Archives: June 2021

Boom in Austrian lumber prices now reflected in the payment to forest owners

According to official statistics, Austria's timber prices are now rising. Austrian sawmills are in full swing and they sell [...]

There is a bubble in Latvia’s timber market that will burst sooner or later

    Currently, the Latvian lumber market is experiencing a significant price increase or bubble, which will sooner [...]

Warning in US against European lumber

The North Carolina Building Code Council warns of potentially “catastrophic” failures caused by European lumber. It remains to be seen [...]

US lumber prices expected to drop to $600 in the next six months

     The price of US lumber futures has pulled back from May's peak, falling roughly 43 [...]

Central Europe: Sawmills struggling to get logs; historical price increases

Within the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) softwood lumber prices in June are still on the rise due to [...]

New coronavirus outbreak causes huge backlog at China’s ports

    A coronavirus outbreak in in southern China has clogged ports critical to global trade, causing a [...]

Brussels aims to tighten rules on burning wood pellets

    Brussels wants to tighten rules to prevent some forms of wood-burning energy from counting towards [...]

US lumber enters a bear market with prices down 20% from peak

US lumber prices are falling—fast.    On Tuesday, the price per thousand board feet fell $114 [...]

Finland’s sawmills benefit from lumber boom

    The outlook for the Finnish forest industry is quite positive, Danske Bank's economic information estimated [...]

Wood prices are breaking records in Poland

    Polish sawmills are struggling with rising wood prices. Currently, in the free market, they have to [...]