{"id":76442,"date":"2018-09-24T10:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/trends-current-developments-german-sawmill-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:49:01","slug":"trends-current-developments-german-sawmill-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/trends-current-developments-german-sawmill-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends and current developments of the German sawmill industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German sawmill industry closed 2017 with a positive result. Above all the good 4th quarter dominated the annual result decisively. The overall economic environment continued to improve in 2017: gross domestic product (GDP) amounted to + 0.6 % in the fourth quarter (+ 0.9 % in the first quarter, + 0.6 % in the second quarter and + 0.7 % in the third quarter). Looking at 2017 as a whole, GDP grew by + 2.5 % over the previous year and was therefore higher than previously forecast. Europe also showed an improvement in the economy, which means that there is growth impulses from Germany and abroad.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Softwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Germany, demand for sawn timber from all important customer segments increased - the strongest growth was recorded in the fourth quarter. However, the development is strongly dominated by the revival of exports. Exports within Europe have risen slightly, while long-distance exports have risen strongly.<\/p>\n

Domestic sales, like unit sales within the euro zone, were comparatively moderate at + 2.7 % and by far less dynamic than distance sales.<\/p>\n

The increase in employment is remarkable. The number of employees rose by + 3.2 % in 2017 as a whole and by 4.4 % at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The export of sawn softwood companies has been greatly expanded in 2017. While deliveries within Europe developed very differently, i.e. were predominantly higher, Austria, the most important export partner, imported a little less in 2017.<\/p>\n

Distance sales increased strongly, especially to India and the USA. By contrast, deliveries to the Levant region were down on the previous year.<\/p>\n

The balance for the softwood sawn timber market in 2017 will show a significant increase in sawn\u00a0\"\"<\/a>softwood production to 22 million m3 , an increase of 4 % over the previous year, with an above-average increase in planed timber production.<\/p>\n

With imports remaining largely constant at approx. 5.0 million m3 , exports with an expected 7.8 million m3 (plus 7.3 %) made the significant increase in domestic production possible. In 2017, domestic consumption increased by only just over 2% to 19.1 million m3 and thus by approx. 500 thousand m3.<\/p>\n

Raw wood market affected by storms<\/strong><\/p>\n

The raw wood market was affected by several storms (most recently the hurricane Friederike with approx. 8 million m3 of damaged timber). Processing, cutting and advancing are difficult due to soaked forest soils and have even been stopped in some cases. The persistently wet and barely passable forest soils became a real problem when supplying the sawmills.<\/p>\n

The amount of damaged wood from the storms is taken up by the sawmill industry. In regional terms, there were slight quality-related price declines due to the volumes of storm timber, but at the same time this also entailed additional expenses for scheduling and cutting. This results in only marginal relief for the regionally affected farms.<\/p>\n

Profit situation improved, but strongly increasing demands of customers<\/p>\n

With increased production, a good export situation and little change in the raw materials\/revenues situation, earnings improved slightly overall.<\/p>\n

Further strongly increasing requirements come from the customers. The sawmill industry reacts with qualitative improvements and new or further developed products. The German sawmill industry benefits from the fact that the broad structure of the industry and the large product range can handle the differentiated demand in Germany.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Germany continues to be the largest consumer market for sawn softwood in Europe. This and the high standard of German companies is also a plus in exports - this is particularly important for a country that is one of the countries with the highest raw material costs worldwide.<\/p>\n

The industry is now highly diversified, many companies are increasingly going into further processing, product refinement and are focusing on further developed products such as laminated timber and cross laminated timber. It also fulfills the increasing requirements of other customers such as packaging and pallets.<\/p>\n

Residential construction was somewhat weaker again in 2017, but is characterised by high standards in timber construction with increasing market shares. This is strengthening sales to the construction sector.<\/p>\n

Value added is increasing and has a positive effect on the development of the number of employees.<\/p>\n

Outlook: Overall, a continued good overall economic development is expected for 2018 in Germany, but also in Europe. Activity in the construction sector, the most important customer of the sawmill industry, is expected to increase slightly. Significant impulses are expected from the packaging sector, especially for export packaging. Hopes are based on continued stable exports to Europe and an improvement in the Levant region. Special expectations are for exports to Asia, possibly the USA could also be a very interesting market again.<\/p>\n

Hardwood<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hardwood market continues to develop steadily at a fixed level. Beech continues to have a stable\u00a0\"\"<\/a>domestic market. In particular, the export sector was able to achieve a significant increase in distance sales in 2017. China, by far the most important customer, again purchased significantly more beech in 2017.<\/p>\n

The market for oak is again lively across all qualities and product ranges. Ash is currently still available in sufficient quantities, also from the necessary earlier uses caused by the ash dieback. There is a concern that in the following years considerably less ash will come onto the market.<\/p>\n

Due to the stable market trend and the good export situation, the production of hardwood lumber could be slightly expanded to 1.1 million m3 in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Continuing concern for hardwood sawmillers is the tendency in oak to increasingly offer the logs by submission.<\/p>\n

This removes the raw material from the traditionally regionally supplying sawmillers with knowledge of the regional qualities and growth characteristics.<\/p>\n

In beech, exports of raw beech wood again rose strongly.<\/p>\n

Almost 800,000 cubic metres of beech logs were exported in 2017. In the meantime, a considerable proportion of the beech harvest is exported, often to distant countries. This raw material is no longer available to the domestic sawmill industry.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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