{"id":86954,"date":"2023-11-02T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/swedish-sawmills-have-diversified-their-export-markets-over-the-past-few-years\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:01:01","slug":"swedish-sawmills-have-diversified-their-export-markets-over-the-past-few-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/swedish-sawmills-have-diversified-their-export-markets-over-the-past-few-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish sawmills have diversified their export markets over the past few years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lumber trade has become more global over\u00a0the past few decades with an increased flow\u00a0of wood products from forest-rich countries to\u00a0regions lacking domestic forests to supply the\u00a0local markets. One good example is Sweden,\u00a0where lumber manufacturers in recent years\u00a0have expanded their sales far outside the\u00a0markets they supplied in the past. Fifteen years\u00a0ago, almost 80% of the country\u2019s lumber export\u00a0volume was shipped to markets in Europe. That\u00a0share has declined to about 55% in the past\u00a0years (see chart).<\/p>\n

\"\"The biggest decline in market shares has\u00a0been in the MENA region, which fell from 28%\u00a0to 20% over the past ten years. During the\u00a0same period, the US market has increased in\u00a0importance, with the share rising from about\u00a01% in 2013 to over 9% in 2Q\/23. This has been\u00a0a positive development for many Swedish\u00a0sawmills since the prices for lumber destined\u00a0for the US are substantially higher than for\u00a0wood sold to countries in Northern Africa and\u00a0the Middle East. In the 2Q\/23, the average\u00a0export price for the US was almost 45% higher\u00a0than for lumber exported to Egypt, the largest\u00a0market in the MENA region.\u00a0Sweden exported 10% more lumber in the\u00a0first half of 2023 than during the same period\u00a0in 2022, and in 2023 is on track to be a record\u00a0year in shipments. The biggest increases\u00a0y-o-y were seen in sales to MENA followed\u00a0by Europe, while export volumes to the US\u00a0and Asia fell by 8% and 3%, respectively.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0strongest improvements to the top-10 markets\u00a0this year have been to China (+59% y-o-y),\u00a0the Netherlands (+49%), Egypt (+36%), France\u00a0(+17%), and the UK (+15%).\u00a0There is much uncertainty in worldwide demand\u00a0for lumber in the 2H\/23. However, there are\u00a0signals of upward movements in prices in\u00a0the US market because of tighter supply and\u00a0slightly higher demand, which could be good\u00a0news for Swedish lumber exporters. During\u00a0the first six months of 2023, the US total import\u00a0volume was just over 17 million m3, the lowest\u00a0half-year import volume since the 1H\/20.\u00a0Sweden\u2019s share of this market has increased\u00a0from 1.9% in the 1H\/21 to 3.3% in the 1H\/23. In\u00a02023, the leading European exporters to the US\u00a0were Germany (52% of the European supply),\u00a0Sweden (22%), Austria (7%), Romania (7%), and\u00a0the Czech Republic (3%). With the log supply\u00a0tightening in Central Europe, exports from this\u00a0region will likely decline in the coming yea<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lumber trade has become more global over\u00a0the past few decades with an increased flow\u00a0of wood products from forest-rich countries to\u00a0regions lacking domestic forests to supply the\u00a0local markets. 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