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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…