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• January 27, 2012 12:31

  
  

  German Sawmills To Cut 15% More By 2015

  Half of the German sawmills expect a deterioration of the log supply and rising log prices (on average by 12 percent) up to 2015. This is one of the results of a new survey of the consultancy Schwaerzer & Partner from Munich presented at the 2012 sawmill congress of the association of the German sawmill and wood industry, VDS. At the same time, 46 percent of the respondents indicate that they intend to increase their production volume by an average of 15 percent. [more...]

• January 16, 2012 11:09

  
  

  Germany: Warm Winter Troubles Pellet Producers

  In Germany, continuing warm weather conditions force sales of pellets down. Across the board, pellet producers reported a significant reduction in sales volumes. "At these temperatures, people simply need less", a manufacturer's declares unemotionally. Drop in demand vary within a wide range of 30 to 70 percent in January compared to the usual sales. [more...]

• December 13, 2011 08:16

  
  

  Germany: KVH Prices Pressurized Without Trouble

  Non-integrated manufacturers of finger-jointed squares and beams (KVH) currently seems to have a price advantage. They can use special offers in raw squares of a few large sawmills and so reduce prices for KVH products. In the face of the high log prices, price query for November and December in KVH surprises with low results. Official price lists show still € 290/cbm (6er bars), but many manufacturers report lower prices. [more...]

• November 18, 2011 08:47

  
  

  Germany: Diverse Price Ideas in Industrial Timber

  The forestry will raise prices once more or save at least steady prices. The wood products and pulp industry seek a clear price correction. After initial price negotiations in pulpwood for new annual contracts have failed, positions of the two parties are a long way away from each other. [more...]

• November 10, 2011 21:03

  
  

  Germany: KWF Conference 2012 to Act Big

  "We will beat the Swedes", by these words Herbert Körner and Dr. Ute Seeling provoked the rivlary between the KWF Conference 2012 and the Swedish Elmia Wood. The forest contractor and the director of the Kuratorium für Waldarbeit und Forsttechnik (KWF) assume the upcoming conference in Bopfingen to be the biggest forestry equipment event worldwide. [more...]

• November 03, 2011 20:29

  
  

  Future Developments in Softwood Markets Uncertain

  Following a partial recovery of the markets for sawn softwood in 2010, and fairly good sales in the first half of 2011, the markets for sawn softwood production and consumption have slowed down again, tempering the expectations for 2011 and 2012, in particular in Europe, as delegates at the 6 th International Softwood Conference held in Copenhagen on 20 and 21 October 2011 reported. [more...]

• October 31, 2011 09:49

  
  

  China's Industry Throttles Demand for German Oak

  Oak log exports to China show a heavy drop in the August figures of the German federal statistical office Destatis. In August, Germany exported just 400 cbm Oak to China, a decline of 88% from the previous year. Demand of the timber industry in China has dropped sharply. Volumes intended for export in the hardwood season 2010/2011, were still offered to German sawmills in the past few weeks. [more...]

• October 18, 2011 15:50

  
  

  Germany: C-Beech Between Top Seller And Shop Keeper

  Currently a top seller, tomorrow a dead article. This means Beech logs in C-quality. From January 2012, there might be C-Beech for domestic sawmills galore. Talks with Chinese exporters are emerging more and more that the season could already be finished in December 2011. Only sporadically dealers report high demand from China. Sawlog qualities are hardly in demand. Factories in China have cut back or stopped production. Stocks in China are high, and Chinese banks are more restrictive in prefinancing and hedge of imports from Europe. [more...]

• October 17, 2011 16:44

  
  

  European Pellet Market Returns To Earth

  "The pellet market in Europe languishes", a machine manufacturer describes the current situation at Stuttgart based trade fair Interpellets in early October 2011. The time of the new pellet plants in Central Europe is over. In the past 18 months, many projects in Northern and Central Europe failed and productions closed ... [more...]

• September 29, 2011 09:56

  
  

  South-Germany: Throughout Over € 100/m³ in Softwood Logs

  In recent weeks uncertainty among the sawmills is great, and the appeals of the wood industry to the forestry to cut prices become louder. But such wishes fall on deaf ears at representatives of forest associations in Bavaria. They expect stable prices in Q4 or even a slight increase of 1 to 2 euros per m³. [more...]