{"id":78892,"date":"2020-03-16T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/coronavirus-chinese-timber-market-faces-severe-demand-shrinkage-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:52:51","slug":"coronavirus-chinese-timber-market-faces-severe-demand-shrinkage-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/coronavirus-chinese-timber-market-faces-severe-demand-shrinkage-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Chinese timber market faces severe demand shrinkage this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>The Chinese timber market, which was forced to extend holidays due to the coronavirus outbreak, officially resumed work and production last week. According to conservative estimates by industry insiders, by February 29, it is expected that the rate of resumption of production and operation of wood and wood product manufacturing Chinese enterprises has reached more than 70%.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, Chinese timber operators seem to be more concerned about the trend of the timber market after the epidemic. Although the new coronavirus had a relatively small direct impact on the Chinese timber industry compared to the transportation, tourism, retail, accommodation and catering industries, the delay in timber production and operations due to epidemic control measures has still affected activities.<span id=\"more-22585\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Take wood sales for example. According to industry estimates, the timber sales performance in the first quarter of 2020 will decline sharply year-on-year. Among them, there are not a few timber merchants who have achieved \"zero\" timber sales performance in February! Faced with this situation, although many market participants believe that the epidemic is only a \"lag in demand\" for the Chinese timber industry, it cannot be ignored that the Chinese timber market will face a more severe structural market demand shrinkage in 2020. Overlaying downward demand and epidemic pressure will cause some companies with weak capital strength to face unprecedented tests.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Chinese reporters, Guangdong timber business operators stated that in the long run, under the stimulation of strong domestic demand, China's furniture consumption still has sufficient toughness and huge potential, but in the short-term market, it is subject to structural demand adjustments. Chinese furniture companies will face tremendous operating pressure, especially the traditional mahogany furniture operators, where the market impact is greater. This will also bring a huge crisis to the suppliers of raw materials.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 coronavirus outbreak will make the Chinese wood industry, which already has many problems, face a more complex and volatile market environment. This year's Chinese wood market is likely to be \u201ceasy to make money'' everyone has to do more hard work to achieve positive results. However, unlike the pessimistic expectations of the market for the whole year, some market participants estimate that the huge rigid demand released by the Chinese timber market after the epidemic is likely to drive the market out of the short-term crisis after the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This is mainly because the current downstream furniture companies' reserves of raw materials are mostly \u201czero inventories\u201d. After the epidemic, as the Chinese furniture companies resume work and production, the stagnant market demand will be decompressed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese timber market, which was forced to extend holidays due to the coronavirus outbreak, officially resumed work and production last week. According to conservative estimates by industry insiders, by February 29, it is expected that the rate of resumption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/coronavirus-chinese-timber-market-faces-severe-demand-shrinkage-this-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4713,4716,4715,4714],"tags":[3254,4292,3384,3351,3264],"class_list":["post-78892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies-in-the-timber-industry","category-latest-trends","category-market-analysis","category-wood-industry-prices","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-demand","tag-market","tag-timber","topic-forestry","topic-pulp-paper","topic-sawmilling","topic-wood-construction","topic-wood-furniture","topic-wood-based-panels","topic-woodworking-machinery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coronavirus: Chinese timber market faces severe demand shrinkage this year - Timber Industry News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/coronavirus-chinese-timber-market-faces-severe-demand-shrinkage-this-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ro_RO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coronavirus: Chinese timber market faces severe demand shrinkage this year - Timber Industry News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chinese timber market, which was forced to extend holidays due to the coronavirus outbreak, officially resumed work and production last week. 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