the timber network

. A comparison between the fourth quarter of 2011 and the same quarter of 2010 shows falling prices of sawlogs (-10 percent) and rising prices of pulpwood (6 percent

Price decline for wood pellets in Switzerland has stopped. Pelletpreis.ch reports slightly rising prices for November. Average price increases from CHF

. Exceptions are assortments for the pulp and paper industry. Here, prices continue to rise. Averaged Log Prices in State-owned Forests Free Alongside Forest Road EUR / m³ without VAT  

off after rising strongly. The development and sales of environmentally related technology are increasing and the issue of ground damage continues to be topical

The Home Depot®, the world's largest home improvement retailer, today reported sales of $16.0 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011, a 5.9 percent increase from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. Comparable store sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 were positive 5.7 percent, and comp

. The knock-on effect of this is to cause prices for Brazilian timber products in the international markets to rise. Brazil is the one of the main suppliers of tropical timber to Europe but, as more Brazilian timber production begins to be used locally, exports will likely decline i

Germany imports more Oak lumber again. After declining figures in the first half of 2011, deliveries rose in August. The eight month period of January to August now show an increase of 4%. Higher White Oak deliveries from the U.S. and from Canada set off the trend reversal. For the largest suppliers

Beech intended for China stays in Germany Although Heiko Vogler can already visualize his Easter vacation, he doesn't put aside the thoughts about his work. The wood trader from Schwärzelbach commercializes oak and beech to China and he is experiencing at present an extreme situation. He had to pay

The gluelam prices in Germany are rising. But when asking the producers, they are not rising fast enough, meaning that the increase is not sufficient to compensate for the climbing softwood lumber prices

The paper market in broad areas is rising again. According to the Association of the German Paper Industry VDP production and sales of the German paper industry registered an increase of around 11 percent in Q1 of 2010, compared with the reference quarter in 2009

³. Softwood lumber consumption will rise by 5.5% m³ to 145.8 million m³. From 2007 to 2008, production had declined by 12.1%. Change from 2008 to 2009 was at -14

Softwood sawlog prices have trended upwards in all major regions of North America over the past two years. The biggest increases have occurred in the US Northwest, where the log export market has had a major impact on the supply-demand balance. Total log shipments to Asia from the US west coast l

. Early price negotiations for the 3rd Quarter show a rise in prices in Hesse ( see table below ). In contrast to spruce volumes the agreed pine quantities are not yet delivered

In June 2011, Oak lumber exports of German sawmills amounted to 9,268 cubic meters. This volume ranged at the level of the previous months, but remained well below the level of June 2010 (12,982 cubic meters). Exports to China have sligthly declined compared to the first five months, but remained at

Russia has for many years been, by far, the largest exporter of logs in the world. When the country announced a log export tax of 25 percent in 2007 and the intention to increase this tax to 80 percent in 2009, many forest companies in Asia and Europe decided to reduce their reliance on Russian lo