Wood house building

The new facility is being built at the combined plant in Värö, north of Varberg, where Södra’s first CLT facility is located. The new facility is expected to be commissioned in mid-2022 – and it will get off...

New residential construction in the U.S. showed a substantial decrease in the month of February 2021, according to a report released by the US Commerce Department on Wednesday, with housing starts extending the sharp pullback seen in the...

Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an...

Wooden housing construction decreased by 10.4% YoY to 35,8 thousand units.

Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, announced this in her interview with NTV channel. The Deputy Prime Minister said that there are in total 65 enterprises in Russia that are engaged in the industrialized production of wooden...

On 25 February, Mikhail Shamolin, the president of Segezha Group, visited Sokol in Vologda region to oversee the grand launch of the Sokol CLT plant (Segezha Group is a subsidiary of Sistema JSFC). The plant is the first...

After reporting a sharp increase in new residential construction in the U.S. in the previous month, the US Commerce Department released a report on Thursday showing housing starts pulled back by much more than expected in the month...

The share of wooden houses in the total low-rise housing construction in the USA, Canada, and Finland is over 80%. The share of total wooden housing construction reaches 50% in many countries, while in Russia it is only...

Russian Timber Journal 01-2021: WhatWood Agency interviewed Dmitry Rudenko, Vice President of Segezha Group, about the expectations for wooden housing construction and the CLT construction technology that is relatively new for Russia; WhatWood Agency summarizes key theses of the plenary...

Sales of previously owned homes in the US rose in 2020 to the highest level since 2006, as ultra-low interest rates and remote work during the pandemic increased homebuying demand. Existing-home sales rose 0.7% in December from November...

Vera Khmyrova, Head of the Department of Light Industry and Forestry Complex of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said on Tuesday that it is necessary to develop a mechanism of preferential loans for the construction of wooden...

U.S. home construction starts rose in December 2020 to the best pace since late 2006 as builders responded to the robust demand for single-family housing. Residential starts climbed by 5.8% to a 1.67 million annualized rate, according to...