{"id":75844,"date":"2018-06-12T10:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/sawmills-in-france-at-risk-because-of-higher-oak-logs-demand-from-china\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:48:18","slug":"sawmills-in-france-at-risk-because-of-higher-oak-logs-demand-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/sawmills-in-france-at-risk-because-of-higher-oak-logs-demand-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawmills in France at risk because of higher oak logs demand from China"},"content":{"rendered":"

China's increased demand for wood has made the oak logs exports from France to boom. Moreover, the larger demand has also made the prices soar.<\/em><\/p>\n

Commercial timber harvests have been banned in Beijing and the\u00a0Chinese millennials have developed a taste for high-quality wooden floors and furniture from Europe. Yet, the French higher exports might mean a bust for nearly 550 sawmills in the country.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters,\u00a0French oak producers have traditionally sold oak logs to the mills, which then cut them into lumber for making products ranging from floors and furniture to coffins and wine barrels.\u00a0But now, private forest owners have started selling logs directly to Chinese buyers because they are ready to pay higher prices and do the processing themselves.<\/p>\n

Thus, a lot of sawmills in France have ran out of\u00a0wood to process and are now\u00a0struggling to fulfill orders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is that oak has never been as expensive in France and we, the processors, have never had as little of it,<\/em>\u201d David Chavot, head of the Margaritelli Fontaines sawmill, said at the mill in eastern France.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, sawmills that have a great stock of oak will handle this issue, for the moment, but may encounter problems when trying to refill, because of the higher prices.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nicolas Douzain-Didier, head of France\u2019s National Forest Association (FNB), explained that smaller sawmills will mostly\u00a0lose customers and shed jobs.\u00a0\u201cThe most fragile will go under, one after another,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

About 26,000 jobs are directly linked to the oak industry in France, the world\u2019s third largest producer. By late March, about 80% of French sawmills had 30% less stock than they needed to fulfill orders.\u00a0France has tried to regulate the industry by imposing an \u201cEU label\u201d on logs coming from public forests, meaning they must be processed in the European Union. But French sawmills say there are ways to bypass the EU label system and want a similar label applied to privately owned forests, which account for nearly 80% of wooded areas in France, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

For oak growers, who usually cut trees when they are from 100 to 150 years old, the price rise is a welome rebound after a sharp fall in the late 2000s caused by low demand.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThey (the sawmills) need to live but so do we<\/em>,\u201d said Antoine d\u2019Amecourt, who led the private forest owners who attended the March meeting with farm minister St\u00e9phane Travert.\u00a0\u201cOwners prefer the wood to be processed in France but they need to regenerate forests for the next generations<\/em>,\u201d he said, explaining it made little difference where the oak is processed.<\/p>\n

CHINESE MILLENNIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to data from Chinese officials, the country is the world\u2019s largest timber importer and its needs are growing. Thus, as to\u00a0meet the booming demand, Chinese manufacturers have had to buy oak abroad since commercial timber harvests were banned to protect natural forests after decades of over-cutting.<\/p>\n

As reported by Reuters, In Foshan, a furniture trading hub in China\u2019s Guangdong province, traders say demand is propped up by young and affluent people who like European interior design.\u00a0Almost 90 percent of solid composite wooden floors in China are now made of oak, a sharp rise from the early 2000s, according to Chinese floor-maker Fudeli Flooring.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least 70 percent of our customers buying French oak floors are millennials born in the 80s and 90s<\/em>,\u201d said Chen Deyi, a local dealer for Fudeli Flooring.<\/p>\n

Hoping to cash in on the high demand, Hong Kong-based Four Seasons Furniture has launched a French oak furniture collection. A small side table made of French white oak costs 3,680 yuan ($576).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just recently started promoting French oak furniture inside China. It used to be more export-focused as appreciation for this type of wood was not as robust<\/em>,\u201d said Candy Zhu, a sales manager at the Louvre exhibition centre.<\/p>\n

French oak log exports to China rose 35 percent in the year to January 2018 and now account for 70 percent of all French oak log exports, according to FNB data.<\/p>\n

This makes France the second largest supplier of oak logs to China, ahead of Russia and behind the United States. Business is not expected to be affected by the current trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, industry experts say.<\/p>\n

Prices for some oak logs have doubled in France since 2009 while the prices of other species, such as beech and pine, have fallen over the same period.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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