The two-year project at the uncoated recycled paperboard mill in Virginia starts in early 2027 and keeps output at about 120,000 tons a year during construction.

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.

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.

The cut applies only to the rates from the 2017 investigation that started the duties. The largest producers already pay rates set in annual reviews, so their payments do not change, while exporters never reviewed will pay 12.80% instead of 14.19%.

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.

Net orders dropped in the first nine months, and the company now expects 4,600 to 4,800 home closings in 2026.

The German maker of decor papers and edgebands for the panel and furniture industries lifted its adjusted EBITDA margin to 12.2% from 11.4% and confirmed its 2026 forecast of Euro 790 million to Euro 820 million in sales.

Net sales were flat at $2.19 billion as volumes rose 1% and prices slipped 1%. The paperboard packaging maker expects full-year adjusted EBITDA of about $1.05 billion and a return to EBITDA growth in 2027.

A judge halted the Forest Service relocation plan in mid-October in a lawsuit by federal employee unions. USDA has appealed and says the stay leaves 25 fire management posts and 10 avalanche center lead jobs unfilled.

Year to date, wood products shipments were up 0.4% and paper products shipments up 2.0%, against a 7.5% gain for all manufacturing.

Siding sales grew 7% to $473 million as volumes returned to growth, while the OSB segment posted another loss.

Construction openings were up 44.7% from a year earlier, against a 4.9% rise for all nonfarm industries.

Price for MDF panels exported from Turkish rose marginally 0.7%.

Holders of more than 87% of the senior notes and a majority of shareholders back the plan, which cuts about $96 million of annual interest and brings in $400 million of new money. Existing shareholders will keep about 8.5% of the new common stock.

Plywood average net selling prices rose 31% from a year earlier.