Wood Industry News from Austria

The mass timber group will move production to three other Austrian sites by year-end, and most of the plant's 40 workers will stay with the company.

Canada remained the largest supplier as its share rose 4.1 pp; Romania's shipments rose 9.7% and Germany's fell 48.6%.

Finland remained the largest supplier as its share rose 6.8 pp; Austria's shipments rose 77-fold and Sweden's fell 43.4%.

Larch remains in short supply, while the construction sector is in its eighth year of recession.

The acquisition aims to improve local availability of edging products from plants in Turkey and Germany.

Beech pulpwood led the gains, up 6.3% from July, followed by spruce and fir pulpwood and groundwood (mixed price), up 1.8%.

EU producer prices and Canada sawmill production are due Monday.

Canada became the largest supplier with a 25.0% share by value; the top five countries accounted for 74.5% of import value.

Sinowolf operates two manufacturing sites with 1 billion metres annual edge banding capacity.

Spruce and fir pulpwood and groundwood (mixed price) led the gains, up 1.5% from June, followed by spruce and fir pulpwood, up 1.3%.

The new facility at Kočevska Reka will process beech timber in batches ranging from six to 15 metres.

Weak construction demand, higher freight costs and regulatory requirements are putting pressure on sawmills and timber traders.

Acquisition includes transport fleet; Lenocart collects 10,000 tonnes of recycled wood annually.

The company attributed the insolvency to delays at a new production facility and plans to seek an investor while reducing operations to one shift.

230,000-tonne recycled fibre mill to join MM's industrial platform with all employees transferred.

25 t/h line ordered for Vadodara facility with C-Feeder and S 1056 refiner.

Staufer will oversee sales, order processing, production and after-sales, with a focus on international markets and customer service.

Sawmill processes over 1 million m3 of roundwood annually with Euro 150 million revenue.

Second washing unit and refiner scheduled for May 2028 startup to support capacity expansion.

400 m3/h line scheduled for Q4 2027 startup with HHQ-Chipper and TurnKnife system.

System features Europe's largest FibreFlow drum pulper and targets 1,650 t/d capacity for recycled packaging papers.

700 t/d corrugating medium line scheduled for first-half 2027 startup.

The project will develop and pilot tools for recycled material uptake, reuse and take-back models, integration of agricultural residues and improved traceability across eight European countries.

Partnership offers pilot-scale development access at Andritz's Graz facility with UPM Euca as standard pulp.

48,000 m2 facility features fully automated panel storage and plus-energy building design.

They propose indicative land‑use targets based on member states' own assessments and projections and say voluntary carbon removal rules must remain voluntary.

The primary woodworking machinery sector has been hit harder by the downturn than the secondary segment that supplies machinery for further processing.

The project will replace the site's last third-party control system with a web-based distributed control system, include a DNAe historian and HIMA-based safety systems, and the customer will take over delivery in the first quarter of 2027.

The U.S. posts the steepest decline among the largest softwood lumber import markets, followed by Germany and China, while supplier volumes fall most for Canada, Russia, and Austria.

Stationary unit targets 2027 startup to lower energy use and enable kiln capacity increase.