Woodchips are one of the few forest products commodities that have seen a steadily increasing trend in globally traded volumes the past decade. With the exception of 2009, when global production of pulp fell by about ten percent and the demand for wood
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European pulpmills imported much less Eucalyptus chips from Latin America during 2012, mainly because Spanish pulp mills reduced their reliance on relatively costly wood fiber from Uruguay
to the North American Wood Fiber Review.
High wood fiber inventories, plenty of sawmill chips and pulplogs, and maintenance
shutdowns by a number of pulp mills were the main reasons woodchip prices fell by
Vietnam has taken over Australia as the world’s largest supplier of woodchips to pulp
mills in Asia. In 2011, Vietnam exported 5.4 million tons, triple that in 2007, as reported
.
For Poland, Belarus is becoming an interesting market of energy wood. The imports of hardwood chips also grew with 130% (75,008 tons in 2011 and 172,406 tons in 2012
In 2007, China imported woodchips from only three countries: Vietnam,
Indonesia and Australia, who together shipped 1.1 million tons throughout the year
countries in Europe, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly.
In the 3Q, woodchip prices in Western Canada increased again due to their formulaic tie
More than 80 million tons of woodchips, valued at almost ten billion US dollars, are
traded annually in the open market worldwide and the shipment volumes are increasing
The pulp industry from Spain and Portugal decided in 2012 to rely more on the domestic sources of wood fiber rather than on imports. The main reasons are the relatively costly wood fiber from Latin America and the fact that pulp mills have paid less for pulp logs in
Australia, the world largest exporter of woodchips, reduced shipments by 28% during the first half of 2009. The biggest decline was that of softwood and hardwood chips to Japan, which were down 31% and 36
Chinese hardwood chip imports will double from 6.3 million Bone Dry Metric Tons (BDMT) in 2011, to 12.7 million BDMT in 2016. Japan's imports of hardwood chips will drop from 9.9 million BDMT to 8
The international financial crisis in 2009 had a major negative impact on worldwide
demand for pulp and paper products. As a result, the consumption of woodchips and
Between 2004 and 2008, the global trade of woodchips increased by 4% per year on average, reaching a record 32 million tons last year. This upward trend was broken in 2009 with trade being down 26
.
According to the North American Wood Fiber Review, in 2Q/09, woodchips and pulpwood prices fell between 5 and 8% in the US, with the highest decline in the Northeast
Wood fiber consumption by the Japanese pulp industry reached a record high in 2008.
Over 72 percent of the consumed woodchips were imported, most from hardwood
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