Italian sawmills in trouble, revenues and margins down

Until the autumn of last year traders and producers would have been willing to buy wood at basically any price. The raw material was in short supply, following the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, and the demand from processing companies (for construction and furniture, but also for industrial packaging) was dizzying. Prices halved across Europe One year ago pellets had reached the price of 600 euros per ton, the lumber for packaging 400/480 euros, the laminated reached 1,000/1,100 euros per cubic meter. «Today prices, on average, have halved. Italian sawmills are struggling with ...