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  • Market Prices
  • January 31, 2010 18:46

China: GDP Estimates

According to forecasts released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China’s economy is expected to be healthy in 2010 with a growth in of GDP 9 percent. Investments in fixed assets in 2009 are estimated at Yuan 22.74 trillion representing a growth of around 32 percent, the highest in last sixteen years...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 31, 2010 08:45

China: Russian Sawnwood

Statistics from Shuifenhe Customs show that a total of over 0.3 million cubic metres of sawnwood were imported in first ten months of 2009, valued at US$62.2 million, up 201 percent and 162 percent respectively over the same period of last year...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 30, 2010 08:36

Japan: Plywood market trends

The plywood market in Japan has seen tough times in 2009 and to end the year things got worse as the bottom fell out of the market for softwood plywood...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 29, 2010 13:27

Guyana: Price movements

Prices for Greenheart logs remain were relatively stable. Purpleheart standard sawmill quality prices climbed while Mora log prices stayed firm...... [more...]

  • Sawmilling
  • January 29, 2010 11:58

Solid Wood Furniture in Great Demand

In 2009 manufacturers of solid wood furniture outpaced the rest of the furniture industry in Germany.... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 29, 2010 09:30

Buyers List Tender Sale Dresden January 2010

Here IHB/Fordaq-subscribers can see a detailed analysis of the precious logs sold by tender at Dresden/Saxony (1/19/2010) sorted by wood species and buyers.

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  • Market Prices
  • January 29, 2010 08:20

Peru: 2009 exports down 34%

According to data from the Export Association of Peru (ADEX), wood sector exports from January – November 2009 were of US$135.09 million FOB, down 33.6% on the same period in 2008...... [more...]

  • Wood Construction
  • January 28, 2010 23:46

Construction output down by 1.1% in the euro area in November 2009

In the construction sector, seasonally adjusted production decreased by 1.1% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.6% in the EU27 in November 2009, compared with the previous month. In October, production fell by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 28, 2010 12:13

Brazil: Exports Drop in Alta Floresta

Contrary to exports in Sinop, Sorriso, Lucas do Rio Verde and Nova Mutum, wood products export from the municipality of Alta Floresta, a major regional timber exporter, dropped between January and November 2009, compared to the same period of 2008...... [more...]

  • Market Prices
  • January 27, 2010 22:20

Ghana: Overland Export Trade

Ghana improved its overland trade performance to the ECOWAS market in the three quarters to September 2009...... [more...]

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