Trade of energywood, 3rd quarter 2020

• Pruned stems covered half and logging residues two fifths of total trade of energywood purchased as raw material for forest chips in the third quarter of 2020.
• Pruned stems was the most valuable type of energywood as the average price paid for it was EUR 4.3 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 26.6 in delivery sales. In standing sales the price increased by seven per cent and in delivery sales the price remained the same compared to the previous quarter.
• The average price paid for logging residues was EUR 3.9 per cubic metre in standing sales and EUR 18.1 in delivery sales. These prices increased by three per cent compared to the previous quarter.

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.