{"id":81087,"date":"2021-08-23T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/swiss-roundwood-prices-remain-low-despite-boom-lumber\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:55:57","slug":"swiss-roundwood-prices-remain-low-despite-boom-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/swiss-roundwood-prices-remain-low-despite-boom-lumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss roundwood prices remain low despite boom in lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swiss wood market has been out of joint for months.\u00a0Above all, the prices for lumber have practically exploded due to the high demand from the USA and China.\u00a0Hardly any of this has reached Swiss forest owners.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

From spring 2020 to May 2021, the price of lumber only knew one direction: upwards.\u00a0If you paid 250 US dollars for one cubic meter of lumber on the US commodity exchange CME in April and May 2020, the price quadrupled to around 1000 US dollars in the five months that followed.\u00a0Then in May of this year it peaked at approximately $ 1,750 per cubic meter.\u00a0After that, however, things went back down significantly.<\/p>\n

Different triggers for explosion\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were various triggers for the sharp rise. Projects were postponed in the course of the first wave of pandemics in 2020, so that the housing demand began to discharge as the restrictions eased. Construction activity picked up massively in EU countries, China and the USA.<\/p>\n

All of this was not without consequences for Switzerland.\u00a0Lumber is usually imported from abroad because it is simply cheaper.\u00a0Swiss wood is more expensive than imported wood because of the higher labor costs and sustainable forestry.\u00a0In addition, some products are simply not made in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The domestic wood suppliers moved back into focus and became competitive.\u00a0\u201cAll of a sudden, those who normally bought cheaper wood from abroad weren't getting any more.\u00a0And so the call for Swiss wood suddenly became very loud, \u201dsaid Florian Landolt from the Swiss Forest Association in an interview with the AWP news agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demand for local wood is benefiting from the price distortions that we have seen for lumber in recent months,\u201d said Urs Luginb\u00fchl from the Swiss Wood Industry Association.<\/p>\n

Short domestic supply chains<\/strong><\/p>\n

It wasn't just about the price, which was suddenly competitive, but also about the supply chains, which are simply shorter with domestic providers.\u00a0In addition, prices in Switzerland have not risen as much as abroad, Luginb\u00fchl explained.\u00a0However, the offer is only limited.<\/p>\n

\"From 2007 to 2020, the prices of lumber fell steadily,\" said the association's spokesman.\u00a0For him, this has in particular to do with the appreciation of the Swiss franc.\u00a0Importing wood from abroad was simply cheaper.\u00a0\"When the minimum exchange rate was lifted in 2015, it was a real shock for the local timber industry.\"\u00a0The value of the goods collapsed overnight.\u00a0The result was that many companies had to close or cut their production significantly.<\/p>\n

Forest owners hardly notice the hype\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is often left out of the discussion about the price explosion for lumber, however, is the price of roundwood. As Mr. Landolt from the Swiss Forest Association emphasizes, the forest owners hardly received any of the hype. Rather, they have been struggling with ever-falling prices since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

''The price increases have only reached a small part ofh the forest owners.\u00a0Most of it took place in the context of the value chain, \u201demphasized the expert.<\/p>\n

As the latest data from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) shows, the timber business in Switzerland is anything but positive.\u00a0Rather, the Swiss forest companies showed a deficit last year.\u00a0Landolt says: \"Many businesses are losing because the price of roundwood is at a record low level.\"<\/p>\n

Landolt assumes that the demand for wood will remain high because it is essential as a sustainable building material and the political will to use it is great.\u00a0Luginb\u00fchl welcomes the increased competitiveness of Swiss wood processors and the greater demand for Swiss wood, but is nevertheless a little more cautious.\u00a0Local producers will only be able to expand their capacities again when the price increases have proven to be sustainable.<\/p>\n

However, this seems more than questionable.\u00a0Since the price peaked in May, an unprecedented slide has set in, bringing the price back to a level of below 500 US dollars most recently.\u00a0At the same time, the prices for roundwood have risen somewhat recently, but still remain at a historically low level.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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