First rays of spring
Thursday 21 March 2024. - The construction-related wood panels, OSB and softwood plywood, have experienced poor demand for over a year. However, upon examining trade statistics from every continent, we…
Pirates make plywood shipping price hike
Tuesday 23 January 2024. - Three years ago, in March 2021, the container vessel Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal. The traffic was blocked for six days, and…
Haven’t found the crystal ball yet
Wednesday 20 December 2023. - For laziness reasons, I copied today my blog post from January this year. However, I had to make some edits to my 11-month-old prediction. Deletions…
Is customer awareness needed?
Tuesday 7 November 2023. - In business, people who sell products deal with customers all the time. But when you work behind the scenes in a factory, you might wonder…
How to get ready for the next downturn
Friday 29 September 2023. - The plywood market today is gloomy. While business hasn't collapsed entirely, volumes have dipped far below what we were accustomed to not so long ago.…
Planned maintenance break approaching
Thursday 22 June 2023. - A few decades ago, I found myself crawling under a conveyor belt in the late Kuopio plywood mill in Finland. My task was to dig…
Why are Chinese not buying plywood mills from Russia?
Friday 2 June 2023. - According to Yale School of Management's list, over 1,000 companies have curtailed operations in Russia by May 2023. While the list is mainly occupied by…
Are labour union’s days over?
Friday 5 May 2023. - Labour Day is a common public holiday across the world. Some celebrate on May 1st and some in September. It is a carnival, but originally…
Shady imports
Tuesday 19 April 2023. - If you buy drugs, you probably understand that it’s illegal and it’s imported. A buyer doesn’t spend time wondering which laboratory the powder is coming…
A raw megatrend
Monday 27 March 2023. - Plywood production films from the 50s and 60s present huge logs. Human arms are too short to get around the trunks. Logs are peeled to…
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