Market Analysis

July roundwood prices in Finland

As usual, the roundwood trade in Finland slowed down in July. Roundwood purchases included in the statistics amounted to 1 [...]

Swedish softwood logs prices keep on going down

In the second quarter of 2019, according to the Swedish statistics, softwood logs prices in Sweden continued to fall, although [...]

China: MDF prices on the rise

Recently, the increasing intensity of environmental supervision has caused wood-based panel manufacturers in Shandong and Hebei to fall into [...]

Price recovery for New Zealand’s logs exports to China

New Zealand log prices in China have improved after slumping earlier in the year, restoring a little confidence to the [...]

Slowdown in forest activity affects pellet producers in North America

Follow-through from unstoppable demand for solid wood products at the end of 2017 lead to robust lumber sales through [...]

Wood starts to replace concrete in the global construction industry

For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now [...]

New rules for US hardwood logs exports to the European Union

The new EU implementing directive 2019/523 of 21 March 2019 (available on request) concerns the protection measures against the [...]

Vietnam expands wood pellet exports to Japan

Pellet imports to Japan from Vietnam jumped 219.6% y-o-y in first half of 2019 to 420.9 [...]

Investigation of padauk export from Congo to EU impacts prices

In early July Belgian Customs blocked the release of a shipment of padouk sawnwood dispatched from Gabon. The Belgian authorities [...]

Germany: Price overview for wood products

    Producer prices for commercial wood products in Germany continued to decline in June. While there is [...]