During the fourth quarter of 2019, approximately 2.59 million m³ of sawn softwood was produced in Finland, which is 13,9% less than in the same quarter of the previous year. 

In the fourth quarter softwood lumber exports from Latvia to Great Britain dropped by 26% comparing to the same quarter of 2018 to 201,200m³. 

After declines of 4% and 6% in the first and second quarters of 2019, in the third quarter North American lumber production decreased by 5% comparing to 2018 to a total of 34.662m m³.

In September, the estimates from 15 German states on this year’s incidence of damaged wood and the still expected volumes of wood amount to 68.586m m³ among the whole range of tree species.

US furniture manufacturers in the residential sector in June were again unable to slow down the negative development in turnover and incoming orders, which has started in February.

Canadian pellet production is expected to rise by 6% to around 3.3 million tones for the current year.

Pellet production in the USA in the first quarter of 2019 reached 2.149m tones, around 17% more than in the same period of the preceding year.

The average price of the whole range of sawlogs assortments fell a little again in May 2019.

In March 2019 coniferous lumber production of Polish sawmills declined by 1% comparing to the same month of the previous year to 266,000m³.

An increasingly higher amount of damaged wood in Germany in 2018 led to a 20.3 % rise in timber felling to 64.362m m³ in comparison to 2017.