratory problems, thats allowed in wood products.
The law will likely result in...
Cagayan de Oro City (16 July) -- Some 10,090.25 cubic meters (cu.m.) of wood products valued at US$2.291M have been exported by Northern Mindanao during the 1st quarter of 2010.
This volume of wood e...
July 19 (Bloomberg) -- Liberia and the European Union have signed an agreement to stop the export of illegal timber from the African nation into any EU member state, the Liberian government said yeste...
Not too long ago, many mass-market furniture makers werent all that interested in the no-formaldehyde-added wood that Todd Vogelsinger was trying to sell them from Columbia Forest Products.
After all...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jul 15, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Canfor Corporation /quotes/comstock/11t!e:cfp (CA:CFP 8.61, -0.08, -0.92%) announced today that Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited P...
When Oregon State University researcher Dr. Kaichang Li pitched an environmentally friendly adhesive at a wood products industry conference in 2002, most people in the audience had no interest. Advanc...
FREETOWN — The Sierra Leone government announced on Wednesday it had lifted a ban on unprocessed timber exports put in place in January to crack down on illegal logging.
"The ban is lifted...
The most active lumber futures contract at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell the maximum daily allowance on Monday, closing down 4.4 percent at an eight-month low on weak cash markets and a slow ec...
Following the log export ban in Gabon coming into effect on 15th May, log exports have been completely halted. As a result, around 60,000 cu.m of logs remain in the port. Although contracts have been ...
