Reference
Guides
What you need to know before reading a timber price — ours or anyone else’s.
How timber pricing works in Europe
Why the same tree has four different prices between forest and workshop, what a transport term does to a quote, and the five questions to ask before comparing any two timber prices.
Market tiers
Bulk roundwood, value-timber auctions and retail listings are three markets, not three prices for one. Why the same oak can be €70 and €2,300 per cubic metre in the same country.
Normalization
The VAT, currency, unit and transport conversions in the order they are applied, with every constant and a worked example you can check with a calculator.
Index changelog
Every change to how a published number is computed, and every correction to one, dated by the day it reached production.