January 19, 2022 What is the short- and long-term impact of the flooding in Malaysia? Malaysia (and many other parts of Asia) has seen the…
January 10, 2022 What are our expectations for 2022? Last year was relatively good despite the enormous challenges our industry faced. Key markets like Malaysia,…
September 28, 2021 Can China reverse the increasing freight cost? All of us are aware of rising sea freight costs. In most cases, they spiked…
August 23, 2021 There is lots of daily news about the Covid pandemic situation worldwide, including lots of misinformation. Here you can read a more…
July 7, 2021 Who has it right? These are headlines of recent articles which appeared in a well know media platform for our wood industry;…
June 12, 2021 “Indonesia furniture-makers fear losing ground as IKEA expands” This was the header of an article that appeared in The Jakarta Post earlier…
May 17, 2021 Is Artificial Intelligence suitable for the Malaysian woodworking industry? The export value of Malaysian timber-related products is about U$5.4 billion in 2020,…
May 17, 2021 Beech – the underappreciated resource for furniture manufacturing We are all well aware of the strongly increased prices of various rough sawn…
April 28, 2021 Russian Proposed Export Ban of Logs In October last year, Russia’s president Mr Putin announced that Russia intends to ban the export…
April 14, 2021 Vital Shipping Canals I originate from the Netherlands (also known as “Holland”), and the Dutch are well known as skilled seafarers for…