Forest products short-term forecasts
Near-term economic outlooks for the pulp, paper and wood products markets
Get ahead of market trends, risks and opportunities when you subscribe to our short-term forecasts. Our analysts bring together Fastmarkets’ trusted price data and their expertise in macroeconomic analysis to give you clear projections and scenarios on a one-to-two-year time horizon. Learn more about our transparent forecasting methodology.
Our forecasts are designed to help you get a deeper understanding of the future of your market, so that you can stand behind your price, supply and demand projections with confidence. That’s why each forecast comes with expert commentary on the impact of macroeconomic forces on supply and demand, the impact of supply and demand on price and inventory levels, as well as regularly updated price projections and many more market insights.
Buyers and sellers of forest products use our price data to:
- Build more resilient supply chains
- Adapt to disruptions
- Understand the market context behind the data
- Build more accurate, easier-to-defend budgets
- Consider the hidden factors affecting partners and suppliers
- Execute a more agile risk and production strategy
Our short-term forecasts cover the following markets at the global and regional levels:
- Timber and bioenergy
- Wood products
- Pulp
- Recovered paper
- Graphic paper
- Paper packaging
- Tissue
- Nonwovens
News, forecasts, mill intelligence and price reporting for 3,500+ grades to keep you ahead of the competition
Explore the Fastmarkets Metropolitan Dashboard, a new feature in our Lumber and Structural Panel Commentaries that offers detailed metropolitan-level insights into wood product consumption.
Whether you’re a retailer, wholesaler or mill operator, this tool equips wood industry professionals to:
- Better-understand lumber and structural panel usage
- Evaluate demand in new construction and repair & remodeling markets
- Benchmark market share in key metropolitan areas
- Make informed decisions in a dynamic wood products landscape
Forecasting is not an absolute exact science, but it provides a general expectation of future growth scenarios based on assumptions. Accessing two, five and 15-year forecasts by region and grade enables parties to plan around market changes. At Fastmarkets, our macroeconomic forecasts serve as a foundation for various forestry product forecasts, such as pulp, packaging, […]
Timber prices continue to remain subdued by our estimates. Log demand and prices have declined in most major North American producing regions as the US housing market throttled back and mills were temporarily shut or reduced shifts. Timber prices are influenced by many factors, one of which is lumber prices. In the US, roughly 70% […]
Starting 2025, concerns about potential tariffs left North American pulp market participants on edge. As they closed January prices and negotiated new orders for February, the landscape could starkly change. In the European pulp market, pulp producers have announced price increases for both bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp and northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp. […]
Fastmarkets forest products give market participants and investors the transparency and clarity to make critical and strategic business decisions.
Market-reflective price data covering more than 2,800 commodities and 80 sub-grades with Fastmarkets forest products prices
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