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Highest timber cuts in 25 years
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2016-01-21T10:00:00.000Z
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Commercial roundwood removals 2015. Highest timber cuts in 25 years and falling prices.

Commercial roundwood removals, 2015, preliminary figures

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Highest timber cuts in 25 years

A total of 10.2 million cubic metres of industrial roundwood were cut for sale in 2015; an increase of 390 000 cubic metres from 2014. In the same period, the average price decreased by 4 per cent.

Commercial roundwood removalsPublished 21 January 2016
2015Price change, per cent
1000 cubic metresNOK per cubic metre2014 - 20152010 - 2015
Total10 159334-4-6
Spruce
Saw logs4 047436-4-3
Pulpwood3 101203-6-19
Unsorted saw logs403320-3-9
Pine
Saw logs1 403450-3-2
Pulpwood983194-2-17
Unsorted saw logs55253-16-23
Broad-leaved
Saw logs138235-2
Pulpwood166202-4-2
Unsorted saw logs........

Source: Statistics Norway

The quantity of timber cut for sale in 2015 is the highest since the end of the 1980s. Forest owners obtained an average price of NOK 334 per cubic metre of roundwood sold in 2015, compared with NOK 349 in 2014.

The aggregated gross value of roundwood sold to the manufacturing industry in 2015 amounted to NOK 3.4 billion; a decrease of NOK 17.4 million.

The major part was spruce

In 2015, spruce made up three quarters of the total removals, while pine constituted one quarter. The volume of broad-leaved came to 2 per cent.

40 per cent exported

External trade figures show that 4 million cubic metres of timber were exported in 2015, which is 40 per cent of all timber cut for sale this year.