Market Analysis

Current softwood log inventories at Chinese ports

    Softwood log inventories at the China’s main ocean ports totaled 5.7 million m3 on [...]

New Zealand: Log export market update in May 2022

Although the May at wharf gate (AWG) New Zealand log export prices are very similar to those offered in April [...]

Setra to invers in TC kilns at two sawmills in Sweden

Setra invests in TC wood drying kilns for sawmills in Heby and Hasselfors, Sweden. The kiln in Heby will begin [...]

Record wood prices in France

    The increase is reported in all species, with the highest increases in oak and douglas.  [...]

Logging in Russia drops due to export restrictions; lumber prices drop

  During the first quarter of 2022, logging in Russia fell by 2.4%, from 70.7 million cubic [...]

Log prices in Austria rise sharply in May

    In May 2022, Austria's timber construction is still benefiting from a very good demand situation [...]

China: Timber supply pressure rises as lockdowns continue

    Since 2020, Covid-19 lockdowns have had a huge downstream impact on the global timber supply [...]

Sweden: The war in Ukraine is causing wood prices to skyrocket

More and more people are competing for the forest raw material. The ongoing war in Ukraine has sharply reduced Russia [...]

Timber prices in UK rise again in March after months of decrease

Material prices in the UK have shot up again after months of gradual decrease, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine [...]