@stig - not knowing anything about manufacturing in Denmark, can you elaborate on what does occur there? Seems like biomass is still strong (wish it was here)...are there any high end milling operations going on?
We don't export softwood, don't even grow enough of that to fill the market here, so we import some.
All of thgat is milled locally.
We have way more Beech than we can use ourselves, so a lot of that is exported.
The part that goes to Asia ( China and Vietnam, mostly) goes out as whole logs, export to Europe is milled here.
We have a local mill that has specialized in vacuum drying it. That keeps it really light in color.
They ship to all of Western Europe and even sell some to Japan.
Biomass is a big deal, we've converted a bunch of powerplants from coal to biomass, so that market is booming.
Right now the Germans are selling woodchips very cheaply. The 2017 drought killed some 267000 hectares of forest in the Hartz mountains.
So that has lowered prices somewhat for now.