Chairman of the Finnish sawmill industry: There will be a big shortage of wood in the world

Matti Kylävainio, the chairman of Sahateollisuus ry (Finnish Sawmills Association), predicts that there will still be a severe shortage of wood in the world. He justifies his vision with the fact that the world's largest softwood reserves are in Russia. Now the country is closed off from the world market, with the exception of China and Central Asian market countries. "When the global economy takes off, there are simply no alternative sources of supply. There have been massive forest fires in Canada, forests in Central Europe have been over-cut for half a decade due to ...