WRI’s wood fiber prices indices reached four-year highs in late 2018 as costs for wood chips and pulplogs moved upward in most regions aound the world
Global wood fiber prices have trended upward for much of the period 2014 to 2018, with wood costs going up the most for pulpmills in Western North America, Europe, Indonesia and China. Only pulpmills in Brazil and Eastern Canada have seen their wood costs go down during this period.Seattle, USA.Wood fiber costs ranged between 45% and 70% of the cash costs for the production of pulp around the world in the 4Q/18. The costs for wood chips and pulplogs were generally higher worldwide in 2018 than in 2017 with both the Softwood Fiber Price Index (SFPI)and the Hardwood Fiber Price Index (HFPI)
