{"id":76395,"date":"2018-09-18T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T10:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/outlook-of-the-swedish-sawmill-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:48:58","slug":"outlook-of-the-swedish-sawmill-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/outlook-of-the-swedish-sawmill-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook of the Swedish sawmill industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweden is the largest softwood exporter in Europe. 13 million cubic meters are exported of which 8 million cubic meters are shipped to Europe and 5 million cubic meters to markets outside Europe. Thus, the Swedish sawmills are highly dependent not only on the European but also on the global softwood markets. After ten years of recovery the global consumption of softwood is back on all-time high.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, the USA softwood market is by far largest contributor to the global increase in wood consumption, followed by China. European consumption is growing at a much lower but steady pace. The consumption in USA and Europe is driven mainly by increasing building activities, while the Chinese market is also driven to a high degree by growth in the furniture segment.<\/p>\n

A continued good development on the two largest markets in the world - USA and China - will be crucial for how the softwood market - and thus the situation for Swedish sawmills - will develop during the coming year.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Swedish softwood production 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the improving market conditions throughout last year Swedish softwood production remained practically unchanged at 18.06 million cubic meters.<\/p>\n

This year has started with relatively low production. During the first quarter the production decreased by five (prel) per cent compared with the same period last year. The weather conditions and shortages in transport capacity have contributed to lower production than anticipated.<\/p>\n

Because of low production and high demand, the stocks of softwood at sawmills have decreased to very low levels. The low production volumes during the first quarter means that the production will hardly increase during the whole year 2018. Our preliminary forecast is that the production will remain unchanged. This means that the Swedish production also this year will increase less than the global demand and that the level of production will still be well below the record from 2006. In 2006 the raw material supply was impacted by massive volumes of wind blown trees.<\/p>\n

Exports 2017: Continued increase to East Asian markets, decrease to MENA<\/strong><\/p>\n

The table below shows the shipments from Swedish sawmills to different markets last year. The total export volume was 13.1 million cubic meters which was one per cent more than in 2016.<\/p>\n

The export to United Kingdom, the largest export market, decreased slightly during 2017. The demand of Swedish softwood in UK remains healthy, even though the future has become somewhat more uncertain because of Brexit.<\/p>\n

The European \u201cquartet\u201d Germany, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands are all important markets for\u00a0Swedish sawmills. All of them receive each year close to one million cubic meter of Swedish wood. These markets are all favoured by relatively healthy consumption growth driven by increasing construction activities.<\/p>\n

Poland is the European market with the highest growth in exports from Sweden. Last year the increase amounted to 28 per cent.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Exports to the North African and Middle East region (mainly redwood markets for the Swedish sawmills) continued to decrease during last year. Algeria recorded the largest decline, with 45 per cent lower shipments. Other big markets for Swedish softwood such as Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen all decreased in volume. On the other hand, exports to the largest African market Egypt increased by 13 per cent, after two years with declining volumes.<\/p>\n

The East Asian markets are increasing, last year by 14 per cent. China, in particular, has had a fantastic development during the last six years, even though the volumes started to level out last year. Sweden is mainly exporting whitewood to the Chinese furniture industry.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Softwood exports to the USA increased last year by 65 percent and reached 404.000 cubic meters. That is the highest exported volume from Sweden to USA since 2006.<\/p>\n

With a softwood consumption of 5.6 million cubic meters Sweden is the single largest market for the Swedish sawmills. Demand is driven by strong housing activity. Housing starts climbed last year to their highest level since the early nineties (even though most of the increase in building activity has been on flats) and reached 69.000 units. The repair and maintenance activity remains on a stable level.<\/p>\n

It seems like a peak in construction was reached last year, and the activity is now decreasing slightly from a high level.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the share of multi storey houses built with wood is now increasing. For example, a number of investments in CLT-production is now under way in Sweden.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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