Trade of energywood, 1st quarter 2020

• Half of the wood purchased as raw material for forest chips was pruned stems in the first quarter of 2020.
• This was the most valuable type of energywood; the average price paid for it was EUR 5.1 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 26.1 in delivery sales. In standing sales the price were up by 22 per cent and in delivery sales it rose by six per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• Share of logging residues was two fifths of energywood sales.
• The average price paid for it was EUR 3.4 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 17.7 in delivery sales. In standing sales the unit price of logging residues increased by 21 per cent and in delivery sales by one per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• There was a considerable regional variation in the price of energywood assortments.
• The amount of energywood included in the statistics declined almost by one fourth compared to the previous quarter. Compared with the corresponding period of last year it was down nearly one fifth.

Data of logging residues and total energywood in standing sales (2020/1 – 2020/3) has been revised February 11, 2021.

The recorded prices are based on prices entered in wood trade agreements. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics. The prices do not include government subsidies.

The information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland. This means that the published wood volumes represent only just over half of the energywood purchased from non-industrial private forests.