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Top 5: Market Points from IndustryEdge

Every month, IndustryEdge publishes Wood Market Edge, Australia’s only forestry and wood products market and trade analysis, and supplies its customers with hundreds of unique data products, advisory and consulting services.

  • 746 million m3 – Australia’s apparent consumption of sawn softwood for the year-ended April 2018use
  • 134,391 m3 – imports of MDF were up 36.7% over the year-ended April 2018
  • 5,627 m3 – imports of sawn hardwood in April 2018
  • $138.74 – the average price of Softwood Log exports (larger than 15cm diameter) in April 2018
  • 8% – the Port of Albany (WA) exported the second largest volume of woodchips from Australia in 2017-18, well behind the Port of Portland (based on IndustryEdge’s unique vessel tracking system)

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