Wood Costs Were 53% of the Total Production Costs for Pulp Mills Worldwide in the 1Q/09

Wood amount is the agency that generally determines the competitiveness of a lurid accomplishment plant. This amount about varies amid 40-65% of the absolute banknote amount depending on artefact brand and the costs of added apparatus such as chemicals, activity and labour.

In the 1Q/09, the common boilerplate amount of copse as a allotment of absolute accomplishment amount was 53%, according to Fisher International’s database. This database includes advice about amount and accessories advice for over 640 copse pulp-producing accessories common (both bazaar and chip lurid manufacturers). The countries with the everyman copse amount basic (as a allotment of absolute accomplishment cost) were New Zealand, Russia and Western Canada. Japan, China and Finland had the accomplished copse amount percentages (see actual trends for anniversary country in the accepted affair of the WRQ).

Fisher International aswell ranks every lurid mill’s competitiveness application a Viability Index which indicates a plant’s accident of closure. This Index is based on the cachet of alone plant’s basic requirements, assembly costs, admeasurement and abstruse age. In the 1Q/09, lurid mills in Indonesia and Chile were ranked with the everyman accident of closures while Japan, Spain and France were regions with the atomic aggressive lurid plants.

A added appraisal of the abstracts abaft the Viability Index shows that even in low-risk countries, alone plants were in the high-risk category. For archetype in Australia and Germany, 29% and 14% of the mills, respectively, fell aural this chic in the 1Q/09. Japan stands out with 2/3 of the country’s pulp-producing plants accepting classified as high-risk plants.

The boilerplate copse cilia costs for lurid manufacturers common has collapsed by about 15% the accomplished 12 months, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. The Global Conifer Wood Fiber Index (GCFI) was at US$90.01/odmt and the Global Non-Conifer Wood Fiber Index (GNCFI) was US$94.92/odmt in the 2Q/09. The better amount abatement for conifer cilia occurred in Finland, Germany and Russia, while non-conifer copse costs accept collapsed the a lot of in France, Japan, Germany and Finland. It is accepted that copse cilia costs accept bottom-out in abounding markets and that they will alpha accretion after in the 2009.

Global balk bazaar advertisement is included in the 50-page advertisement Wood Resource Quarterly. The report, accustomed in 1988 and with readers in over 25 countries, advance sawlog and pulpwood prices in a lot of regions about the apple and aswell includes approved updates of the latest developments in all-embracing timber, pulp, barge and biomass markets.

Press Contact:
Hakan Ekstrom
Wood Resources International LLC
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Bothell, WA 98041 USA
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