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The market situation for German hardwoods was described at IHC by Steffen Rathke, Vice President of DeSH who said that both domestic and export market demand deteriorated in the second half of 2019, partly a response to responding to mounting economic uncertainty in Europe and China, the main export market.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Rathke also highlighted that raw material availability is becoming more challenging in the hardwood sector with pests and drought having an increasing impact. Mills are having to cut back on production of beech because of severe damage to logs during lengthy periods of drought in recent years. Although the freshly harvested beech logs often appear unblemished on the outside, the timber contains a lot of defect and the yield of higher-grade lumber is negligible.<\/p>\n

Referring to a previous period when the export market for European beech logs was severely undermined by shipment of a lot of low quality (in this instance stormthrown) beech, Mr. Rathke said that \u201cit is has taken 15 years to get the beech market back in China, but now again we are seeing more of these lower quality being sent to China and we could lose this market again\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr. Rathke also expressed concern about the possibility of a similar fate for oak with a rising incidence of worm holes, which cannot be detected when logs are inspected in the forest, also caused by drier conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur trees are under stress\u201d, concluded Mr Rathke, \u201cthe industry needs to do more to help forest owners, to bring out the dead wood out, to replant and re-establish the forest resource\u201d.<\/p>\n

A similar narrative emerged from a review of the wider market for European hardwoods delivered to IHC by Maria Kiefer-Polz, EOS Vice President for Hardwood.<\/p>\n

She emphasised the rising impact of drought, pest and disease increasing hardwood forest mortality and leading to rising proportion of logs of lower grade being placed on market and contributing in turn to a significant fall in prices for chips, sawdust and bark, undermining the profitability of hardwood sawmills.<\/span><\/p>\n

There has also been a decrease in demand and prices for packaging wood in parts of Europe due to a large increase in low grade softwood on the market following a major bark beetle infestation.<\/p>\n

Ms. Kiefer-Polz said that the pressure on supply of European oak eased during 2019 in response to cooling demand both in Asia and Europe. Although prices for higher grades of European oak logs had remained reasonably stable, prices for lower quality oak logs were down around 15% during the year. Longer term supply problems are expected with rising oak mortality in the face of drought.<\/p>\n

European beech prices were also easing in 2019, with log prices down around 15% due to lower log exports, particularly to China. Demand for beech sawnwood is also slowing in China. French beech sawmills are suffering from falling prices in the context of rising raw material availability and declining export demand.<\/p>\n

Drought has meant there are now 700,000 m3 of dead beech trees in Eastern France.<\/p>\n

European ash log prices have remained high, benefitting for some extent from this species popularity as a cheaper alternative to oak. There has been particularly strong demand for French ash logs in Viet Nam.<\/p>\n

However, ash dieback is now hitting the European ash resource hard and led to a rise in production which is expected to be short-lived.<\/p>\n

In Romania, according to Ms. Kiefer-Polz, there has been falling export demand in China, North Africa and the Middle East, traditionally the major markets for Romanian sawn hardwood. Romania\u2019s domestic furniture industry is also declining and consuming less hardwood, while Romania\u2019s imports of furniture are rising.<\/p>\n

Prices for Romanian sawn hardwood are falling and warehouse stocks were rising in the second half of 2019. Romanian sawn hardwood production is being curtailed and is expected to be down up to 15% overall in 2019.<\/p>\n

The whole wood sector in Romania is suffering from lack of access to finance and low levels of investment.<\/p>\n

The market situation of European hardwoods is made more challenging by lack of reliable data on the resource and understanding of the changing resource dynamics as the climate changes. This issue was highlighted at IHC in a presentation by Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Professor at the Wageningen University and lead scientist for European forests.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, given the long tradition of systematic forest management in Europe and widespread perception of a stable well-managed resource, Professor Nabuurs commented that \u201cWe know very little about hardwood stocks, increment, and diameters [in Europe]. Data gathering needs to improve. EU member states are not sufficiently open with national forest inventory data and inventory methodologies are inconsistent between countries\u201d.<\/p>\n

This in turn had contributed to a situation where \u201cthe hardwood processing sector is not ready for the challenges coming at us; climate change, matching regional demandsupply, and fragmented ownership. The hardwood sector needs much stronger collaboration between forest owners and industry and much greater investment in forest resources\u201d.<\/p>\n

On the changing composition of the European hardwood forest, Professor Nabuurs suggested that \u201cthere will be more beech, but even this species is suffering. We hardly know how fast the ash decline is taking place. Overall there are some indications that we are eating up quality [hardwood] stocks\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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