{"id":76635,"date":"2018-11-01T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T09:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/trends-european-furniture-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:49:17","slug":"trends-european-furniture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/trends-european-furniture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in the European furniture sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) released their Annual Market Review 2017-2018, together with several market statements by national governments in the UNECE region (which includes the sub-regions of Europe, North America and the CIS), in advance of their 76th session to be held in Vancouver on 5-9 November.<\/em><\/p>\n

The COFFI review also highlights several trends in the European furniture sector with significant potential to impact on European trade in both hardwoods and finished wood furniture products.<\/p>\n

The long-term shift in global furniture production away from the UNECE region to Asia, particularly China, is noted in response to lower production costs and rising demand in emerging markets. However, COFFI suggest this shift is now slowing \u201cdue to increased automation, demand by customers for shorter delivery times and increasing costs in previously low-cost regions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

COFFI also observe the large switch in European wood furniture production from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, particularly Poland and Lithuania, where manufacturers both of which are low cost manufacturers with easy access to the EU market.<\/p>\n

This last trend is obviously a blow to non-EU suppliers of wood furniture, who may struggle to compete with the emergence of a relatively low cost and highly automated furniture manufacturing sector in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

It is also problematic for external hardwood suppliers. The Eastern European furniture industry so far has been generally less inclined to utilise hardwoods imported from the tropics and other non-EU countries than the traditional industries of Western European countries like Italy, Spain and France.<\/p>\n

This is very clear from Polish wood furniture and timber production data reported by COFFI. Production of wood furniture in Poland, which increased 10% in 2017 to US$7.7 billion, depends almost entirely on European panel products and softwood.<\/p>\n

Poland imported only 300,000 cu.m of sawn hardwood in 2017 and nearly all consisted of oak and beech from neighbouring countries. Only 5% of sawn hardwoods imported into Poland in 2017 were tropical species.<\/p>\n

Another key trend, on-going for a long time but showing no signs of slowing, has been a shift away from traditional long-lasting hardwood furniture, which was viewed as a long- term investment, to low-cost \u201cflat-pack\u201d \u201csemidisposable\u201d furniture. People are moving more often, and many younger consumers like the flexibility that \u201ctemporary\u201d and affordable furniture provides.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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