Monday, December 21, 2009

Hardwood Fiber Costs for the Global Pulp Industry Have Surpassed the Cost for Softwood Fiber in 2009

The balk cilia costs for the all-around lurid industry accept risen faster than softwood cilia costs in 2009. Over the accomplished 20 years, the Global Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) has about ranged amid US$5-10/odmt college than the Global Hardwood Fiber Price Index (HFPI). This accord afflicted this year because balk cilia costs accept added added than softwood costs.

The Global Wood Fiber Indices are abounding all-around boilerplate delivered copse cilia prices for the lurid industry in the regions tracked by the advertisement Wood Resource Quarterly. The regions included in the Indices calm anniversary for 85-90% of the world’s wood-based lurid assembly capacity. The prices are based on the annual boilerplate prices, and country/regional copse cilia burning data.

The HFPI was up $4.23/odmt, extensive US$99.15/odmt in the 3Q/09 as compared to the 2Q. This was mainly a aftereffect of college copse costs in Brazil, Australia, Russia and Sweden. The all-around boilerplate balk cilia amount is now over six dollars college as that of softwood fiber, a actual first.

The SFPI jumped three dollars per odmt in the 3Q to US$93.12/odmt. Much of the access occurred because the US dollar attenuated adjoin all 14 currencies in the countries included in the Index. The better increases were apparent in Germany, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia.

The SFPI Index, which predominantly includes countries with accustomed conifer breed in the Northern Hemisphere, and the HFPI Index, which abundantly consists of copse cilia prices in non-conifer acreage forests, are affected in nominal US dollars per oven-dried metric ton (odmt) of copse fiber.

During the accomplished two decades, all-around copse cilia prices beneath during a lot of of the 1990’s and aboriginal 2000, and again climbed from 2002 to 2008, according to Wood Resource Quarterly. Wood costs accomplished almanac levels in aboriginal 2008, but again fell rapidly for 12 months until the contempo access in aboriginal 2009.

Pulpwood and copse cavity bazaar updates are included in the 24-page advertisement North American Wood Fiber Review. The report, accustomed in 1982 and with readers in a lot of of the ample backwoods companies in North America, advance copse cavity and pulpwood prices in 15 key markets of the US and Canada.

Contact Information : Wood Resources International LLC, Hakan Ekstrom, info@wri-ltd.com, www.woodprices.com

Contact:
Hakan Ekstrom
Wood Resources International LLC
P.O. Box 1891
Bothell, WA 98041 USA
1-425-402-8809
info@wri-ltd.com http://www.woodprices.com .

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