According to the Austrian Timber Industry Association, the sawdust price index was at 352.7% in August, up by 2.8 percentage points compared to July. However, the index value is still 240.2 percentage points below with the summer’s high of last year.
As a look in the Datacube shows, the price index for wood chips remained relatively constant year on year, the difference between August 2023 and the same month of this year being only 38.1 percentage points. Contrary to sawdust, the price index for wood chips has seen a constant downward trend lasting several months. Since the start of 2024, it has lost as many as 31.7 percentage points. Compared to July, the index value decreased by 1.9 points.
