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Wood fiber prices for the global pulp industry rise 11%, reaching pre-financial crisis levels in the 1Q/2010, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

2010-05-21 17:13 Wood Resources International The strong pulp market has pushed wood fiber costs upward in most regions around the world the past 12 months. Both the softwood and hardwood wood fiber price indices (SFPI and HFPI) have gone up the past year and were more than 11 percent higher in the 1Q/10 as compared to 1Q/09, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.

Hardwood fiber costs for the global pulp industry increased over 15% in 2009, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

2010-02-12 18:05 Wood Resources International Wood fiber costs for pulp mills worldwide increased for the fourth consecutive quarter in the 4Q/09. During 2009, the Hardwood Wood Fiber Price Index (HFPI) moved up 15.4%, while the Softwood Wood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) was up 10.5%, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

Global sawlog prices jumped almost 8% in the 3Q/09 because of improved lumber markets in the US and Europe, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

2010-01-19 18:33 Wood Resources International In the 3Q/09, the Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) had the highest quarter-to-quarter jump in the 15-year history of the Index, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. The Index increased for the third straight quarter and reached just over US$73/m3.

Hardwood fiber costs for the global pulp industry have surpassed the cost for softwood fiber in 2009 as demand for hardwood pulp rose, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

2009-12-02 23:57 Wood Resources International Higher hardwood pulpwood costs in Brazil, Australia, Russia and Sweden pushed the 3Q/09 Global Hardwood Fiber Price Index (HFPI) to the highest level in 12 months, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. The HFPI was over six percent higher than the Global Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI), the biggest difference in 21 years.

Wood costs were 53% of the total production costs for pulp mills worldwide in the 1Q/09, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.

2009-08-13 23:04 Wood Resources International The largest cost component when manufacturing wood pulp is the cost of wood fiber. In the 1Q/09, this cost was 53% of the total production cost worldwide. Both the relative and nominal cost of wood have declined the past year; wood fiber costs in the 2Q/09 were at their lowest levels in over two years, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

The black liquor tax credit in the US has limited the fall of wood chip and pulpwood prices in the 2Q/09, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review

2009-07-03 06:07 Wood Resources International In 2008, US pulp companies started to take advantage of a loophole in the US tax law, which will result in an influx of billions of dollars to a struggling industry. As a consequence, prices for wood chips and pulpwood in the US have not fallen as much as they would have without the subsidy, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review

The slumping economy has reduced sawlog prices in Europe and North America to the lowest levels in five years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

2009-06-18 22:39 Wood Resources International Softwood lumber markets have continued to weaken and as a result, demand for sawlogs has fallen worldwide and the Global Conifer Sawlog Price in the 1Q/2009 was down 26 percent from a year ago, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.

Wood fiber costs fell in the US South and the US Northwest in the 1Q/09 as pulpmills were taking extensive downtime, reports WRI.

2009-04-14 05:06 Wood Resources International Wood fiber costs have diminished in all regions of the US this year as the decline in fiber demand by the pulp industry has been greater than the reduction of residual chips supply from the sawmilling sector. The past six months, pulpwood costs have fallen about 10% in the US South and 20% in the US Northwest, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review.

Wood chip prices fell in Canada in the 1Q/09 as pulpmills reduced their operating rates substantially, reports WRI.

2009-03-31 06:27 Wood Resources International Many Canadian pulpmills run at operating rates of less than 70 percent in the 1Q/09. As a result, wood chip prices fell in most provinces with the biggest declines occurring in British Columbia and Alberta. The western provinces had the lowest wood chip prices in North America in the 1Q, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review.

Expanding timber plantation resources in Uruguay attract pulpmill investments from European forest companies, reports Wood Resource Quarterly

2009-03-11 22:42 Wood Resources International Favorable timber growing conditions, a good business climate and a stable political environment has attracted a number of European forest companies to invest in Uruguay the past few years. The establishment of fast-growing Eucalyptus and pine plantations could eventually support two or three new pulpmills, according to the WRQ.