Transcript Secondary processed wood products markets, including engineered wood products UNECE TIMBER COMMITTEE Fifty-ninth session 2-5 October 2001

Secondary processed wood
products markets,
including engineered wood
products
UNECE TIMBER COMMITTEE
Fifty-ninth session
2-5 October 2001
• Secretariat introduction by Mr. Ed
Pepke, Forest Products Marketing
Specialist, UNECE & FAO Timber
Section
• European flooring market by Mr. Filip
De Jaeger, Deputy Secretary General,
CEI-Bois
• Discussion
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Highlights from Forest Products
Annual Market Review, 2000-2001
• World trade of secondary processed wood
products is expanding at a faster rate than
trade in primary wood products.
• United States, Germany, France, United
Kingdom and Japan account for 60% of
world imports of secondary processed wood
products.
• Changing import supply patterns to these
markets differ by product and by country.
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Highlights from Forest Products
Annual Market Review, 2000-2001
•
Imports of secondary processed wood products
from tropical producers are replacing primary product
imports from these producers.
•
Comparative advantage in the manufacture of
secondary processed wood products is likely to shift
increasingly to regions with low production costs.
•
The value of world trade in wooden furniture
($29 billion) exceeds that of sawnwood ($25 billion)
and wood-based panels ($16 billion).
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Highlights from Forest Products
Annual Market Review, 2000-2001
• Engineered wood product markets are
gaining market share in North America; for
example, 33% of wood floor area is now
built with wooden I-beams.
• North
American
glulam
production
increased by 14% in 2000.
• Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) production
in North America declined by 6% in 2000.
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EU imports of tropical primary and secondary
wood products from tropical producing
countries, 1995-1998
1995 1998
Primary products 1
2,953 2,605 (Million $)
-12%
Secondary products 2 1,272 1,641 (Million $)
+29%
1 Logs, sawnwood, plywood, veneers.
2 Wooden furniture and parts, builders’ woodwork,
other processed secondary wood products, cane and
bamboo furniture and parts.
Source: ITTO, 2000.
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Four drivers of international trade
in secondary processed wood
products
• Exporters of primary products are adding
value to their basic products to improve
profitability and to avoid the strong cyclical
movements associated with commodity
products.
• Shifts in manufacturing location reflecting
regional differences in cost
competitiveness.
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Four drivers of international trade
in secondary processed wood
products
• Technology transfer facilitates regional
shifts in production.
• International agreements reducing tariffs
and other trade barriers are creating new
international trading opportunities.
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Engineered Wood Products
• Glulam
• I-beams
• Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)
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Glulam (glued, laminated
sawnwood beams)
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Glulam (glued, laminated
sawnwood beams)
• World glulam production increased by 19%
in 2000 to a record 3.1 million cubic metres.
• Japanese imports of glulam increased 55%
in 2000.
• North American glulam production
increased by 14% in 2000 because higher
demand in N. America, Japan and Europe.
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Glulam (continued)
• Standard sizes growing in popularity in both
residential and non-residential building
construction.
• APA-the Engineered Wood Association’s
outlook for North American domestic market
growth is 1% to 3% annually.
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Glulam production by region and
countries, 1995-2000
1000 m3
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
0
1995
World
1996
1997
Japan
Europe
1998
Russia
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1999
2000
North America
Wooden I-beams
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Wooden I-beams
• 33% of the wood floor area in United States and
Canadian homes is built with I-beams that have
substituted for solid sawn joists or beams.
• North American I-beam production declined
3% in 2000
• 1/3 of the decline can be attributed to fewer
housing starts. 2/3 of the decline was due to a
loss in market share to conventional sawnwood
at lower prices in 2000
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Laminated veneer lumber (LVL)
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Laminated veneer lumber (LVL)
• LVL production in North America
declined 6% in 2000 to 1.4 million
cubic meters.
• 2000 production drop due to the decline
in I-beam production (60% of LVL is
used for flanges of I-beams).
• 3% to 4% annual growth forecast by
APA.
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Next presentation:
Mr. Filip De Jaeger, CEI-Bois on
European Flooring Market
Then discussion on secondary
processed wood products and
engineered wood products.
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2-5 October 2001