High timber prices present historic opportunity for the Swedish forest industry

Raw material prices in agriculture and forestry are fluctuating in unprecedented ways. Swedish sawmills are lamenting unsustainable timber prices, but are timber prices truly high, and are they temporary?  There are strong indicators that we are facing a new reality. With reduced supply from Canada and a significant decrease in timber flow from Russia to the West, a substantial supply gap has emerged that even a poor construction market cannot compensate for. Statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency reveal historically low stocks of roundwood at and en route to the forest industry. The taiga, the boreal forest, spans ...