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Delivered Price Benchmark - Pacific Northwest

Please note that Forest2Market offers products and services in the Pacific Northwest for those actively engaged in regular buy-sell transactions of wood raw materials: the forest industry; corporate, institutional and government landowners; pulp and paper mills, chip mills, building products mills and bioenergy facilities.

Forest2Market Delivered Price Benchmarks provide subscribers with the market intelligence they need to increase their profits:

  • Track price changes and identify trends in a dynamic market
  • Negotiate raw material and residual price changes with actual market-based transaction data
    • Determine specific pricing for preferred raw material profile
    • Gain efficiency in raw material acquisition
  • Secure and stabilize supply agreements
    • Position yourself for growing demand from emerging technologies
    • Improve vendor loyalty and relationships
  • Compare your pricing to the “market-at-large” utilizing actual transaction data
    • 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

 

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Forest2Mill reports market price for all wood raw materials and residuals:

  • Domestic and export log 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
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Forest2Market began offering the Delivered Price Benchmark in the South in 2006 and in the Pacific Northwest in 2007. Currently, 100% of all TIMOs, 65% of all REITs and 80% of the largest forest products companies participate in these benchmark services.

Benchmark Areas for the Pacific Northwest

Forest2Market Delivered Price Benchmark PNW

 

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