Export orders and construction also weakened and services stalled, while input and factory-gate prices rose more slowly.
Wood Industry News from China
This page covers 3,815 news items about China. Latest topics: China's factory activity slips into contraction in October; Japan's wood pellet imports grow 9.4% in third quarter; China's exchange pulp stocks edge down in week to October 30.
Vietnam remained the largest supplier as its share fell 4.9 pp; China’s shipments rose 13-fold and Canada’s fell 17.7%.
The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.
Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.5% over the same period.
Smurfit Westrock and Pratt Industries allege dumping margins of up to 297% on Chinese boxes; Turkey also faces a subsidy investigation.
Japan housing starts, China industrial data, Sweden producer prices and forest products, building products and homebuilding results are also scheduled.
Corrugated paper edges up 0.4% on the previous ten days, natural rubber rises 6.2%
EBITDA rose 25% sequentially as containerboard conditions strengthened and industrial raw-material costs fell; packaging-paper deliveries rose year on year but fell from the second quarter.
The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.
Variable costs fell by SEK 51 million, mainly as pulpwood prices declined, while CTMP production increased; full-year investments are expected to total about SEK 60 million.
The 530 million yuan line can make 20 million square meters of board a year from flue gas gypsum and recycled paper fiber; Taishan Gypsum plans nine more lines.
Thailand remained the largest supplier as its share fell 1.2 pp; Vietnam grew 37.6% and United States fell 24.5%.
Two parallel fiberlines to produce fluff, dissolving and bleached pulp grades ahead of startup in 2028.
Vietnam remained China's largest destination as its share fell 5.4 pp; Jordan's shipments rose more than threefold and Vietnam's fell 29.3%.
Vietnam remained the largest buyer as its share rose 0.3 pp; the U.S. share rose 1.6 pp.
Brazil remained the top supplier as its share fell 4.1 pp; Thailand grew 25.9% and Brazil fell 14.1%
Vietnam remained the largest supplier as its share rose 2.7 pp; South Africa shipments grew 73.2% and Australia's fell 4.2%.
New Zealand stayed the largest supplier as its share rose 1.4 pp; Japan had the largest increase, with shipments up 18.1%
Russia remained the largest supplier as its share rose 0.5 pp; Chile's shipments rose 1.5 times and Finland's fell 26.3%
New-home prices fell 2.7% from a year earlier.
The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.
Vietnam remained South Korea’s largest supplier as its share fell 7.6 pp; China’s shipments rose 25% and Vietnam’s fell 25%
Building materials prices fell 3.8% year over year in August.
China had the largest increase at 9.1%, while Indonesia recorded the steepest decline at 33%
United States remained the largest buyer as its share fell 9.1 pp; Thailand's share rose 4.9 pp.
Japanese corporate goods prices, Slovenian roundwood purchases, Swedish felling notifications, Chinese producer prices and U.S. import prices are scheduled.
Corrugated paper edges up 0.2% on the previous ten days, natural rubber rises 1.3%
The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.
Commerce must exclude Jiangyang Wood and Dehua TB from the hardwood plywood antidumping order and cannot reopen the record to calculate new rates.
South Korea remained the largest buyer as its share rose 1 pp; Peru's purchases rose 1.5-fold and U.S. shipments fell 62%.
China stayed the largest destination as its share fell 4.2 pp; Turkey's purchases rose more than twofold and Germany's fell 9.9%.
China took 62% of Chile's wood pulp exports, United Arab Emirates shipments rose more than threefold and Japan's fell 13%.
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.
Construction activity reached 50.3 as factory-gate and input price subindexes rose.
The Chinese list covers hardwood and softwood lumber, logs, OSB, fiberboard, plywood and flooring, while tariff reductions still require domestic procedures.
Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.7% over the same period.
China manufacturing PMI arrives Wednesday as U.S. construction spending is due Thursday.
U.S. hardwood log exports to China reached 380.6 thousand m3 worth $285 million in January-August 2026, exceeding full-year 2025 shipments.
The new-construction starts lagged a year earlier by 30.5%.
Regional constraints, limited plantation expansion and infrastructure barriers will restrict how much additional softwood roundwood reaches markets.
Wood-processing prices edged down 0.1% month over month in August.
Thailand gained 12 percentage points of South Korea's hardwood chips imports; South Korea imported 307 thousand tonnes.
Latvia lost 9 percentage points of Sweden's softwood log imports; Sweden imported 1.4 million m3.
Sweden imported 1.4 million m3 in Q2 as Latvia lost 9 percentage points of Sweden's imports.
New orders and output moved above 50 as construction activity slipped.
Revenue and costs fell 14.6% and 14.3%, respectively, in January-July 2026.
The annual decline narrowed from 1.9% in June to 1.7% in July.
Price for particleboard exported from China increased 10%.
The USITC made affirmative injury determinations on hardwood and decorative plywood from China, Indonesia and Vietnam, clearing the way for antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
The companies remain in the China-wide entity, with the rate applying to reviewed entries and future cash deposits.
Gains in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Pakistan, South Korea and Hong Kong offset only about 4% of the U.S. volume decline.
Lower wood and fixed costs partly offset weaker pulp and paperboard prices, while maintenance shutdowns will reduce third-quarter earnings.
Manufacturing, services and construction activity indexes all declined from June.
Aggregate profit among above-designated-size enterprises in the category fell to 5.17 billion yuan, while profit across all covered industrial enterprises rose 18.7%.
The U.S. Department of Commerce retained the 187.27% dumping margin, while permanent antidumping and countervailing duty orders will depend on a final U.S. injury ruling.
The machine will include forming-section dewatering, compact dryer geometry and two winders plus automation and lifecycle support, with start-up scheduled for fall 2027.
Guangdong Guanhao High-Tech faces a proposed 28.8% rate, while all other Chinese companies face 70.5%.
Latin America remains a low‑cost source at about 95 million m3 annually while Oceania’s supply may fall by roughly three million m3 by 2035.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will keep collecting cash deposits on covered Chinese wood mouldings and millwork imports.