Tiếng Việt
Vietnam sets ambitious $20 billion wood export target for 2025
Vietnam sees wood and wood works as a spearhead industry, earning export revenues of $18-20 billion by 2025.
Timber industry urged to go digital amid long-term impacts of COVID-19
Forestry products are one of the few products seeing export growth despite COVID-19 threatening economic development in countries around the world.
Fearing anti-dumping lawsuits, VN wooden furniture firms diversify markets
The US has decided to conduct an investigation on whether Vietnam is dumping plywood products in the US. The decision could lead to a sharp fall in plywood exports to the market.
Vietnam factories rethink 'sleepover' approach to stopping COVID
The warehouse manager at Truong Thanh Furniture near Ho Chi Minh City did her best to avoid the virus. For weeks, she worked and slept at the factory alongside 200 colleagues, with few people allowed in or out.
What is Butcher block ?
Butcher block or butcher's block is a style of assembled wood (often hard maple, teak, birch, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards. It was commonly used in butcher shops and meat processing plants but has now become popular in home use.
Wood industry at crossroads to engineer survival strategy
The ongoing coronavirus outbreaks are now threatening to bring the timber industry to its knees, with businesses and associations hoping for preferential vaccine treatment and financial support for test kits and other pandemic-related expenses.
COVID-19 production suspension hampering timber exports
Suspension of production at local wood processing enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic is having effects on exports, according to the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFOREST).
Vietnam’s wood products export surges 55 percent in seven months
Vietnam exported 9.58 billion USD worth of wood and wood products in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 55 percent, according to the General Department of Customs.
Firms, associations seek Govt’s help to overcome difficulties triggered by Covid-19
Enterprises and associations, at a teleconference with the prime minister on August 8, made multiple proposals to remove their difficulties so as to resume production during the pandemic, stressing the need to accelerate the Covid-19 vaccination for laborers.
Forest environmental services to bring about 2.8 trillion VND in 2021
The Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) aims to collect 2.8 trillion VND (121.7 million USD) from forest environmental services this year.
