Industry Prices

Norske Skog to sell its wood pellet company in New Zealand

Norske Skog has entered into agreement with Talley’s Group, a New Zealand based dairy, fishing, produce and food company [...]

Outlook for New Zealand’s exports of logs to China challenging

New Zealand log export revenue was up 34 percent during the year to 30 June 2021 due to stronger than [...]

Sweden’s sawmill industry reports record production in 2021; outlook positive for 2022

    Analysts predicted that 2021 would be a new record year for the Swedish sawmill industry as [...]

2022 global wood pellet market outlook

The industrial wood pellet markets have been growing at an annualized rate of about 1.66 million metric tonnes per [...]

Rising prices could keep European lumber exports to the US at high pace in 2022

    European softwood lumber exports to the USA continued to rise in 2021, although the pace of [...]

US lumber plunges for 7th day on demand fears, supply chain chaos

US lumber futures tumbled by the exchange limit to $1,053.70 per 1,000 board feet on the Chicago [...]

Northern Europe sawmills have some of the lowest sawlog prices in the world

    Record-high lumber prices in North America and Europe have moved both demand and sawlog values [...]

Austria: Wood prices at high levels for the moment

Like other raw materials, the prices for lumber shot up to unprecedented heights last year. It wasn't just finely [...]

Czech wood prices on a roller-coaster ride

    A simple economic reasoning suggests that the prices of wood correspond to its current availability or [...]