
The U.S. containerboard maker expects fourth-quarter adjusted EPS of $2.81, with maintenance outages at three mills and higher fiber, freight and energy costs.

Sweden's construction industry association expects 31,000 homes to be started in 2026 and 31,700 in 2027, down from 33,500 and 35,900 in its March forecast.

Private forests supplied 4.0 million m3, 9.3% less than a year earlier.
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The Polish wood flooring maker said it cannot guarantee workers' safety at its plant in Vinnytsia, which Russian drones hit in July 2025.

The family-owned company blamed a difficult economy; operations continue and its subsidiaries are not affected.

Compared with September 2025, production was down 4.9%.

Homebuilding margin fell to 18.3% amid higher lot costs, affordability-related pricing pressure and weak consumer sentiment; mortgage banking income increased 7% while closed-loan production fell 10%.

The central bank raised its 2027 average key-rate forecast to 12.5%-13.5%.

EBITDA rose 25% sequentially as containerboard conditions strengthened and industrial raw-material costs fell; packaging-paper deliveries rose year on year but fell from the second quarter.

The weekly figure counts pulp in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses that can be delivered against SHFE bleached softwood kraft pulp futures.

Mass timber makers would get a 10% credit and research spending a 20% credit; the bill now goes to the House Ways and Means Committee.

Prices fell 0.2% month over month in September.

The pulp maker skipped a $25.8 million interest payment on October 1 and is negotiating a recapitalization with bondholders.

Pellet prices jumped 38.5% from a year earlier, while softwood lumber prices slipped 0.8% from August; overall industrial producer prices rose 6.7%.

Housing permits, a guide to future construction, rose 25.8% to 21,607 units; January–August starts were up 11% from a year earlier.

Prices fell 4.1% from August but remained up 11.5% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 14.5% year over year.
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