Forest Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Eucalyptus log prices in Brazil have gone up 25% the past year, almost
reaching the global average hardwood fiber price index in the 1Q/2010,
reports the Wood Resource...
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Forest Products Market Update
- a news brief from Wood Resources International LLC
Eucalyptus log prices in Brazil have gone up 25% the past year, almost
reaching the global average hardwood fiber price index in the 1Q/2010,
reports the Wood Resource Quarterly
The supply and demand for Eucalyptus logs in Brazil has been in balance the past year,
which has resulted in stable log prices in the local currency, according to the Wood
Resource Quarterly.
As a result of the strengthening Real, log costs have gone up in US
dollar terms and were 25 percent higher in the 1Q/10 than in early 2009.
Seattle,
USA.
June,
2010.
Eucalyptus pulplog prices in Brazil have been very stable in
the local currency and they have hardly changed at all since 2006, as reported in the
Wood Resource Quarterly.
In US dollar terms, on the other hand, wood fiber costs have
increased substantially because of the strengthening of the Brazilian Real.
Five years ago, Brazil had some of the lowest wood fiber costs in
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