{"id":81387,"date":"2021-10-25T04:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/germany-lumber-available-prices-going\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:56:21","slug":"germany-lumber-available-prices-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/germany-lumber-available-prices-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Lumber available again; are prices going down too?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The high price of wood in spring and summer 2021 took everyone by surprise - home builders, craftsmen and manufacturers of wood building materials.\u00a0In the meantime, lumber is at least more readily available again.\u00a0So is the price going down too?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Lumber and products such as wood-based insulation were poorly or not at all available throughout this year in Germany.\u00a0This also led to the fact that construction sites threatened to stop or house builders voluntarily took a break to wait and see how expensive it would be.\u00a0However, according to Holzbau Germany, the great panic with reports of massive short-time work and company bankruptcies has not yet been reflected in reality.<\/p>\n

However, companies in the sector have suffered from the rising wood prices.\u00a0\"Most of the time, contracts with clients have been signed so long in advance that the high prices could not be passed on,\"\u00a0says Rainer Kabelitz-Cir\u00e9, managing director of the timber construction group in Germany.\u00a0The specialist group belongs to the Central Association of the German Building Industry ( ZDB).\u00a0The companies have earned less and are now happy that there are currently no signs of further price increases of this magnitude.\u00a0This reflects the mood that the trade association receives from practice.\u00a0A broad industry survey did not take place.<\/p>\n

\"It is undisputed that there was\u00a0a raw material\u00a0problem\u00a0in the first half of 2021.\u00a0But the shortage of wood was embedded in the general lack of building materials,\" explains Kabelitz-Cir\u00e9 about the situation in summer.\u00a0This shortage had its reasons and aftermath, especially in the pandemic and the strong demand from abroad.\u00a0Delivery bottlenecks from the Far East, since container ships were not allowed to cross the oceans or were only allowed to cross them with delay, were particularly evident in the case of plastic products and some special types of wood, which are primarily used in furniture construction by carpenters and in interior work by carpenters.<\/p>\n

Regional lumber influenced the shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0wood for carpentry and classic timber construction\u00a0is a\u00a0regional building product\u00a0in Germany.\u00a0Nevertheless, strong demand from abroad has also pushed prices up in this country.\u00a0A high demand from China, shortages in the USA and also from Russia had an influence, according to information from Holzbau Germany.\u00a0\"Not just one reason, but many different things together were decisive for the price increase. But no one can provide a one hundred percent explanation,\" said the managing director.\u00a0There would also have been problems with the sawmills, which had reached their capacity limits.\u00a0Wood was literally accumulating here that many were waiting for.\u00a0There was also a kind of chain reaction to the surprisingly strong climbs.\u00a0Some companies panicked and filled their warehouses.\u00a0That has exacerbated the shortage and pushed the price further.<\/p>\n

After the big price shock, however, the market has been easing for a few weeks now.\u00a0The increase has slowed down and Holzbau Germany is currently saying that\u00a0prices will probably settle at this level for the time being.\u00a0\"But timber is readily available again,\"\u00a0confirms Kabelitz-Cir\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Availability of timber: difficult data situation<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Holzbau Deutschland, the fact that figures such as those from the Federal Statistical Office on timber prices are still interpreted dramatically in current reports is due to the fact that they always reflect values \u200b\u200bfrom the past few months and\u00a0do not\u00a0provide up-to-\u00a0date\u00a0data\u00a0.\u00a0In addition, producer prices for the wood are usually an issue instead of trading prices.\u00a0However, retail prices vary greatly from region to region as well as in the various contracts that timber construction companies make with their suppliers.\u00a0They are not always affected by the same increase in proportion as producer prices on average.<\/p>\n

In addition, you have to see that the German construction industry is on the upswing as a whole.\u00a0If you build a lot, you need and use a lot of building materials.\u00a0\"Here normal market mechanisms come into play.\u00a0Supply and demand determine the prices,\u00a0\" says the managing director, who is himself a carpenter and civil engineer.\u00a0In his opinion, the construction industry has come through the Corona crisis well compared to others.\u00a0The drivers of the currently high construction prices are often the very high real estate and land prices and not primarily the prices for building materials.<\/p>\n

Germany has a bonus here because it has a lot of forest itself and thus also potential construction timber.\u00a0So-called calamity wood is increasingly being made usable - wood that is produced by storm damage, drought or pest infestation.\u00a0The\u00a0bark beetle infestation\u00a0has played a large part in this\u00a0in many spruce forests\u00a0in recent years.\u00a0The decisive factors were the dry and hot summers up to 2020.\u00a0\u00a0\"If you cut the trees in good time and then store them wet, you can still use the infected trees without any problems,\" explains Kabelitz-Cir\u00e9.\u00a0However, there are already capacity problems with the necessary wet storage facilities.<\/p>\n

Construction timber and waste wood: Recycle in a way that conserves resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holzbau Deutschland advocates this in view of the high prices and, so to speak, as a precaution that the use of wood should also be organized more in the direction of resource conservation . \"For climate protection, it is particularly important that we act in a way that conserves resources and does not waste wood, for example by using fresh wood instead of mainly waste wood for energy,\" the managing director gives as an example.<\/p>\n

In order to stop the competition for construction timber and to be able to really use it regionally as a domestic raw material, a discussion about an export ban has already arisen several times . Holzbau Germany thinks little of this proposal. The federal government is also currently rejecting restrictions. Peter Aicher, the chairman of Holzbau Deutschland, sees no chance of interfering with the free trade that is applicable under EU law. \"Anyone who gets more on the world market than their home market can and will continue to export,\" he said recently in an interview with Manager Magazin. Nevertheless, he points out that the ecological footprint of the regional raw material wood is worsened by export.<\/p>\n

Construction timber: climate neutral compared to other building materials<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"We are talking more and more about ecology and sustainability and then transport wood over thousands of kilometers instead of using it where it grew,\" explains Peter Aicher.\u00a0The demand in this country is there.\u00a0The wood is also chemically treated for transport.\u00a0Wood as a building material is actually the key resource to achieve the climate goals.\u00a0One reason is that wood has the property of\u00a0absorbing\u00a0CO\u00a02\u00a0from the atmosphere and storing the carbon from it.\u00a0This makes\u00a0construction timber climate-neutral in its manufacture compared to other building materials.<\/p>\n

This argument also increases the interest in wood among many builders. So far, however, a little more for single-family houses than for buildings for several parties. The Fachverband Holzbau still sees potential here, but also obstacles. \"In some state building codes, timber construction is still disadvantaged when it comes to multi-storey construction, \" explains Kabelitz-Cir\u00e9. In some places it should be stipulated that no flammable materials or only encapsulated materials may be used. \"We are in talks with the building supervisory authorities to create a level playing field here,\" reports the managing director.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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