{"id":77532,"date":"2019-06-03T10:41:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/france-softwood-prices-drop-sharply-due-to-the-bark-beetle-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:50:51","slug":"france-softwood-prices-drop-sharply-due-to-the-bark-beetle-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/france-softwood-prices-drop-sharply-due-to-the-bark-beetle-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Softwood prices drop sharply due to the bark beetle crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the northern half of France, forest owners of spruce and fir are very concerned.\u00a0During an unusually mild winter, colonies of bark beetles have not disappeared.\u00a0Unless the summer is very rainy and without heat, the threat of a new outbreak is not to be discarded although the current spring is watered and mild.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the timber markets side, the situation is not very bright for eastern France foresters.\u00a0Christian Bulle, the president of Fransylva Franche-Comt\u00e9, advises the members of his union to avoid cuts of fresh wood to the maximum, log yards of sawmills being completely saturated.\u00a0
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Even at very low prices, Norway spruces and firs are hard to find, especially as many foresters have made precautionary cuts in forests not yet affected by the epidemic.<\/p>\n

In addition to the risk of cutting fresh wood today and cutting it dry in a few months, eastern France's loggers are facing another equally destabilizing problem.\u00a0In fact, the scheduled shutdown of the log supplies of the Burgo papermaking plant in Verzuolo (Italy), which is scheduled for next autumn, is a major change in the opening of the thinnings in much of northeastern France.\u00a0The transalpine industrial company announced that it was focusing on the production of cardboard boxes from recycled cardboard and pulp and that, as a result, virgin wood fiber from forests was no longer needed.<\/p>\n

In these conditions, the significant fall in the prices of fir-spruces (fresh wood) in unit volumes of less than 1 m3 is not surprising.\u00a0In contrast, spruce and fir trees of 2 m3 and + appear less affected by the bark beetle crisis.\u00a0If unsold inventories average 40%, prices remain stable for large diameter volumes (see table below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The bark beetle impacts the prices of small softwoods in Eastern France\u00a0<\/strong>
\nPrices of the fir trees in auctions
\nValues \u200b\u200bin \u20ac \/ m3 under bark<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Unit Volume<\/strong><\/td>\nQ2\/2017<\/strong><\/td>\nQ2\/2018<\/strong><\/td>\nQ2\/2019<\/strong><\/td>\nEvolution 2018\/2019<\/strong><\/td>\nEvolution 2017\/2019<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n48.20<\/td>\n51.70<\/td>\n41.3<\/td>\n-20%<\/td>\n-14.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1,5 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n50.75<\/td>\n52.75<\/td>\n45.5<\/td>\n-13.7%<\/td>\n-10.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n52,50<\/td>\n53.50<\/td>\n48.60<\/td>\n-9.2%<\/td>\n-7.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.5 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n53.80<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n-5.6%<\/td>\n-5.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n54,90<\/td>\n54,50<\/td>\n52.80<\/td>\n-3.1%<\/td>\n-3.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.5 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n55.90<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n54,50<\/td>\n-0.9%<\/td>\n-2.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 m3<\/strong><\/td>\n56.75<\/td>\n55.40<\/td>\n55.90<\/td>\n+ 0.9%<\/td>\n-1.5% <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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