{"id":74846,"date":"2017-03-27T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/overview-uk-hardwood-import-market-share\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:46:58","slug":"overview-uk-hardwood-import-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/overview-uk-hardwood-import-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview of the UK hardwood import market share"},"content":{"rendered":"

A UK Timber Trade Federation (TTF) conference on the UK hardwood market sponsored by The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) was held on 9 March. The conference aimed to provide a more accurate picture of the hardwood market in the UK and to inform the activities of the TTF which aims to revitalise the market development work of their National Hardwood Division (NHD) in co-operation with AHEC and other producer associations.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Statistics shown at the TTF conference indicated there has yet to be any significant switch from the US to Europe in UK temperate hardwood imports. In fact, the long-term trend in rising US share of UK hardwood imports continued last year.<\/p>\n

UK imports of U.S. sawn hardwood were 105,000 cu.m in 2016, 2% more than the previous year. The US accounted for 32% of all UK sawn hardwood imports in 2016, up from 31% the previous year and around 21% a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Several factors explain the continuing increase in US hardwood share in the UK market in 2016 despite the exchange rate trend. The UK is strongly oriented towards oak, which is readily available from the US but for which supplies from Europe have become increasingly restricted in the last two years.<\/p>\n

Effective market development campaigns have also boosted UK demand for American tulipwood, an abundant hardwood now very popular for manufacture of kitchen components, mouldings and other interior applications, often substituting for lighter tropical species like ayous which have become less readily available.<\/p>\n

The rise in US share in the UK market in 2016 is also partly explained by stock building by UK importers who speculated, rightly as it turns out, that prices for US white oak would continue to rise and the GBP-USD exchange rate continue to weaken throughout the year.<\/p>\n

In early 2017, signs are that UK stocks of US hardwood are now quite high and this speculative trend may have run its course. There is some expectation now that the rise in US share of UK sawn hardwood imports peaked last year and will fall in 2017 as the higher prices begin to eat into UK consumption of US hardwoods.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to statistics shown at the TTF conference, tropical share of UK sawn hardwood imports was around 30% in 2016, a significant recovery from only around 28% in 2015, but down from levels closer to 40% a decade ago.<\/p>\n

As in the UK\u2019s temperate hardwood sector, the UK market for tropical wood is now concentrated in a very limited range of species. Sapele from Cameroon and Congo Republic and meranti from Malaysia are overwhelmingly dominant. These species are stocked as utility woods to supply the UK joinery sector.<\/p>\n

UK sawn hardwood imports from Cameroon were 23000 cu.m in 2016, a slight increase from 21,000 cu.m in 2015, but well below levels in excess of 30,000 cu.m in each of the years between 2010 and 2014.<\/p>\n

UK imports of sawn hardwood from the Republic of Congo doubled last year from 7000 cu.m to 14000 cu.m. This follows investment in sawmilling capacity and availability of FSC certified product from two large operators in Congo Republic. A very large proportion of the around 10,000 cu.m of tropical wood the UK imports indirectly by way of the Netherlands is also derived from African countries.<\/p>\n

Due to scarcity of hardwood kilning capacity in both Africa and the UK, a lot of African wood is dried in the Netherlands before being re-exported to the UK.<\/p>\n

The UK imported 22,000 cu.m of tropical sawn hardwood from Malaysia in 2016, 7% more than the previous year but still less than half the volume prevailing before the financial crises.<\/p>\n

This forms part of a larger trend as Malaysia has reduced focus on European markets for rough sawn hardwood in favour of emerging markets and more value-added products such as laminated veneer lumber, doors and furniture.<\/p>\n

Importers at the TTF conference commented that other tropical hardwoods which were formerly popular in the UK are now rarely imported, in some cases due to substitution by cheaper more readily available alternatives (such as bangkirai decking widely replaced by wood plastic composites and ayous mouldings replaced by wrapped MDF), in others due more to EUTR conformance concerns (such as framire from Ivory Coast).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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