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Text no.: 001 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
European wood-based panel output 2017
edged 3.0% higher last year to 57.6m m³
European wood-based panel manufacturing increased 3.0% to 57.6 (2016: 55.9) million m³ last year, according to the European Panel Federation (EPF), based in Brussels. The year-on-year growth rate has thus intensified after 2016 had ended... more 
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Text no.: 002 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Prices for planeable rough-sawn whitewood
set to rise by another 3-6 €/m³ in third quarter
In the preliminary contracts concluded for deliveries of planeable softwood timber by the beginning of July 2018, more price increases have been pushed through for deliveries from Finland and Sweden. The upward trend observed in the preceding... more
Text no.: 003 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Heavy demand for timber registered in
the sawn softwood markets in North Africa
Business activity on the North African softwood-timber markets has continued to become stronger and more consistent in the last few weeks. After the sometimes very sharp increase that occurred in April/May, demand is at a high level overall.... more
Text no.: 004 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Industrial beech remains sought after in Austria
Competition for the volumes of industrial beech put out for collection by Austrian forest owners remained tough in the second quarter. Wood-purchasing organisations of the two pulp mills in Austria converting industrial beech report an... more
Text no.: 005 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Panel and pellet producers
dispensing with cuts in prices
In price negotiations for sawdust deliveries in the third quarter, Austrian wood-based panel manufacturers, sawmill-residue merchants, and pellet works not integrated into sawmills have dispensed with significant reductions in their purchase... more
Text no.: 006 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Slovenian Lesy SR wants
to export 19 % fewer logs
The Slovenian state forest office Lesy SR of Banská Bystrica is planning to reduce the volume of its log exports for this year by 19.3 % to 80,000 m³ (2017: 99,141 m³). The purpose of this is to reduce the proportion of the... more
Text no.: 007 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Log prices still falling in northern/eastern Germany
Owing to the increasingly limited receptiveness of sawmills in northern and eastern Germany and a high supply of assortments of storm-damaged wood, considerable pressure is being exerted on prices for out-of-contract volumes of both spruce and... more
Text no.: 008 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
First generation of bark beetles now swarming out
The first generation of bark beetles has begun swarming in large parts of southern Germany in recent weeks to breed siblings. According to the latest forest-protection report of the Bavarian State Institute for Forestry (LWF), the main outbreak... more
Text no.: 009 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Forest owners in Bavaria
aiming to reduced green felling
At a joint meeting, representatives of the Bavarian forest-owner association (Bayerischer Waldbesitzerverband), forestry associations, and the Bavarian forest office (Bayerische Staatsforsten – BaySF) of Regensburg have spoken out in... more
Text no.: 010 Issue TS28/2018 Publication date: 11.07.2018
Undiminished high volume of pine-timber sales
From the point of view of northern and eastern German sawmills, the sales situation on the domestic market held at the level already reached in May until the end of the second quarter and in some places even continued to improve. In spite of a... more
