According to Destatis, Germany’s sawmills generated sales worth €626.83 million in April. Year on year, this is an increase of 53.9% (April 2020: €407.15 million). On the one hand, this is the result of the strong rise in lumber prices. On the other hand, production was also at a much lower level in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. These two factors aside, though, sales also saw a marked increase of 47.6% compared to April 2019 (€424.67 million).
From January to April, sales totaled €2.125 billion, up by 34% compared to the same period of 2020 (€1.586 billion) and by 32.4% on the first four months of 2019.
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