Prices fell 0.2% month over month in September.
价格，销售和市场
Pellet prices jumped 38.5% from a year earlier, while softwood lumber prices slipped 0.8% from August; overall industrial producer prices rose 6.7%.
Housing permits, a guide to future construction, rose 25.8% to 21,607 units; January–August starts were up 11% from a year earlier.
Prices fell 4.1% from August but remained up 11.5% from a year earlier; Canada's broader factory-gate prices were up 14.5% year over year.
Purchases roughly doubled from August, while standing-sale prices for logs and pulpwood fell 1% to 4% from the previous month.
An $829 million goodwill impairment led to a GAAP net loss of $732 million; the company expects continued strong Industrial results and more stable Consumer results in the fourth quarter.
Price increases in both regions more than offset input-cost inflation, while sales volumes reached 903,000 metric tons; Billerud expects stable markets and positive pricing in the fourth quarter.
Higher mortgage rates and economic uncertainty marked the quarter; the builder remains confident in housing fundamentals and its ability to manage the current cycle.
Variable costs fell by SEK 51 million, mainly as pulpwood prices declined, while CTMP production increased; full-year investments are expected to total about SEK 60 million.
Group operating profit of SEK 267 million included a SEK 288 million gain from the Sunpine sale; Södra plans to continue its transformation, citing the weak wood products business.
Wood products demand was subdued and log prices fell; Holmen plans to keep balancing production with market conditions.
Closings fell 9% to 6,876 homes as higher mortgage rates stretched affordability; the company continues to balance the price and pace of sales and align production.
Price for wood veneer exported from Chinese rose marginally 0.7%.
Thailand remained the largest supplier as its share fell 1.2 pp; Vietnam grew 37.6% and United States fell 24.5%.
Order intake rose to Euro 170 million, while the company kept its 2026 profit guidance unchanged.
The first installation, at Quebec hardwood sawmill Scierie Carrière, has raised productivity by up to 5%.
Index slips $1 from previous week, marking $6 decline over the past month.
Vietnam remained China's largest destination as its share fell 5.4 pp; Jordan's shipments rose more than threefold and Vietnam's fell 29.3%.
Annual growth trailed that of U.K. manufactured-products producer prices by 3.4 percentage points.
Residential investment edged down 0.3% from the previous month, with single-family investment down 1.3% from the previous month.