Forest Products: Global Industry Guide

Datamonitor's Forest Products: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Forest Products industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
• Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
• Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
• Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).
• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global forest products market grew by 16.3% in 2010 to reach a value of $1,182.6 billion.

In 2015, the global forest products market is forecast to have a value of $1,491.3 billion, an increase of 26.1% since 2010.

The global forest products market grew by 1.7% in 2010 to reach a volume of 2,885.7 million cubic meters.

In 2015, the global forest products market is forecast to have a volume of 3,027.3 million cubic meters, an increase of 4.9% since 2010.

Wood fuel is the largest segment of the global forest products market, accounting for 31.4% of the market's total value.

Asia-Pacific accounts for 54.9% of the global forest products market value.

The global forest products industry itself is highly fragmented with many leading incumbents vertically integrated and diversified in their operations. However, they still remain reliant on third party suppliers for some raw materials.

Why you should buy this report

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Market Definition

The forest products industry consists of industrial roundwood, sawnwood, wood panels and sheets, and wood fuels. It excludes roundwood, that is, trees after harvesting but before significant processing; it also excludes pulp, card, paper, and similar downstream products. The market’s volume represents consumption and is shown in millions of cubic meters.

The market’s value has been calculated at producer selling price and any currency conversions have been undertaken using constant 2010 annual exchange rates.