In 2020, in spite of the pandemic, Vietnam's exports of wood and wood products (W&WP) amounted to US$12.371 billion, a year-on-year growth of 16%. Of this, WP export were valued at US$9.535 billion, 22.5% up compared to 2019 and accounted for 77% of total W&WP exports. With this growth rate W&WP steadily remain amongst top 6 export commodity groups in Vietnam...... [mais...]
Pakistan is experiencing a major economical imbalance caused by the Corona virus pandemic. The country was suffering from issues even before due to depreciation of Rupee; now the situation has further deteriorated. Today 1 US-$ equals around 160 Rupees. As Fordaq experts anticipate, in a few... [mais...]
The FOB value of semi-manufactured Peruvian wood product exports in 2020 totalled US$55.4 million representing a year on year decline of 31%... [mais...]
After the worst wood market crisis of the past 30 years, the Bavarian State Forests have seen a consolidation of the wood market and a noticeable increase in the price of softwood...... [mais...]
Despite upheaval in the EU27+UK wood market and wider economy in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the total dollar value of EU27+UK imports of wood (HS44) and wood furniture (HS94) products fell only 4% to US$21.86 billion euro in 2020...... [mais...]
Metsä Group’s sales in the 4Q 2020 totalled Euro 1,357.2 million, whereas sales of the corresponding period in the previous year were Euro 1,290.3 million. The comparable operating result was Euro 94 million...... [mais...]
The Malaysian Timber Industry Board (MTIB) has reported last year’s performance of the timber sector. Exports were RM 22.02 bil (RM 22.50 bil in 2019) while total imports were RM 6.81 bil (RM 5.95 bil in 2019)...... [mais...]
Despite special circumstances in 2020, Association of European Producers of Laminate Flooring (EPLF) has announced that their members were able to grow their business by 2.74% in comparison to 2019, with 459.0 million m² of flooring sold...... [mais...]
According to the EU Winter forecast, the EU economy is expected to contract in the first quarter of 2021 but economic growth should resume in the spring and gather momentum in the summer as vaccination programmes progress and containment measures gradually ease. An improved outlook for the global economy is also set to support the recovery...... [mais...]
2020 was another successful year for pellets. 5% more pellets were produced in Switzerland than in the previous year and almost 20% more pellet heating systems were sold...... [mais...]
