Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 1/2025

Roundwood trade continued to be brisk in January. Total purchases of industrial wood were one fifth higher than a year earlier and one third above the average for January of the previous five years.

In standing sales, the average price of pine logs remained same from December, spruce logs fell by one per cent and pulpwood prices were down by two to three per cent.

Timber prices

In January, the average price of spruce logs in standing sales fell by one per cent from December to just over EUR 82 and the average price of pine logs remained at EUR 80 per cubic metre. Prices were respectively three and four per cent higher than the average prices for the whole of last year in real terms.
The average price of a birch log was just over EUR 65 in standing sales. This was one per cent less than in the previous month and the same as the average for the whole of 2024.
In standing sales of pulpwood, prices fell by just under a euro, with spruce to over EUR 33 and pine and birch below EUR 32. Average prices were two to four percent higher than the average for the whole of last year.
In delivery sales of pulpwood, average prices for all species remained close to EUR 53. The price of spruce fell by two per cent from December, with smaller changes for other species.

Average timber prices and their real changes in January 2025

	January 2025	Compared to the previous month	Compared to the previous year as a whole
	€/m³	%	%
Standing sales
Pine logs	80,07	0	4
Spruce logs	82,18	-1	3
Birch logs	65,32	-1	0
Pine pulpwood	31,62	-2	4
Spruce pulpwood	33,38	-2	3
Birch pulpwood	31,82	-3	2
Delivery sales
Pine pulpwood	52,73	0	6
Spruce pulpwood	53,15	-2	4
Birch pulpwood	53,17	1	5

Trade volumes

In January, a fifth more industrial roundwood was purchased from private forests than a year earlier. The volume was one third higher than the average for January in the previous five years.
Compared with the previous five years, trade in logs grew by 38 per cent and trade in pulpwood by 24 per cent.

Background information on the statistics

Unit prices in roundwood trade are recorded in the statistical database at the fair prices valid each time. However, price changes are examined in the texts and graphs in real terms by eliminating the change in value using the cost-of-living index. In January 2025, the annual increase in consumer prices was around one per cent.

The recorded prices are based on prices entered in wood trade agreements between the buyers and sellers. Any other increments and services related to wood trade are not included in the statistics.

Wood trade data for statistics are provided by the largest buyers of wood and forest management associations. As the information is not rounded up to correspond to the total non-industrial private wood trade in Finland, the published wood volumes only represent about 90 per cent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.