Discontinuation of PIX Sawn Timber Finland export indices

Fastmarkets has discontinued its PIX sawn timber FAS Finland export indices on September 23, 2025.

Fastmarkets understands that these export indices had not been widely adopted by the industry, but received feedback during the consultation, which originally started on May 16, 2025, that there was some commercial use of the indices. The consultation was therefore  extended on July 7 to gather more feedback and to enable any commercial users to adjust their contracts while we investigated the possibility of continuing the indices.

There was no further feedback received by Fastmarkets during the extended consultation period.

The last publication of these indices was on August 26, 2025.

The affected indices are:

  • FP-LBR-0001, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland
  • FP-LBR-0002, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – V centre cut
  • FP-LBR-0004, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – VI
  • FP-LBR-0003, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – V side boards
  • FP-LBR-0005, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – US
  • FP-LBR-0006, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – Schaal Export
  • FP-LBR-0007, PIX Sawn Timber Pine FAS Finland – Lamina centre cut
  • FP-LBR-0008, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland
  • FP-LBR-0009, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – Sawf. centre cut
  • FP-LBR-0010, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – Sawf. Boards
  • FP-LBR-0011, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – Schaal Export
  • FP-LBR-0012, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – US centre cut
  • FP-LBR-0013, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – Genban
  • FP-LBR-0014, PIX Sawn Timber Spruce FAS Finland – VI

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of the PIX Sawn Timber FAS Finland indices, please contact Tuomo Neuvonen by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Tuomo Neuvonen, re: PIX Sawn Timber FAS Finland.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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