Tag: roundwood

Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 15.7% in January-February 2021

In January-February 2021, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 15.7% YoY and totaled 2.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia...

Russia increased its roundwood exports by 30.1% In January 2021

In January 2021, the volume of Russian roundwood exports increased by 30.1% YoY to 1.026 million m³, in value terms, exports increased by 33.7% YoY to $75 million, the Federal Customs Service of Russia reports. The volume of...

Sweden: Decrease in roundwood prices 2020

The report of statistics on Swedish roundwood prices in 2020 show decreasing delivery prices compared to 2019. The price of pulpwood decreased by 11% and the sawlog price by 7% compared to 2019, according to new statistics from...

Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 6.6% in 2020

In 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 6.6% YoY and totaled 14.8 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments from Russia reduced...

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, on the implications of the roundwood export ban being introduced from 2022 onwards; Luzales plans to build an MDF plant worth 5 billion rubles; the Ministry of Industry and Trade may introduce a temporary ban on the export of particleboards from Russia; analysis of the current situation in the particleboard, laminated particleboard, MDF market

Russian Timber Journal 12-2020: WhatWood interviewed Mr. Andrey Konoplev, General Director of Group Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki, about the ban on the export of unprocessed timber to be introduced from 2022; Luzales agreed on the conditions for the construction of an MDF...

Russia reduced its export of sawn timber by 5.9% in January – November 2020

In January – November 2020, the volume of sawn timber exported from Russia reduced by 5.9% YoY and totaled 13.7 million m³, as reported by the Federal Customs Service of Russia. The value of foreign sawn timber shipments...

Roundwood prices rise in Finland

The price of logs kept increasing in standing sales in November 2020. The average price for pine logs was € 56.2 per m³ and the price for spruce logs was € 60.6 per m³. This was 3-5% more...

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: European Union is going to conduct an anti-dumping investigation in relation to birch plywood import from Russia, EU may impose duties; interview with Ilya Korotkov, Director General at Cherepovets Plywood and Furniture Mill; Russia is consistently growing the export of larch sawn timber

Russian Timber Journal 10-2020: the European Commission reported the start of the investigation that will determine whether Russian birch plywood import is subject to dumping and whether the European Union industry was harmed; WhatWood Agency had a conversation...

Sweden: roundwood prices continue to decrease

The trend of decreasing delivery prices in Sweden continued during the third quarter of 2020, according to new statistics from the Swedish Forest Agency. The price of pulpwood decreased by 5.9% and the sawlog price by 3%, in...

Russian Timber Journal 08-2020: Ranking of Top 100 Russian timber industry companies in 2019: slowing down as global economy growth decelerates; interview with Management at Metadynea – Russia’s largest synthetic resins producer; the Russian wood-based panel sector is trying to recover from the recession of the coronavirus crisis

Russian Timber Journal 08-2020: the total revenue of the Top-100 forestry companies in 2019 amounted to RUB 1.19 trillion, which in current prices is only 0.44% more than in 2018, and this is the minimum growth rate over...

In May 2020 Finland reduced timber harvesting by 14%

In May 2020, 3.5 million m³ of roundwood was harvested for use by the forest industries in Finland. This removal volume was down 14% from the previous year and 4% above the ten-year May average. Sawlogs accounted for...

China: booming roundwood supplies from the Czech Republic and Germany in 2019

China’s log imports in 2019 totalled 60.57 million m3 valued at US$9.434 billion (CIF), a year on year increase of just 1% in volume but there was a decline in the value of imports by 14%. The average...