Trade of energywood, 1st quarter 2021

• In the first quarter of 2021, 45 per cent of the wood purchased as raw material for forest chips was pruned stems. The average price paid for it was EUR 5.1 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 28.1 in delivery sales. In standing sales, the price was down by four per cent and in delivery sales it was up by four per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• Portion of logging residues was almost as large. The price paid for logging residues was EUR 4.6 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 15.5 in delivery sales. The average price increased by nine per cent from the previous quarter in standing sales and decreased by 12 per cent in delivery sales.
• As usual, there was a considerable regional variation in the price of energywood assortments.
• The amount of energywood included in the statistics declined by one third compared to the previous quarter. The trade grew by two-fifths year-on-year in January-March and was 13 per cent higher than the previous three-year average.

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.