As early as May 2017, the Myanmar Forestry Industry Association announced that to protect the forest ecological environment, Myanmar will stop the export of wood and wood products. Association Secretary Wu Suowen said that due to the scarcity of raw materials, should be used for domestic timber exports to foreign countries, worrying about the shortage of domestic timber, the current priority to the domestic market demand.
Three years ago, Myanmar began to prohibit the export of logs, last year has introduced a "ban on logging", "limit order", earlier this year to increase the "illegal logging" cracked a lot of wood smuggling, and now will stop the wood And the export of wood products, reflecting the increasing protection of resources in Myanmar standards.
Wood prices are a "tough decision"
Throughout the domestic timber industry, it is understood that Jilin, Yunnan, Guangxi and other large production of timber, said the sharp reduction in forestry.
In addition, the United States, Russia, Malaysia and other countries have announced plans to reduce timber exports.
In this case, the price of wood in all directions is like a last resort "hard decision", the momentum is difficult to suppress. High-grade flooring such as teak price increase is likely to reach 15% - 20%.
The price of timber will rise or will affect the industry shuffle
According to the survey, 84.75% of consumers believe that the price of wood will lead to furniture, flooring, doors and other related products related to the downstream price increases; more 1/5 of consumers said they may choose to buy other higher Cost-effective products; and the other 4/5 to accept the increase in the consumer that can only accept 10% of the following gains. Floor manufacturers to bear the cost of timber prices brought about by the pressure, the downstream consumers do not buy it. This price behavior is not the initiative in the hands of enterprises, can only take the default attitude. But the floor business generally through the form of internal management to digest, to avoid a short period of time to suddenly raise the price of the product.
While the other part of the enterprise said that the price of wood products will be weak enterprises in the industry play a certain role in the elimination, will force many home enterprises to embark on innovation and research and development of the road to improve the value-added products and services to adapt to the market Rather than blindly fight the price. In addition to looking for new timber, market segments, the control of upstream resources to become some of the business "amulet."
Timber prices on the low-end building materials brand may be greater impact, but also make the industry threshold to improve the re-shuffle the entire industry, will be to a certain extent, promote the healthy development of the industry as a whole. While pure solid wood will be more high-end and aristocratic.
The future can be expected that the side of the timber is rising, while demand is reduced, the market continues to face the test, but for high-end enterprises, may face sales decline, but the market share will not necessarily decline.
