Poland: Restrictions on harvesting could lead to serious consequences for the wood industry

The Polish budget will lose approximately PLN 7 billion (EUR 1.55 billion), and nearly 10,000 people will lose their jobs—these are the preliminary estimates of problems related to the availability of wood raw materials, which are becoming increasingly felt in Poland, according to the latest Deloitte report. For several years, the Polish wood industry, which is part of the green economy (wood is a renewable resource), has been struggling with increasing problems in accessing raw materials, leading to increasingly serious issues for this important sector of our economy. According to Deloitte data contained in the ...