Seattle, WA, October 20, 2010 -- Continued increases in demand for wood raw-material from sawmills, plywood plants and pulp mills in China has pushed domestic log prices upward and many Chinese companies are increasingly exploring the opportunities of importing more logs and wood chips to supplement the domestic fiber sources.
OTTAWA, Nov. 3, 2011 /CNW/ - An elite group of Ontario's leading architects, engineers, and project teams received Wood Design Awards at the 11th annual Wood WORKS! awards celebration. The awards recognize people and organizations that, through design excellence and innovation, are advancing the use of wood in construction.
Wood fibre costs for the global pulp industry reach new highs in 2011 with the biggest increases seen in Russia, Finland and Western US, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. Wood costs account for about 60 percent of the production costs when manufacturing pulp for paper. According to the Wood Resource Quarterly, wood fibre costs have gone up about 25 percent since early 2009, reaching record levels in the 2Q/2011.Wood fibre prices, which currently are at or close to record highs, have fluctuated quite substantially over the past 24 years the WRQ has tracked global forest industry markets.
There has been a lot of analysis in the last few days concerning the impact the massive earthquake, and tsunami in Japan will have on North American timber markets.
On Friday, shares of North American timber companies jumped with the thought that an increase in lumber demand will occur to rebuild Japan’s damage.
Global market pulp production increased by seven percent in 2010, which increased demand for wood raw-material. As a result, prices for wood chips and pulplogs were up in most regions of the world, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
The total revenues from timber and timber products exported from the Siberian Federal District in 2010 amounted to USD 2 bln and 342.5 mln (7,6% of total number of products exported from the region) and these figures exceed by 5% those of 2009. Round wood timber amounted to 34,6% of total price of exported timber products and the products of wood processing numbered to 65,4%.
The UK Forestry Commission is predicting that the increased use of wood-fuelled boilers could boost the industry.
According to the commission, there has been a growth of businesses and consumers opting to install eco-friendly biomass boilers to reduce fuel bills and lower emissions.
In particular, the Forestry Commission highlighted the recent decision of Bradford council to use biomass fuel at its City Hall and Ilkley Town Hall as part of commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by 20 per cent in 2010/11.
Swedish Forest Society's timber manager Magnus Juntikka is critical to the speculation about the lower Russian wood tariffs. - Very little show that the duties on raw timber will be lowered to 2 euros per cubic meteras we have read in the press. Rather, he believes the market price will be seven or eight euros for softwood pulpwood and timber and possibly hardwoods at two euros according to a pressrelease to Mynewsdesk.
More detailed price information, including data broken down by felling type, is to be published by Finland’s forest industry in a bid to help timber sales.
The Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) said the current price information based on the average stumpage price of all standing sales had become outdated.
