world news - 19.05.2003
UK wood production 2002
In 2002, removals of UK roundwood totalled 7.6 million cubic metres underbark (2001: 7,23 mio. cbm). A total of 2.5 million cubic metres of sawnwood was produced in the UK (2001: 2,5 mio. cbm). 2001 existed 276 sawmills in UK with 15 bigger than 50.000 cbm production capacity. A total of 8.8 million tonnes of pulp and paper, with an estimated value of 3,778 million was imported to the UK in 2002. Pulp and paper also accounted for the majority of exports, generating a total of 1,021 million.
See also:
- — European Timber Packaging Conference. Timcon have announced the itinerary of the 2003 FEFPEB Timber Packaging Conference which will be held in Edinburgh 10-12th September.
- — Producers' stocks of market pulp in Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States rose in April by a more-than-expected 127,000 tonnes versus March to 1.59 million tonnes, Finland's forest industry said on Tuesday.
- — Moldovan Exhibition Centre To Host Two Intl Fairs May 21-25, 2003
- — According to the latest statistics, China's imports of timber continued to climb in the first quarter of 2003.
- — Bosnian wood and timber indastry on brink of collapse. Trade associations of timber and wood industry's companies within the chambers of commerce of Bosnia-Herzegovina's two entities insist on the immediate discontinuation or the drastic restriction in the export of logs and sawn timber.