Around a month from new year's day to spring festival, it has been a poor season in the construction materials market. However, as many people wait for the construction of the construction materials market after the spring season, a number of floor brands continue to be notified of price increases. This is still the case for the rise of the floors of the wood, which ranged from $10 to $50 per square metre. Moreover, journalists were told by the floor industry that if raw materials continued to rise, it would not be excluded that the floor price would rise again in march and april。
New year's floor price has increased
According to the pattern of the renovation market, after the spring season each year, there will be a boom in the construction materials market at the end of february and early march. This year, however, the floor market can't wait to finish the spring festival, and as soon as new year's eve comes, many floor brands have gone up quietly。
“in december last year, the plant was notified of the price adjustment and prices have risen.” the chief manager of the world's friends' floor in nanjing told the reporters that the price increases were mainly for the ground floors, such as the high-middle-heavy wood floors, which increased by $450 per square metre, and the low-middle wing beans and the large eye floors, which increased by more than a dozen dollars per square metre. Prices for wood complex floors have increased only slightly, for example, because of labour costs, while prices for reinforced floors have not changed significantly。
Cho also revealed that the increase in the price of the floor was less than two months from the last floor price increase, “a price increase was just made at the end of november of last year on the advice of the manufacturer, and a second price increase was not expected so soon”
The salesman at another floor door shop at the red star and kayonka gate told reporters that all the wood floors in their shop were now over $300 per square metre. “last year, there were some 250 floors, and the price has now risen.”
Vendors: unable to withstand rising pressure on raw materials
At the beginning of the new year, floor prices had risen “inexplicably”, and industry sources had claimed that the scarcity of raw materials was the result of an upward adjustment in terminal prices due to pressure to “hold” the rise in the price of raw materials。
According to tsao, most of the raw wood floors in the market come from abroad, such as the fragrance beans, mainly from brazil, and the soybeans from africa ... And the international log prices have been rising since the beginning of the previous year. The total increase in log prices last year was between 5 and 10 per cent. “although large floorers would be hoarding raw materials, the price of wood in most parts of the world has been at a high level for two years, so that now large floorers have had to make price adjustments, while small floorers have even had to stop producing solid floors that were scarce in part of their raw materials because of the lack of raw materials.” cao wrote。
March floor prices are still likely to increase
After the spring season, the market will soon warm up as the temperature rises, and at the end of february and the beginning of march of each year it will become the traditional price increase for construction materials. But the floor has risen in january, and will it rise again
“this depends on the line of business, and it is only possible not to rule out.” cho stated that, depending primarily on whether international log prices are rising or whether there will be large fluctuations in sales in the terminal floor market, “if international log prices continue to rise and no major fluctuations in floor sales have occurred after january's rise, floorers will not rule out a further price adjustment in march, but the price increase may not be this large. There is also the possibility that, while international log prices continue to rise, the terminal market will not accept such a large increase in the price of real floors, leading to a significant decline in sales of real floors, and the producers will have to rely on ' inventory of raw materials `to continue to withstand the upward pressure on raw materials and to maintain the price of the terminal market in order to stabilize the market share of solid wood floors.”
In addition, journalists have learned that the first price increase in the floor market in 2014 was due to higher prices for raw materials, so that a number of building materials brands, such as wooden doors, stairs and wood closets, which also use logs as primary raw materials, are now being notified by manufacturers and are expected to increase their terminal prices by march。
