Volumes and prices in roundwood trade, 6/2025

The volume of roundwood trade in June fell by a fifth compared to previous years. However, the cumulative volume in the first half of the year exceeded last year's figures by 1% and the average for the previous five years by 12%.

Standing sales prices continued to rise in June. In delivery sales, pulpwood prices eased slightly, but even they remained at peak levels.

Timber prices

In standing sales in June, the average price paid for spruce logs was nearly EUR 86 per cubic metre, the same as in May, while the price of pine logs rose by 1% to EUR 84. The average price for birch logs exceeded EUR 69.
Standing sales prices for logs have risen to exceptionally high levels. The last time average monthly prices were higher than this was in 2007.
In standing sales of pulpwood, the average price of spruce pulpwood exceeded EUR 36; the price of pine and birch rose to almost EUR 35.
The monthly statistics started in 1995 have never recorded such standing sales prices for pine and birch pulpwood, and the last time the price of spruce pulpwood was this high in real terms was in 1998.
In delivery sales, pulpwood prices eased slightly from May but remained at a peak high of EUR 53-54.

Average timber prices and their real changes, June 2025

	June 2025	Compared to the previous month	Compared to the previous year as a whole
	€/m³	%	%
Standing sales
Pine logs	84,03	1	10
Spruce logs	85,77	0	7
Birch logs	69,24	2	7
Pine pulpwood	34,58	2	14
Spruce pulpwood	36,29	1	12
Birch pulpwood	34,81	2	12
Delivery sales
Pine pulpwood	53,03	-2	6
Spruce pulpwood	54,08	-1	6
Birch pulpwood	53,28	-1	6

Trade volumes

In June, 22% less industrial roundwood was purchased from private forests than a year earlier. Compared to the average purchases of the previous five years, the situation was the same.
The cumulative volume of timber trade in January-June was one per cent higher than a year ago and 12 per cent higher than the average for the previous five years.

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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 June 2025, the annual increase in consumer prices was around 0.2 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.