Forty-three forestry associations say higher diesel prices add more than $920 million a year to the cost of hauling U.S. timber. A second coalition of 46 groups led by forest landowners made the same request a day later.
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The group tracked logs from eight clear-cut continuity forests to SCA sawmills that supply the makers of its IVAR and HEJNE pine shelving. IKEA says the harvests were legal and FSC-compliant, and SCA calls the report misleading.
Spruce sawlogs posted the only gain, up 6.1% from the second quarter.
Metsä Group had earlier suspended wood purchases from the data center sites over doubts about the timber's origin, and Finland's supervisory agency halted preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani in October.
China remained the largest buyer as its share slipped 2.7 pp, India's shipments surged 94.8%, and Taiwan's dropped 5.5%.
The largest grant, $7.7 million, will expand pallet production from low-grade wood as the state tries to shore up demand for timber from its private forests.
Exports of logs from Norway decreased 13.6%.
Pulp and paper producers swung to a loss, and 56.2% of sawmilling companies were loss-making, up from 43.7% a year earlier.
Kastamonu Entegre and Yıldız Entegre received the largest fines.
Stronger softwood lumber markets lifted prices while New Brunswick softwood volumes fell; Acadian expects sawlog demand and prices to remain stable until end-use markets improve.
Sawlog deliveries rose 4% while sawmill margins stayed under pressure; Sveaskog expects lower log prices to gradually improve sawmills’ conditions, with some delay.
Compared with the previous month, production was up 6.4%.
Swedish lumber producer prices rose 0.6% from August but were 1.5% lower than a year earlier.
Profits across all industrial enterprises rose 15.5% over the same period.
Annual growth outpaced that of Brazil overall industrial producer prices by 0.7 percentage points.
The publicly owned mill expects the shutdown to last about two months, until frozen ground lets crews reach hemlock stands.
Duties on Canadian softwood lumber would go into loan funds for homes built with U.S. wood, and tariffs on mill machinery not made in the U.S. would be removed.
About 70% of the country's wood is estimated to come from illegal logging, and in top timber state Chihuahua the illegal trade rivals the legal market.
An amendment in force since October 22 lets the Korea Forest Service give national forest timber to state bodies and forestry public institutions for wood construction and research.
Private forests supplied 4.0 million m3, 9.3% less than a year earlier.