Market Analysis

Austrian demand for softwood sawlogs goes up in January 2022

    Austria's sawmills are currently still largely sufficiently stocked with needle saw logs. Now that production [...]

German wood prices: 50 percent more money for spruce logs

German forest owners received around 50 percent more money for spruce logs in November. Overall, raw wood prices for producers [...]

Why N. American lumber prices have nearly tripled again?

Simple economics popped the lumber bubble last year. Once the price of lumber topped $1,515 per thousand board feet [...]

Rising trend of Russian lumber prices expected to continue

The upward trend of Russian lumber may continue into June this year. From January to October 2021, the market price [...]

CEPI urges EU leaders to swiftly act against unbearably high energy prices

Together with other energy-intensive industries, the Confederation of the European Paper Industry (CEPI) is calling on EU leaders to [...]

New Zealand’s wood industry optimistic as log export prices lift

    The New Zealand forestry industry has started the New Year with a bit more optimism than [...]

Sweden’s forwarder market 2021 slowed by global boom

    The data on the number of registered forwarders are now compiled and we can see that [...]

Lumber prices in US are ‘looking like a repeat of 2021’

     A survey of home builders revealed expectations that lumber prices will continue to soar in 2022 [...]

Germany’s timber prices expected to rise as beetle infestation decreases

    After the price level had fallen due to the bark beetle infestation, an increase is now [...]

Russian log export ban entered into force

  On January 1, 2022, a complete ban on the export of unprocessed or roughly processed timber of softwood [...]