Forest2Market Welcomes Bergs Timber to Baltic Rim Timber Price Index
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) November 19, 2015 -- Forest2Market is pleased to announce that Swedish company Bergs Timber has joined its Baltic Rim Timber Price Index and supply chain optimization service. These services, which will be available in Scandinavia and the Baltic Rim in the first quarter of 2016, provide timber pricing, competitive indexing, and other analytics that can be used to extract value from the supply chain.
Forest2Market, a leading provider of market data and analytics in the US, Canada and Brazil, and Indufor, a global forest consulting service provider, have formed a partnership to bring this first transaction-based log and fiber pricing and supply chain optimization system to the region.
Bergs Timber owns three sawmills in southern Sweden and provides forest management and harvesting assistance to forest owners in the area. Peter Nilsson, CEO of the nearly 100 year old company, believes subscribing to the benchmark will help his company as well as the entire market: “I firmly think that the information you can provide can help the Swedish and specifically the southern Swedish log market to change in a positive way. The index will provide the facts we need for planning and decision making, and it will also enable us to see the effects of any improvements we make on our competitive position.”
“There is a reason that Bergs Timber has been around for 100 years,” said Pete Stewart, President and CEO of Forest2Market. "They’ve always responded to changes in the market with flexibility and new ideas, and this is no different. Being an early adopter of this service will give them a competitive advantage as they look toward a second century of providing value to their customers with high quality structural timber products and forest management and harvesting practices.”
Indufor’s Antti Kämäräinen added, “We are extremely happy that Bergs Timber has joined Forest2Market’s Baltic Rim Index. Bergs and its management are among the preeminent sawmill leaders in the country. We look forward to working with them well into the future to help them maintain their leadership position and usher in positive changes for the forest products industry in Sweden.
Forest2Market collects transaction data from subscribers and uses it to produce its flagship measurement tool, the wood raw material price index. The index then serves as the foundation from which value-added analytical tools are produced to help subscribers reduce their costs and refine their supply chains.
Forest2Market’s Baltic Rim Timber Price Index will bring a new level of confidence and transparency to the forest products, timberland and bioenergy industries in the region. For the first time, buyers and sellers will be able to clearly and confidently compare performance to market, accurately assess market prices and build strong partner relationships, as well as define, measure and adjust strategic decisions based on actual, real-time and actionable data.
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Bergs Timber produces and sells sawn and processed timber products with the emphasis on adaptation to customer needs. Production takes place at three sawmill plants in Mörlunda, Orrefors and Gransjö, as well as at the timber preservation company Bitus, located in Nybro. http://www.bergstimber.se/en/
Forest2Market provides market pricing data, benchmarks, supply chain expertise and other decision support services to customers in the forestry, wood and paper products and bioenergy and biochemicals industries in North and South America and Europe. http://www.forest2market.com
Indufor Oy is an independent international consulting company with the head office in Helsinki, Finland and regional offices in Auckland, New Zealand, Melbourne, Australia and Washington D.C., USA. The company provides world class advisory services to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world in forestry, sustainable natural resource management and forest/bio industries. http://www.indufor.fi
Suz-Anne Kinney, Forest2Market, http://www.forest2market.com, +1 (980) 233-4021, [email protected]
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