Global wood industry market predictions for 2018

In 2018, the US lumber producers will supply most of the 1.5bbf production gap in British Columbia, while the Canadian and European capital would possibly flow into US forest products assets at higher rates than in the previous year.  For 2018, Forest2Markets analysts forecast the following:  1. Pulp market will continue to race forward.    With China’s moratorium on Mixed Paper imports (as a feedstock), many pulp mills in China are converting to virgin pulp at a time when market demand is increasing. Two million tons of pulp production will come