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Timber prices in Estonia have started to rapidly falling, from their spring-time high.<\/em><\/p>\n

The situation is described by industry insiders as serious and likely to impact the entire forestry sector. A cooling of the global economy and widespread damage caused by the bark beetle in Central Europe are impacting the Estonian forest industry.<\/p>\n

Martin Arula, CEO of Toftan, one of the largest sawmills in the Baltic States and based in V\u00f5ru County, said the current situation on the timber market was comparable with the crash in prices that happened 2007-2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The global economic downturn is still very clear,\" Arula said, speaking on Estonian television recently.<\/p>\n

\"We have seen price falls of up to 60 percent in the various international export markets, compared with nine months ago. Within the Estonian market, wood product prices have fallen a bit less than this - we're talking about 20-25 percent - but this shouldn't be taken as an indicator that we are somehow isolated from the rest of the world, leaving us to remain on some sort of higher level,\" said Arula.<\/p>\n

Price falls in Estonian pulpwood and firewood have been higher, at up to 40 percent, even though sawmills are calling it a normalization of the market.<\/p>\n

\"These [higher] prices, which were the case almost a year ago, were somewhat 'utopian', and were partly the result of the wet autumn of 2017,\" said J\u00fcrgen Ainsalu, CEO of timber products firm AS Barrus.<\/p>\n

\"Since then, pulpwood producers in Scandinavia started to decline while market demand remained high, which led to a price rally in the Baltics,\" he went on.<\/p>\n

Issues with forest fires and the bark beetle, in Central Europe, an effect which has been felt in Estonia too, and have had a strong impact on buying prices.<\/p>\n

\"Damaged spruce timber has been available [on European markets] for less than \u20ac30 per cubic meter, whereas we can't afford to go lower than \u20ac60 per cubic meter,\" Arula went on.<\/p>\n

\"The current glut, combined with the cool economic downturn, is still really serious,\" he added.<\/p>\n

The knock-on effect to the sector as a whole will be significant, larger sawmills say, though there has been no talk of lay-offs or downsizing yet.<\/p>\n

Forestry spokespersons note that private forest owners need to plan seriously their forest management right now, however.<\/p>\n

\"If a forest owner has nowhere to sell their timber, or it is no longer profitable, many forests will still be left without being managed,\" said Erki Sok, CEO of the V\u00f5ru County forestry association.<\/p>\n

\"This will affect everyone, be they timber fellers or exporters,\" Sok went on.<\/p>\n

Estonian forest cover amounts to around 2 million hectares, about 50 percent of the country's land area. Of this forest cover, about half is state-owned and managed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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