Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Wood costs for pulp mills and sawmills in Brazil have fallen the past
year and are currently among the lowest in the world, reports the Wood
Resource...
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Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Wood costs for pulp mills and sawmills in Brazil have fallen the past
year and are currently among the lowest in the world, reports the Wood
Resource Quarterly
Pulp mills and sawmills in Brazil became more competitive in 2012, because the costs for
the wood raw-material, which accounts for about 70 percent of the production costs,
have declined by over 20 percent since 2011, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
Seattle, USA.
Pulp mills and sawmills in Brazil became more competitive in 2012
mostly thanks to a weakening Brazilian Real.
Pine sawlog prices in Brazil, in US dollar
terms, fell 22 percent in just one year, and prices in the 2Q/12 have been at a level below
where they were just before the financial crisis that hit in 2008, according to the Wood
Resource Quarterly (www.
woodprices.
com).
In the local currency on the other hand, prices have actually increased steadily and
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