US sawn-softwood production reduced by 4%

(EUWID Boston) At a total of 35.380m m³ (Jan.-March 2021: 36.741m m³), the North American sawmilling industry produced 3.7% less sawn softwood in the first quarter of 2022. Whilst the works in the USA managed to keep their output steady at 21.841m m³ (21.889m m³), the volume of sawn softwood produced in Canada fell...

Finland exported a total of 2.213m m³ (Jan.-March 2021: 2.225m m³) of rough-sawn and planed sawn softwood worth €682.3m (€482.3m) in the first three months of 2022. As such, a 1% lower volume of exports coincided with an increase of 41% in the export value. The reduction registered in the third quarter of 2021 (-5% to...

In the first three months, German imports and exports of rough-sawn softwood fell short of the respective figures for last year....