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Unchanged Finnish log prices

Article by Martin Heidelbauer, translated by Susanne Höfler | 26.11.2017 - 13:11

The stumpage price amounted to € 55 sm³ in October.

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In Finland, the stumpage price for spruce was € 58.2/sm³ in October, as reported by the Natural Resource Institute Finland (Luke). Pine logs yielded € 55/sm³. Compared to the previous month, slight price increases were observed. Spruce showed a plus of € 0.3/sm³ and pine € 0.1/sm³.

Pine pulpwood was sold for € 15.8/sm³, and spruce pulpwood for € 17.4/sm³. In this respect, prices remained unchanged in comparison to September.

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