Trade of energywood, 2nd quarter 2020

• Almost three fifths of the wood purchased as raw material for forest chips was pruned stems in the second quarter of 2020.
• This was the most valuable type of energywood as the average price paid for it was EUR 4.1 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 26.6 in delivery sales. In standing sales the price decreased by 20 per cent and in delivery sales it rose by two per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• Share of logging residues was more than one third of energywood sales.
• The average price paid for it was EUR 3.8 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 17.6 in delivery sales. In standing sales the unit price of logging residues increased by 13 per cent and in delivery sales the price went down by one per cent compared to the previous quarter.
• Trade of energywood pick up as usual in the second quarter of the year. The amount of energywood included in the statistics increased by half compared with the corresponding period of last year but was almost the average of earlier three-year period.

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.