Assoimballaggi: concern for the increasing of the prices

The increasing of the wood prices – that will be about 20 percent at the end of the first quarter of 2010 – hit in a significant way the packing industry. For this reason Assoimballaggi, the National association of packing industry companies, expresses its concern about the difficult situation of the industry.
The producers of pallet and wooden packing are facing a difficult period because of the sudden increasing of the prices (between 25 and 35 euros for cube meters) that caused a progressive reduction of the requests of packing products. The factors that caused this situation are principally due to a new increasing of the prices of logs, to a poor availability of sawn wood for packaging and pallet, and to the general crisis of the industries. It must add also the effects of the economic crisis with all its consequences.