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Håkan Ekström: Dec 2, '22
Russian forest product exports likely fall by 50% year-over-year in the second half of 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been costly to the...
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Håkan Ekström: Nov 7, '22
Sawlog prices in Central Europe have almost doubled in the past two years — the highest increases on the continent. Over the past two years, sawlog...
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Håkan Ekström: Nov 1, '22
The US South softwood timber resource is significant, cost-competitive, and increasingly crucial for the global supply of several forest products. In...
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Håkan Ekström: Oct 13, '22
Global trade of softwood logs plunged by 20% during the first half of 2022 year-over-year (YoY). Much of the decline was because of the Russian log...
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Håkan Ekström: Oct 3, '22
Russia's war is changing wood pellet market dynamics in Europe, with prices tripling in 12 months. The international trade of wood pellets has...
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Håkan Ekström: Oct 2, '22
A halt in Russian log exports and reduced wood demand in China contributed to a 20% decline in international softwood log trade in the first half of...
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Håkan Ekström: Sep 15, '22
Performance across 2022 has thus far seen global impacts from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Demand instability continues to affect all major areas...
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Håkan Ekström: Sep 3, '22
Tight wood fiber supply and record high pulp prices have pushed the worldwide costs for pulplogs and wood chips upward 10% the past year. Wood fiber...
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Håkan Ekström: Sep 1, '22
Global trade of softwood lumber fell about 10% in the first half of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021. Most of the decline was driven by lower...
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Håkan Ekström: Aug 17, '22
Prices for pulplogs and wood chips increased QoQ in early 2022 in all 19 regions worldwide as tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ). This...
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Håkan Ekström: Aug 1, '22
Wood fiber costs for pulp manufacturing have gone up worldwide in 2022 as fiber demand remained strong and supply tightened. Prices for pulplogs and...
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Håkan Ekström: Jul 13, '22
Eucalyptus plantations in Latin America are a significant supply source to pulpmills in China and Japan. However, the Latin American share of total...
