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2017-08-21 00:00:00
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According to estimates by the Polish Chamber of Commerce of Furniture Manufacturers, the value of furniture production in 2016 reached PLN 42.45 billion (EUR 9.84 bn/USD 10.43 bn).
"Poland is the sixth largest producer and the fourth largest exporter of furniture in the world, with a 6.3 percent share of global exports of furniture," said Head of the Office of the Polish Chamber of Commerce of Furniture Manufacturers, Michał Strzelecki, at a press conference on Monday.
As The News Poland reported, furniture is the fourth largest group of goods exported from Poland. The country shipped mainly to Germany (36 percent of Poland's furniture exports in 2016), the UK (8 percent), the Czech Republic (7 percent), France (6 percent) and the Netherlands (5 percent). The forestation rate in Poland can be estimated at about 30% and it is similar to the rate of Germany, Norway or France. It is exactly this factor that to a great extent determines the position of the wood and furniture industry in Poland which for many years has constituted an essential element of the Polish economy.
Prognoses concerning the increase of the forestation rate in Poland, predicting the level of 33% in 2050, make us look optimistically at the condition of the supply of the raw material to the wood and furniture industry if the expected growth will be proportional to the increase in wood logging and not necessarily to its price, although it seems – observing the global tendencies – to be rather inevitable.
Poland is among the largest manufacturers of doors and windows in Europe. It is also one of the top exporters of windows and doors to EU countries. According to the Polish Ministry of the Economy the value of exported PVCu windows and doors amounted to EUR 603.2 million. Last year, the value of foreign sales of wooden doors and windows amounted to EUR 543 million.
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