Volumes and prices in roundwood trade 2025

The roundwood trade year 2025 was divided in terms of both price and volume developments. Prices increased during the first half of the year, reaching record levels in the summer, after which they turned into a sharp decline for the remainder of the year. The average prices for the whole year rose by a few percent compared with the previous year; more in delivery sales than in standing sales.

Roundwood trade was brisk early in the year, but due to a weak end of the year, the total annual volume remained lower than usual. The large trading volume of the previous year was undercut by 19 percent, and the level was 9 percent below the average of the previous five years

Roundwood prices

In standing sales from private forests, the average price of spruce sawlogs purchased in 2025 rose to nearly EUR 83 per cubic metre, and pine sawlogs exceeded EUR 80. The average price of birch sawlogs increased to almost EUR 66.
Pulpwood prices in standing sales also rose slightly, with spruce pulpwood exceeding EUR 33 and pine and birch pulpwood exceeding EUR 31.
In delivery sales, pulpwood prices increased to between EUR 51 and 53. Spruce received the highest price, with birch and pine slightly lower.
The price development of wood was clearly twofold in 2025. Prices rose sharply until the summer but then turned downward and continued to fall until the end of the year.
Real prices in standing sales reached exceptionally high levels during the summer. The June prices for pine pulpwood and birch pulpwood were the highest recorded in the monthly statistics that began in 1995. Such high standing prices for spruce pulpwood were last seen in 1998 and for all log wood in 2007. Prices in delivery sales also increased significantly
After the summer price peaks, the decline in standing sales varied between EUR 8 and 11 depending on the assortment. In delivery sales, the changes were of similar magnitude, though slightly smaller for coniferous sawlogs.
Pulpwood prices fell the most — by around 30 percent in standing sales and almost 20 percent in delivery sales. The within‑year changes were larger than ever before during the 31 years of monthly statistics. Birch sawlog prices also fluctuated considerably more than average during 2025

Average prices of industrial roundwood and their real changes in 2025

	Year 2025	Compared to the previous year	Compared to the average for the previous five years
	€/m³	%	%
Standing sales
Pine logs	80,45	4	12
Spruce logs	82,88	3	9
Birch logs	65,77	1	17
Pine pulpwood	31,12	1	30
Spruce pulpwood	33,30	1	26
Birch pulpwood	31,37	0	31
Delivery sales
Pine logs	81,99	6	12
Spruce logs	84,57	5	10
Birch logs	74,21	0	15
Pine pulpwood	51,09	3	23
Spruce pulpwood	52,59	4	23
Birch pulpwood	51,58	3	22

Trade volumes

Roundwood trade was more active than usual at the beginning of the year. However, trading slowed down in the summer and volumes declined. After the summer, roundwood trade remained exceptionally low for the rest of the year, resulting in an annual trading volume that was smaller than in previous years.
In 2025, a total of 39.4 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood purchased from private forests was recorded in the roundwood trade statistics. The volume was lower than in the four preceding years and 19 percent smaller than the year before. Compared with the average of the previous five years, the level was 9 percent lower.
Among the assortments, the largest volumes purchased were spruce sawlogs and pine pulpwood — both accounting for nearly one quarter of the total roundwood trade volume. Pine sawlogs accounted for one fifth, while birch pulpwood and spruce pulpwood each made up slightly more than one tenth. The volume of pulpwood purchased was roughly equal to the combined volume of sawlogs and small‑sized sawlogs.

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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 2025, the average inflation rate was 0.3 percent.

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 percent of the wood purchased by forest industries from non-industrial private forests.