Forest2Mill Delivered Price Benchmarks provide subscribers with the market intelligence they need to increase their profits. Subscribers use actual market-based transaction data to:
- Track price changes and identify trends in a dynamic market
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Negotiate raw material and residual price changes
- Determine specific pricing for preferred raw materials
- Gain efficiency in raw material acquisition
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Secure and stabilize supply agreements
- Meet growing demand from emerging technologies
- Improve vendor loyalty and relationships
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Compare pricing to the market-at-large
- Quantify raw material procurement costs by component
- Measure results against the broader market
- Identify performance improvement opportunities
- Establish facility and individual performance objectives
- Determine intra-company transfer prices
- Improve internal and investor communications
Please note, Forest2Market offers Pacific Northwest products and services for those actively engaged in regular buy-sell transactions of wood raw materials such as the forest industry; corporate, institutional and government landowners; pulp and paper, chip and building products mills; and bioenergy facilities.
Forest2Mill reports market price for all wood raw materials and residuals:
- Domestic and export prices for Douglas fir and other conifer saw logs
- Interior PNW pine and fir species
- Conifer and hardwood pulpwood, chip-n-saw and chipwood
- Wood chips (residual and whole log)
Each month, participants receive:
- Quartiled mill cost rankings by species
- Log price matrix by length and diameter
- Pulpwood cost comparisons by area
- Wood chip and sawmill residual delivered prices
Forest2Market delivers the only credible benchmark in the industry by collecting actual delivered raw material costs and cost components from major forest product companies. Forest2Market introduced the Forest2Mill Delivered Price Benchmark in the South in 2006 and in the Pacific Northwest in 2007. Currently, 100% of TIMOs, 65% of REITs and 80% of the largest forest products companies participate in these benchmark services.
Benchmark Areas for the Pacific Northwest
