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Text no.: 001 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Wood-based panel manufacturers cite higher
raw material costs in efforts to charge more
Central European particleboard and MDF manufacturers are increasingly underscoring rising raw material and logistical costs in current talks to settle on terms for deliveries from March or April 2021 onwards. Spiralling costs for purchasing... more 
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Text no.: 002 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Sawn softwood likely to remain in short
supply in United Kingdom until middle of year
As had already been the case in the second half of last year, British buyers find themselves confronted with problems in obtaining homegrown timber made in the UK as well as imported sawn softwood. According to information from market players,... more
Text no.: 003 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Czech Forest substantiates damaged-wood estimate
The Czech forest institute Czech Forest of Kostelec nad Cernými lesy is working from the assumption that 35-40m m³ of beetle-damaged wood arose on an area of 82,938 ha in the Czech Republic last year. Roughly 31m m³ of this has... more
Text no.: 004 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
US hardwood lumber exports
up for the first time since 2018
In the fourth quarter of 2020, US exports of hardwood lumber across all types of wood and all sales markets increased by 11% to a volume of 784,909m³ (Oct.-Dec. 2019: 706,808m³). The US Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agriculture... more
Text no.: 005 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Price of pine in Estonia
16.5 % higher in December
The price for pine sawnwood in Estonia in December 2020 was 16.5 % higher than in January (€64.68/m³) at €75.38/m³ ex forest road. According to information from the Estonian national forest administration RMK of Tallinn, the... more
Text no.: 006 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Further decline registered in
Latvian roundwood exports
Latvian roundwood exports in the fourth quarter of 2020 were 16.0 % down at 658,300 m³ (Oct.-Dec. 2019: 783,300 m³). According to figures published by the forest department of the Latvian ministry of agriculture in Riga, industrial... more
Text no.: 007 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Latvian sawnwood exports
boosted by 9.5 % in Q4 2020
Latvian sawn-softwood exports in the fourth quarter of 2020 were 9.5 % higher than a year earlier at 704,000 m³ (Oct.-Dec. 2019: 643,100 m³). According to the figures published by the forest department of the Latvian ministry of... more
Text no.: 008 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Sharp reduction registered in Austrian pellet
industry’s sawmill-residue requirement
Austrian pellet works have throttled back their production in the last few weeks. This applies in particular for works in western Austria and, to a slightly lesser extent, for those in the southern parts of the country too. The cause of the... more
Text no.: 009 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Industrial wood prices raised by board manufacturers
A number of Austrian wood-based panel manufacturers have improved their purchase prices for industrial wood during the course of the first quarter 2021. The has been the case especially for a few MDF-producing facilities that had reduced their... more
Text no.: 010 Issue TS09/2021 Publication date: 03.03.2021
Sawmills’ roundwood intake
restricted by roadblocks
The thaw in Austria since mid-February 2021 has induced numerous local authorities in Styria and Carinthia as well as in some parts of Upper and Lower Austria to set up roadblocks to log traffic as usual for the time of year. After the... more
