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France entered the second half of 2026 with an increasingly divided sawmill market. GWMI\u2019s reading of the latest French sales, price and construction data points to a clear improvement on the softwood side, where domestic business has strengthened and several construction lumber products have moved higher, while hardwood mills continue to face weak demand across traditional end markets. The recovery is therefore uneven rather than industry-wide, with high sawlog costs, relatively short order books and only a limited improvement in construction still keeping pressure on margins and production decisions.<\/p>\n

The latest France Bois For\u00eat industry barometer shows just how sharply the two markets have separated. Turnover among companies dominated by softwood logging and sawmilling increased 4.7% in the second quarter from Q1, with domestic sales up 7.2%. Exports, by contrast, declined 3.0%, meaning that the improvement came primarily from the French market. Hardwood companies moved in the opposite direction: turnover fell 5.9% quarter on quarter, domestic sales dropped 9.0% and exports were 1.2% lower. Compared with the 2022 average, turnover nevertheless remains around 23% lower for softwood-dominant companies and 28% lower for hardwood operators, showing how far activity still is from the levels prevailing before the latest downturn.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Q2 2026 vs Q1 2026<\/th>\nSoftwood<\/th>\nHardwood<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Total turnover<\/td>\n+4.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n-5.9%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Domestic sales<\/td>\n+7.2%<\/strong><\/td>\n-9.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Exports<\/td>\n-3.0%<\/td>\n-1.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Turnover vs 2022 average<\/td>\n\u2248 -23%<\/td>\n\u2248 -28%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Softwood mills are selling more, but the recovery is expensive<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French sawmill sector is not suffering from a simple collapse in production. The latest complete official figures show production of lumber, railway sleepers and stavewood reaching 8.2 million m\u00b3 in 2024, 3.7% more than in 2023, even as commercial timber harvesting fell 2.7% to 38.1 million m\u00b3. What has become more important is the price and accessibility of the timber entering sawmills, the mix of species available and whether mills can recover rising raw-material costs through their lumber prices. That has become particularly difficult for softwood processors, which are benefiting from stronger lumber markets at the same time as competition for sawlogs remains intense.<\/p>\n

In the latest industry survey, 74% of softwood respondents said their raw-material purchase prices were above normal, while 58% described margins as below normal. Only 19% considered selling prices to be above normal. The figures explain why higher lumber prices should not automatically be interpreted as a period of exceptional profitability for French sawmills: much of the additional revenue is being absorbed upstream. Mills have regained some ability to move prices, particularly for spruce, fir and pine construction products, but they are doing so from a high-cost sawlog base and with order books of only around 4.9 weeks.<\/p>\n

Hardwood producers face almost the reverse situation. Raw-material pressure has eased for several species, particularly oak, but the improvement has been more than offset by poor consumption. Only 5% of hardwood respondents said selling prices were above normal and 44% reported margins below normal. Order books stood at around 6.5 weeks, somewhat longer than in softwood, but the quarterly sales numbers show that this has not translated into stronger business.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Market indicator<\/th>\nSoftwood<\/th>\nHardwood<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Raw-material prices above normal<\/td>\n74%<\/strong><\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margins below normal<\/td>\n58%<\/td>\n44%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Selling prices above normal<\/td>\n19%<\/td>\n5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Order books<\/td>\n4.9 weeks<\/strong><\/td>\n6.5 weeks<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
Construction is giving softwood mills some support<\/strong><\/div>\n
The change in the softwood market is partly connected to the gradual stabilisation of French residential construction. Conditions remain weak by historical standards, but the decline is no longer as uniform as it was during the worst phase of the housing downturn. France recorded roughly 29,600 housing permits in July, 2.5% fewer than in June, while about 370,700 homes were authorised during the twelve months to July. That figure remained 9.5% below the average of the previous five years, so there is little evidence of a powerful construction upswing.<\/div>\n

There are, however, early signs of improvement beneath those weak headline volumes. Average monthly permits during January-July were 1.4% above their 2025 level, while housing starts increased 8.9% in July to around 27,700 units. For sawmills selling structural spruce, fir and pine, this is enough to provide better demand than a year ago even though it is not yet enough to generate a major volume cycle. In practice, the French softwood market is tightening while final construction demand remains relatively modest, an unusual combination that helps explain the strength of lumber prices.<\/p>\n

The supply side has added further pressure. Heavy rainfall early in 2026 restricted access to forest roads and harvesting sites in several regions, disrupting log deliveries and forcing some processors to reduce activity temporarily. Those weather-related problems have eased, but the French softwood market remains connected to a European sawlog system that has changed considerably following years of high beetle salvage volumes in Germany and Central Europe. As those exceptional flows receded, competition for spruce and fir logs became more intense, leaving French mills increasingly exposed to high procurement costs.<\/p>\n

Softwood lumber prices moved sharply higher in Q2<\/strong><\/p>\n

That pressure is visible in the second-quarter lumber price data. Standard spruce and fir construction products recorded some of the strongest increases. Grade 2 beams and joists reached \u20ac292\/m\u00b3, 7.4% above Q1 and 14.8% higher than a year earlier, while rafters reached \u20ac300\/m\u00b3 and battens \u20ac358\/m\u00b3. Grade 4 spruce\/fir boards recorded an even steeper move, climbing from \u20ac182\/m\u00b3 in Q1 to \u20ac213\/m\u00b3 in Q2, an increase of 17.3% in three months and 37.3% year on year.<\/p>\n

Scots pine followed the same direction. Grade 2 beams reached \u20ac280\/m\u00b3, 14.4% above Q2 2025, while framing and lamella material rose to \u20ac298\/m\u00b3, an increase of 20.1% year on year. Maritime pine was less consistent, although Grade 2 beams increased to \u20ac339\/m\u00b3, while Douglas fir remained comparatively stable, with most structural specifications in the \u20ac350\u2013400\/m\u00b3 range.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Product<\/th>\nQ2 2026<\/th>\nQoQ<\/th>\nYoY<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Fir\/spruce Grade 2 beams & joists<\/td>\n\u20ac292\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+7.4%<\/td>\n+14.8%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fir\/spruce Grade 2 rafters<\/td>\n\u20ac300\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+7.8%<\/td>\n+12.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fir\/spruce Grade 2 battens<\/td>\n\u20ac358\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+7.9%<\/td>\n+13.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fir\/spruce Grade 4 boards<\/td>\n\u20ac213\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+17.3%<\/strong><\/td>\n+37.3%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maritime pine Grade 2 beams & joists<\/td>\n\u20ac339\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+7.3%<\/td>\n+11.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scots pine Grade 2 beams & joists<\/td>\n\u20ac280\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+6.4%<\/td>\n+14.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scots pine framing & lamella<\/td>\n\u20ac298\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+6.4%<\/td>\n+20.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

For mills, the important point is the relationship between those lumber increases and sawlog procurement costs. The price increases are substantial, especially in selected spruce\/fir specifications, but the industry survey indicates that they are being used primarily to defend margins rather than create unusually high returns. Softwood sawmills therefore enter the second half of 2026 with better sales conditions than a year ago, but also with little room for a renewed surge in log costs.<\/p>\n

Hardwood mills are caught on the demand side<\/strong><\/p>\n

The French hardwood business is moving through a different phase of the cycle. Oak remains expensive in absolute terms, yet price momentum has faded across several lumber specifications. Kiln-dried cabinetmaking QBA oak in the 40\u201349 cm category averaged \u20ac1,690\/m\u00b3 in Q2, almost unchanged from Q1, while material in the next diameter category fell to \u20ac1,910\/m\u00b3. Several QB1 joinery assortments declined by around 4\u20135% during the quarter. Standing oak had already moved lower before this, with the average French standing oak price falling about 17% in 2025 after several years at historically high levels.<\/p>\n

Beech is also weak. FB1 lumber averaged \u20ac370\/m\u00b3 in Q2, 4% below a year earlier, while FB2 dropped 14% to \u20ac220\/m\u00b3. This is where the contrast with softwood becomes clearest: lower timber prices are not enough to help a sawmill when downstream markets are unable to absorb production at attractive prices. Furniture, joinery, flooring and other traditional hardwood outlets remain much softer than the structural construction segments supporting softwood demand, leaving hardwood mills with limited scope to lift selling prices even after the easing of log costs.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Product<\/th>\nQ2 2026<\/th>\nQoQ<\/th>\nYoY<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Oak QBA boules, 40\u201349 cm<\/td>\n\u20ac1,690\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.3%<\/td>\n+2.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak QBA boules, 50 cm+<\/td>\n\u20ac1,910\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.8%<\/td>\n-1.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak QB1 boules, 40\u201349 cm<\/td>\n\u20ac1,289\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-4.5%<\/td>\n-0.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak QB1 boules, 50\u201380 cm<\/td>\n\u20ac1,415\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-5.3%<\/td>\n-2.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak selected boards QSA\/QS1<\/td>\n\u20ac1,305\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n0.0%<\/td>\n+12.4%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak selected boards QS2<\/td>\n\u20ac809\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.7%<\/td>\n+1.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak QF2 edged boards, 100\u2013150 mm<\/td>\n\u20ac1,009\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+7.2%<\/strong><\/td>\n-2.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oak QF2 edged boards, 160 mm+<\/td>\n\u20ac1,398\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-2.4%<\/td>\n+10.2%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beech FB1 boules<\/td>\n\u20ac370\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.1%<\/td>\n-4.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beech FB2 boules<\/td>\n\u20ac220\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.2%<\/td>\n-14.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poplar Grade 1 edged boards<\/td>\n\u20ac357\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+4.8%<\/td>\n+6.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poplar Grade 3 boards<\/td>\n\u20ac261\/m\u00b3<\/strong><\/td>\n+2.5%<\/td>\n-6.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

France has plenty of timber, but still processes too little of it<\/strong><\/p>\n

The split between softwood and hardwood also exposes a much older problem in the French wood industry. France has around 17.6 million hectares of forest, equivalent to roughly one third of metropolitan France and Corsica, and forest area increased by 9% between 2010 and 2024. Around two thirds of the resource consists of hardwood stands. Yet France continues to import far more value in processed wood products than it exports, despite having one of Europe's biggest forest resources.<\/p>\n

The forest, wood, paper and furniture sector posted a trade deficit of \u20ac7.2 billion in 2025. Raw wood itself generated a \u20ac254 million surplus, but processed products recorded a deficit of approximately \u20ac7.4 billion. In simple terms, France remains capable of exporting part of its unprocessed timber resource while importing much more value in furniture, pulp, paper and other converted wood products.<\/p>\n

The comparison with Germany illustrates the industrial gap. France has substantially more forest area, yet Germany processes roughly 2.5 times as much wood. The difference cannot be explained by forest availability. France has a more fragmented timber resource, fewer high-volume industrial processing sites and a species mix dominated by hardwoods that does not always correspond to the requirements of mass construction and industrial wood markets. Private ownership makes mobilisation more difficult as well: around 75% of French forests are privately owned, and two thirds of private owners hold less than one hectare. Only 27% of private forest area is covered by a sustainable-management document.<\/p>\n

More harvesting will only help if processing capacity follows<\/strong><\/p>\n

French policy is now attempting to raise timber mobilisation. The government wants annual harvesting to increase from approximately 52 million m\u00b3 in 2024 to 60 million m\u00b3 by 2030, an additional 8 million m\u00b3 a year. It has also provided \u20ac125 million for 88 wood-industry projects during 2024 and 2025, including investments intended to modernise production facilities and expand domestic manufacturing of construction products.<\/p>\n

For sawmills, however, increasing the harvest is only one part of the equation. Without additional competitive processing capacity, stronger timber mobilisation could simply produce more logs available for export rather than more lumber and engineered wood manufactured in France. The immediate market situation in 2026 shows the same imbalance on a smaller scale: softwood processors would like access to more competitively priced sawlogs just as their finished-product market is strengthening, while hardwood processors have a substantial domestic forest resource but still lack enough demand for the products they can manufacture from it.<\/p>\n

France consequently enters the remainder of 2026 without a single sawmill cycle. Softwood mills are operating in a tightening market, with better domestic sales and sharply higher prices for several structural products, but sawlog costs remain a serious constraint and order books are still too short to justify aggressive production ahead of demand. Hardwood mills have seen some easing in timber prices but continue to face weak downstream consumption and pressure on lumber prices.<\/p>\n

For the French sawmill sector, the decisive issue is no longer simply how much timber is standing in the country's forests. France already has the resource. The question is how much of that timber can be mobilised at commercially workable prices, converted in competitive domestic sawmills and sold into markets capable of paying for the finished product.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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