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Australia’s demand for paper and paperboard down 4.4% over last year
Driven lower by a plunge in consumption of Newsprint and progressively lower demand for other Printing & Communication papers, Australia’s total demand for paper and paperboard fell 4.4% in the 2016-17 financial year. In volume terms, the decline was... -
Softwood log exports hit new annual record
Australia’s softwood log exports recorded a new annual high of 4.244 million m3 for the year-ended July 2017. Exports for the month of July totalled 488,911 m3, the second highest monthly volume ever, behind the record 511,275 m3 recorded... -
Australia’s hardwood chip exports linked directly to China’s success
As with so much in the modern mercantile world, China is all things in the hardwood chip export trade, at least from Australia’s perspective. IndustryEdge’s latest analysis shows that China’s demand has driven Australia’s export growth over the last... -
Hardwood Pulp Leads Market in China as Softwood Stumbles
As softwood pulp prices turned down in June and hardwood pulp prices rose or were stable in most major markets, attention turned to the nature of the downturn in global pulp prices. However, there is no absolute certainty that... -
Finkel’s Clean Energy Target offers spark of opportunity for domestic manufacturers
Australia’s energy crisis is a real thing, impacting real businesses, especially in manufacturing. The impact of rapidly rising energy costs (electricity and gas) and supply insecurity, raises the prospect of facility closures over the next year to two years.... -
Hardwood chip owners, exporters and supply chains under sustained cost pressures
Modest price increases in recent months and reports of further increases for premium hardwood chip grades mask the reality of the last two decades – real prices received by growers and exporters have been falling almost continuously. Unlike the... -
Trailer parks and prefab housing will change the sector for the better
Some revolutions occur noisily and with fanfare, while others, even in the same sphere, occur quietly, arousing little attention. That seems to be the case with the changing patterns of Australian housing. On the noisier end of the spectrum... -
Wood pellet market potential developing slowly, for Australia
For Australian producers, the global wood pellet market is developing relatively slowly, largely due to our distance from the main markets in Europe. Global wood pellet production reached almost 28 million tonnes in 2016, around 4% higher than total... -
Dwelling approvals continue to slow – but not multi-storey townhouses
Australia’s dwelling approvals continue to slow, creating a storm of media commentary and action by regional governments to give at least the appearance they can do something about the slowing market. With approvals totalling 226,832 dwellings for the year-ended... -
Records tumble as softwood logs exit the nation
Australia’s total log exports fell just short of the 4 million m3 mark in 2016, with exports totalling a mammoth 3,965,907 m3, valued at AUDFob531.7 million. The annual record was capped off by the largest ever single month of...
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