Timber demand

May 30, 2023

Södra anticipates rising timber demand in summer and autumn and raises prices

Södra is now carrying out price increases on several timber ranges. For example, the price of spruce timber and softwood will be increased by ten and fifteen percent, respectively.... Continue reading →

November 28, 2022

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House , the London-based specialist alternative asset manager, has a lower estimate but is still forecasting that global timber consumption will surge by 170% over the next 30 years, driven by urbanisation, decarbonisation and housing demand. It forecasts timber consumption will increase by 3.1% a year over the next 30 years up to 2050, up from 1.1% a year during the past 20 years. The vast majority of global commercial timber supply is sourced from temperate forests in the northern hemisphere (Canada, the US, northern Europe and Russia) and plantations in Oceania (New Zealand and Australia). These climates are conducive to the growing of softwood timber. However, the increase in urban dwellers is concentrated in regions with insufficient resources of mature... Continue reading →

November 28, 2022

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House , the London-based specialist alternative asset manager, has a lower estimate but is still forecasting that global timber consumption will surge by 170% over the next 30 years, driven by urbanisation, decarbonisation and housing demand. It forecasts timber consumption will increase by 3.1% a year over the next 30 years up to 2050, up from 1.1% a year during the past 20 years. The vast majority of global commercial timber supply is sourced from temperate forests in the northern hemisphere (Canada, the US, northern Europe and Russia) and plantations in Oceania (New Zealand and Australia). These climates are conducive to the growing of softwood timber. However, the increase in urban dwellers is concentrated in regions with insufficient resources of mature... Continue reading →

November 28, 2022

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House , the London-based specialist alternative asset manager, has a lower estimate but is still forecasting that global timber consumption will surge by 170% over the next 30 years, driven by urbanisation, decarbonisation and housing demand. It forecasts timber consumption will increase by 3.1% a year over the next 30 years up to 2050, up from 1.1% a year during the past 20 years. The vast majority of global commercial timber supply is sourced from temperate forests in the northern hemisphere (Canada, the US, northern Europe and Russia) and plantations in Oceania (New Zealand and Australia). These climates are conducive to the growing of softwood timber. However, the increase in urban dwellers is concentrated in regions with insufficient resources of mature... Continue reading →

February 28, 2023

Africa: Few new timber orders from China

With the end of the ‘lockdowns’ in China and with the Lunar New Year holidays over producers had anticipated an increase in orders for the Chinese market, this has yet to materialize. Now producers are looking ahead to the end of February or even March before they expected demand to improve. In Cameroon producers are trying to adjust to the high export duties along with handling the administrative requirements under the recently imposed CITES regulations on a range of species including khaya and doussie, pachyloba and padouk. At the moment importers are showing no interest in absorbing some of the higher export transaction cost through better prices. Reports suggest the market for khaya is very dull but that there is still some interest in doussie and padouk for the Belgian market. Padouk producers are busy milling log stocks in order to ship by the end of this month but,... Continue reading →

November 28, 2022

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House , the London-based specialist alternative asset manager, has a lower estimate but is still forecasting that global timber consumption will surge by 170% over the next 30 years, driven by urbanisation, decarbonisation and housing demand. It forecasts timber consumption will increase by 3.1% a year over the next 30 years up to 2050, up from 1.1% a year during the past 20 years. The vast majority of global commercial timber supply is sourced from temperate forests in the northern hemisphere (Canada, the US, northern Europe and Russia) and plantations in Oceania (New Zealand and Australia). These climates are conducive to the growing of softwood timber. However, the increase in urban dwellers is concentrated in regions with insufficient resources of mature... Continue reading →

February 28, 2023

Africa: Few new timber orders from China

With the end of the ‘lockdowns’ in China and with the Lunar New Year holidays over producers had anticipated an increase in orders for the Chinese market, this has yet to materialize. Now producers are looking ahead to the end of February or even March before they expected demand to improve. In Cameroon producers are trying to adjust to the high export duties along with handling the administrative requirements under the recently imposed CITES regulations on a range of species including khaya and doussie, pachyloba and padouk. At the moment importers are showing no interest in absorbing some of the higher export transaction cost through better prices. Reports suggest the market for khaya is very dull but that there is still some interest in doussie and padouk for the Belgian market. Padouk producers are busy milling log stocks in order to ship by the end of this month but,... Continue reading →

Global demand for timber could grow fourfold by 2050

The World Bank forecasts that global timber demand will quadruple by 2050, driven by economic and population growth. Gresham House , the London-based specialist alternative asset manager, has a lower estimate but is still forecasting that global timber consumption will surge by 170% over the next 30 years, driven by urbanisation, decarbonisation and housing demand. It forecasts timber consumption will increase by 3.1% a year over the next 30 years up to 2050, up from 1.1% a year during the past 20 years. The vast majority of global commercial timber supply is sourced from temperate forests in the northern hemisphere (Canada, the US, northern Europe and Russia) and plantations in Oceania (New Zealand and Australia). These climates are conducive to the growing of softwood timber. However, the increase in urban dwellers is concentrated in regions with insufficient resources of mature... Continue reading →

May 30, 2023

Södra anticipates rising timber demand in summer and autumn and raises prices

Södra is now carrying out price increases on several timber ranges. For example, the price of spruce timber and softwood will be increased by ten and fifteen percent, respectively.... Continue reading →