Purchase of wood, October 2024

Value of purchased roundwood at the annual level down by a third

The total value of roundwood purchased from private owners went down at both the annual and monthly level.

  • 13 December 2024 at 10:30
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  • provisional data
The value substantially lower than in the same month a year before …

Compared to last October, the value of purchased roundwood from private producers decreased by a third. The value decreased mostly due to lower quantity of purchased wood. The value of purchased sawlogs and veneer logs was lower by almost a fifth; the most substantial was the decrease in the value of beech sawlogs. Significantly lower was the value of wood fuel (by 81.2%), pulpwood (by 59.7%) and other industrial roundwood (by 59.4%).

… and also lower than in the previous month

Compared to September, the total value of roundwood purchased from private owners decreased by 4.4%, of that the value of sawlogs and veneer logs by 3.7%. The value of purchased pulpwood was lower by 18.3%. On the other hand, the value of purchased wood fuel and other industrial roundwood increased due to higher quantity of purchased wood.

The table with the latest data is available in the SiStat Database.
The value of purchased roundwood, Slovenia
The value of purchased roundwood, Slovenia
Purchase of roundwood, Slovenia
Oct 2024
Sep 2024
Oct 2024
Oct 2023
% change
Total-4.4-32.3
  sawlogs and veneer logs-3.7-18.9
  pulpwood, round and split-18.3-59.7
  other industrial roundwood39.9-59.4
  wood fuel19.5-81.2
METHODOLOGICAL NOTE
The monthly data for the current year are provisional. With each release the data can be corrected and completed with new data. The monthly data get the status of final data with the publication of annual data (at the latest at the end of February of the following year).

Additional explanations are available in the methodological explanations.


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