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Art of plywood negotiation

Monday 7 November 2022. – In the late pandemic era, many plywood contract discussions are done over a video call, but luckily some negotiations take place face to face. This

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Trust matters

Friday 21 October 2022. – This week British prime minister Liz Truss resigned after six weeks of service. That’s quick. The trust in Truss was lost. Fortunately, the company CEOs

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Diamonds are forever, how about sanctions?

Friday 7 October 2022. – I have never visited Cuba, but when the country is mentioned, my mind gets full of images of the streets of Havana with old buildings

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99 days to 2023

Friday 23 September 2022. – The US housing starts jumped unexpectedly by 12.2% in August 2022 compared to July. However, the starts had dropped in July which partly explains the

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Price control

Friday 9 September 2022. – Inflation means that things get more expensive, right? And high inflation means that things get quickly more expensive? The consumer price inflation in the USA

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Hiding or selling

Friday 26 August 2022. – Plywood selling in an overdemand situation is not really selling if selling is understood as finding new customers. In strong demand, there is more use

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All logs in one basket

August 12, 2022. – Traditionally plywood mills have been built on domestic log supply. There has been plenty of forest around, and the procurement area has been defined as a

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Summer 2023 is nearly here

July 05, 2022. – Plywood buyers and sellers have been busy this year, once again. The global plywood market is inter-connected, and the supply/demand changes somewhere impact all continents. We

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Are crude oil and birch logs cousins?

June 17, 2022. – I guess all of us have noticed how gasoline, electricity, and food prices have increased lately. At the same time, our eyes have opened to see

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