According to China Customs data in the first half of 2020 China’s log imports showed a year on year decline of 68% in volume and 70% in value. While New Zealand’s log exports to China fell by 70%, the country still held position 1 among the suppliers with 5.25 million…
Despite the corona crisis, in the first half of 2020, Germany produced 1.502 million tonnes of wood pellets, thus breaking a new record. The German Energy Wood and Pellet Association eV (DEPV) justifies this with the increasing demand for climate-friendly fuel in Germany and abroad paired with a very good…
The German forestry and timber industry was already in a state of emergency before the coronavirus pandemic: storms, drought and bark beetles have been threatening the industry for over two years. The German companies had already reached their limits in order to cope with the amount of damaged wood and…
The Ifo Business Climate Index fell to 86.1 points in March, after 96.0 points (seasonally adjusted) in February. This is the strongest decline ever recorded in reunified Germany and the lowest since July 2009. In particular, companies’ expectations of future business activity deteriorated immensely. The assessments of the current situation have also…
The German Sawmill and Wood Industry Association (DeSH) and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rohholz eV (AGR) have decided that after the spread of the coronavirus in Germany to postpone the sawmill congress in Würzburg, which is planned for March 11 and 12, 2020. The event in combination with the AGR raw material…
The German Ministry of Agriculture, BMEL, has published updated data on the ravages suffered by the German forest for two years following storms, periods of extreme drought, fires and attacks by bark beetles. By adding the estimates for the current year, the ministry estimates that the volume of attacked or damaged…
The prices for solid wood and wood-based materials for pallets and wood packaging in Germany continued to rise in the third quarter of 2018. Solid wood for pallets Following a rapid increase in prices in the second half of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, prices for solid wood for…
In June 2018, German producer prices for commercial wood products continued to rise. Almost all figures show a rising trend compared to the previous year. In the short-term comparison with May there are also some declining values. Construction-related products have developed noticeably more strongly than those that are more likely to be…
In May 2018, the producer prices for commercial wood products continued to rise slightly in Germany. Almost half of the figures are unchanged compared to April, only wood chips and pellets have fallen slightly. In comparison with the same month of the previous year, the construction-related wood products values in particular have increased…
The German Association of Wood Packaging, Pallets and Export Packaging (HPE) price index shows that solid wood and wood-based materials for the production of pallets and wood packaging continued to increase. Apart from OSB, all price indices have reached new highs. The index for solid wood for wooden packaging is now at an all-time…
