High timber prices pose challenges for Swedish sawmills

What has driven the price curve to rise in an exceptional way mainly in 2023 is the low timber supply rather than consumption. Now we can see change in attitude in the Swedish wood industry, which means that many who previously saw the price situation as something extreme that will correct itself, are starting to move to something more like a permanent condition. ''The industry has somehow started to accept this high level. If it will then stay this high or if it will be 10-15 percent lower, we dare not say. But it is quite obvious that ...