The review will explore growth options in engineered wood products while addressing profitability challenges at Metsä Wood UK.
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Net sales rose 5.6%, while the company kept its full-year forecast and expects full-year operating profit to fall 60.2%.
Rolpin's debts exceeded its assets by ¥5.18 billion, and Japan's Nankai Plywood set aside the same amount in case its loans are not repaid.
Its Mackenzie sawmill made no lumber in the third quarter, and C$10.2 million of the federal loan remains undrawn.
GreenFirst expects to book C$25.7 million in additional U.S. duties for 2024 shipments in the fourth quarter.
Sales of Russia's largest maker of pulp and containerboard fell 10%, export sales dropped 14% and operating profit shrank 68%.
The German fiberboard maker expects the Pagiriai plant's loss to shrink to about Euro 3 million in 2027 once production stops.
The treated wood pole and railway tie maker expects its 2026 EBITDA margin to stay below its 17.5% to 18.5% target range.
Revenues rose on higher prices in certain construction materials categories, while lower SYP prices and higher freight and fuel costs cut gross margin.
The forecast includes about ¥21 billion of losses at U.S. unit Nippon Dynawave Packaging and ¥20 billion from the Kumamoto earthquake.
The Japanese paperboard maker kept its forecast for a 24% rise in full-year operating profit.
The industrial packaging maker sees no clear sign of a demand recovery and set fiscal 2027 adjusted EBITDA guidance at $645 million at the low end.
The paper group now expects ¥45 billion for the year to March 2027 instead of ¥60 billion.
The South African pulp and paper maker expects next quarter adjusted EBITDA below the fourth quarter as maintenance shuts and high oil prices weigh.
The Italian woodworking machinery maker's nine-month sales dropped 6.6% to Euro 450.7 million and its order backlog shrank 9.2%, though the wood segment held up better than glass and stone.
Sylvamo would keep a right to 20% of the business's future distributions, while third-quarter adjusted EBITDA fell 19% to $128 million.
The company expects lumber prices to improve in the fourth quarter.
Peace River grants of $13.0 million helped narrow the loss, and the company expects softwood pulp prices to rise modestly in the fourth quarter.
A deferred-tax charge tied to the sale of the corrugated packaging business turned the quarter to a $7 million net loss, while two asset sales worth $785.5 million await closing.
Adjusted EBITDA fell to $985 million from $1,013 million, while total assets rose, largely from the Sucuriú project in Brazil.