The Global Forest Industry This Quarter

Excerpts from the 4Q 2014 issue of the Wood Resource Quarterly. To subscribe to the full 52-page market report, please visit www.woodprices.com

• Sawlog prices were generally lower throughout the world in the 4Q as compared to earlier in the year.
• Wood fiber costs for pulp mills fell slightly in many countries in the 4Q.
• The world market prices for NBSK pulp have remained practically unchanged.
• Global trade of softwood lumber has continued to trend upward.
• Lumber consumption in the US increased over six percent in 2014.
• Prices for lumber declined in Finland and Sweden.
• Chinese demand for lumber weakened during the second half of 2014,
• Pellet exports from North America rose marginally to Europe; the increase to Asia was more noticeable.

Special report in the current WRQ issue: Russia’s log and lumber exports in 2014

Also, quarterly prices for sawlogs, pulpwood, wood chips, pellets and lumber from around the world.

The full news brief from the latest issue of the Wood Resource Quarterly can be downloaded here …

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Hakan Ekstrom, Wood Resource Quarterly