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One of the more encouraging, not to say surprising, hardwood market trends in 2021 was a strong revival in demand in Italy, a country marked by an almost continuous decline in consumption in the previous decade and which suffered severely from the early effects of the COVID pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n

Italy experienced a large increase in hardwood consumption during 2021 as the construction and furniture manufacturing sectors were both growing strongly during the year. Prospects for continued consumption growth in 2022 also seem good, the main concerns now being on the supply side.<\/p>\n

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Italy's growth has been particularly boosted by Next Generation EU funding for post COVID-recovery, a large share of which has been allocated to the country. In total, EUR 224 billion of Next Generation EU funding has been assigned to Italy in the 2021-2026 period, with about 50% earmarked for construction.<\/p>\n

There is significant emphasis on projects that help the EU meet zero carbon goals in this funding package, including works to improve and rehabilitate older buildings to improve energy performance.<\/p>\n

The IHS Markit Italy Construction PMI climbed to a new series high of 68.5 in February 2022, the 13th straight monthly expansion. The PMI for residential construction has been increasing at a record rate in Italy. After a 6.6% contraction in 2020, Italian construction output is estimated to have increased by about 12% in 2021. Italy's wood furniture sector is also now expanding rapidly.<\/p>\n

According to figures drawn up by Centro Studi FederlegnoArredo, production turnover in Italy's wood furniture sector, including wood component manufacturers, was \u20ac49 billion, 26% more than in 2020 and up 14% compared to the pre-covid level in 2019. Italian wood furniture exports last year exceeded \u20ac18 billion, up 21% compared to 2020 and 7% more than in 2019.<\/p>\n

Wood furniture consumption in Italy's domestic market was up 29% compared to the previous year and 19% on the pre-covid level in 2019.<\/p>\n

According to FederlegnoArredo growth in Italy's domestic market is due to the \"effectiveness of tax breaks such as the 'bonus mobili' and the rediscovered centrality of the home in the lives of Italians\".<\/p>\n

Much of the new demand has come from the home furnishings and garden furniture sectors while the contract corporate and, particularly, the hospitality sectors have remained weak. Italy's large tourist sector has been hit heavily by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Istat data shows that in the first nine months of 2021 the number of guests in Italian hotels dropped by 44.3% while Assoaeroporti estimates that Italian air traffic in 2021 was still 59% down on the pre-pandemic level in 2019. On the strength of such evidence, FederlegnoArredo comment that \u201cthe contract sector will have to wait until at least 2023, if not 2024, to return to pre-covid levels.\"<\/p>\n

FederlegnoArredo also comment that, while the increase in domestic sales and exports during 2021 is encouraging and shows a return to pre-covid levels in Italy's wood furniture supply chain, \"the high cost of energy, shortage of raw materials, and rising logistics costs risk reversing the trend as early as the first months of 2022. And the war in Ukraine, with all its consequences, is worsening a situation that was already beginning to deteriorate\".<\/p>\n

While Italian wood supply is more diversified than many other countries, FederlegnoArredo note that Russia and Ukraine are critical suppliers of wood material to the Italian and wider European wood manufacturing sector, while Russia is also an important export market for highend Italian furniture, accounting for around \u20ac430m each year.<\/p>\n

FederlegnoArredo point out that the inevitable wood supply squeeze due to war in Ukraine comes on top of an already critical supply situation. Depending on species, wood prices in Italy increased by 130% to 280% between autumn 2020 and August 2021 and only declined slowly after that and for many products were still more than double pre-covid levels when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

The situation in Ukraine is creating particularly significant problems in the in the supply of birch logs and associated products, for which Russia is the world's largest producer.<\/p>\n

Lack of birch supply not only impacts on furniture and other wood manufacturing but has significant knock-on effects throughout European industry since birch is widely used for industrial packaging, trucking floors, floors and structural beams.<\/p>\n

The volumes involved are so large \u2013 together Russia, Belarus and Ukraine account for around 50% of all wood tonnage imported into the EU - that they cannot be readily replaced.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the critical supply situation, FederlegnoArredo President Claudio Feltrin notes that \"it is necessary and urgent to find alternative sources of supply, such as poplar or beech, possibly of national origin, accelerating the objectives and actions envisaged by the National Forest Strategy\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However the ability to increase domestic log harvests in Italy, as in many other parts of the EU, is constrained, at least in the short to medium term, by high levels of fragmentation in the forest sector. Although Italy is host to over 11 million hectares of forest (38% of national land area) and to a globally significant wood processing sector, around 80% of wood material supply to this sector is imported.<\/p>\n

Efforts are being made to mobilize more wood from Italy's domestic forests, for example a draft new Consolidated Forestry Law was published in 2018, and now awaits a series of implementing decrees, which aims to standardize and simplify forestry regulations across the country. But this can go only so far to improve wood supply in a country in which two thirds of forests are in the hands of tens of thousands of small forest owners, and which lacks a primary wood processing industry.<\/p>\n

According to Gian Paolo Potsios, managing partner for the European branch of the US management company Timberland Investment Resources, speaking to the Italian business journal Economia, \"Italy has one of the most important forest assets in Europe, in terms of quality and quantity. Unfortunately, with certain exceptions mostly in Northern Italy, it is a neglected heritage, managed in a confused way, with too many intermediaries, which constrain the sector, making it difficult and unappealing to exploit this resource.\"<\/p>\n

FederlegnoArredo has various initiatives in place to overcome these constraints. For example it is collaborating with Chambers of Commerce and other institutions to create an Italian wood exchange, a digital platform designed to bring together buyers and sellers of Italian wood. It is also working with universities and research bodies to ensure that the most common species in Italy (such as beech and chestnut) are certified as materials suitable for use in construction.<\/p>\n

But these projects will take time to significantly influence the supply situation. In the short term FederlegnoArredo is joining with other European wood manufacturing in calling for regulations to prevent the export of logs from the EU. Even this measure would only marginally improve the supply situation.<\/p>\n

FederlegnoArredo conclude their most recent market analysis with the gloomy observation that \"our companies could find themselves managing a situation in which they are unable to process orders due to the lack of raw materials while they are oppressed by the high cost of energy, which is already being reflected in the price lists of finished products\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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