The Biggest Declines Of Wood Costs In Brazil, Russia, Australia And Europe

Prices for wood chips and pulplogs in both local currencies and in US dollars fell in most of the 17 regions tracked by the Wood Resource Quarterly. Uncertainty in demand for pulp, lower pulp and paper prices, reduced market pulp production and a healthy supply of sawmill residuals were all factors that put downward pressure on wood fiber prices this spring and early summer. The Softwood Wood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) fell by 4.1 percent from the 1Q/12 to $100.54 per oven-dry ton (odmt).

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