Market Analysis

EU Commission presents its climate package, European forest industry reacts

The European Commission presented the Fit for 55 plan on Wednesday, July 14. 13 legislative proposals are intended to help [...]

China: Log demand slows in July

The past six months have brought record New Zealand export log prices to China This has been because of a [...]

N. American lumber prices lose all 2021 gain, with demand dropping after record boom

North American lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction [...]

Rising trend timber prices in the Netherlands has no end in sight

    Timber prices in the Netherlands have more than doubled in recent months. It's also not [...]

Australian softwood log exports crash due to China ban, prices stable

Australia’s average softwood log export price slumped to a reported AUDFob109/m3 in May 2021, down 16% on the [...]

Volume bark beetle damaged wood in Europe expected to be lower this year

    Over the last few years, Central European forests (but also parts of Sweden, France, and Belgium [...]

North American lumber prices fall for the 9th consecutive week

     Lumber prices notch their ninth consecutive weekly loss after a brief resurgence earlier in the week [...]

Boom in demand for sawn softwood in France; prices going up

As long as it lasts! In the softwood forests of eastern France, sawyers are crossing their fingers because the sawnwood [...]

Prices for European spruce logs in China fall sharply in June

    On the whole, June Chinese imported spruce logs fell sharply. The price of spruce/white pine [...]