<br />
Norra<br />
Timber<br />
News<br />
No. 2 • 2023<br />
From plant<br />
to plank<br />
-a holistic approach<br />
matters to<br />
Hanna Östman<br />
The couple that<br />
took a smart shortcut<br />
to their dream house<br />
AI plays<br />
matchmaker<br />
at Sävar Mill<br />
Norra Timber News no 2 2023<br />
1<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
Everything’s<br />
shrinking!<br />
I’m writing this while flying back home from the 2023 International Soft Wood Conference in<br />
Vienna, where I spent a few intensive days talking with and listening to some of the leading<br />
analysts in our industry. And the general conclusion is that demand for timber is decreasing in<br />
basically every major market around the world. Timber consumption, for example, is expected<br />
to fall by almost 20 percent in the EOS area from 2021 to 2024. You actually have to go all the<br />
way back to 2014 to find such low levels of demand. North America’s construction industry<br /><a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=1"> Norra Timber News No. 2 • 2023 From plant </a>
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<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=8"> REPORT </a>
<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=9"> REPORT The couple that took a smart shortcut t</a>
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<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=11"> Slow-grown timber from northern forests Nort</a>
<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=12"> INDUSTRY AI Plays Matchmaker at Swedish Sawmill T</a>
<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=13"> INDUSTRY How does it work? Incoming lo</a>
<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=14"> LATEST NEWS Photo: Svenskt Trä/Christina Brandin</a>
<a title="Norra Timber News 2023-2 eng page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/4d724b66?page=15"> SALES DIRECTOR Sales Director Erik Eliasson </a>
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