European Parquet Market consolidates its positive trend in 2017

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In general, parquet consumption continues to progress in the EU benefiting from the encouraging economic context, especially from the growth of the European consumption, and the positive trends shown by the construction sector. Germany, the biggest European market for parquet, has officially reported a significant decline in parquet consumption. The consolidated data provided by the FEP (European Federation of the Parquet Industry) member companies and affiliated national associations are at present pointing to a slight growth of the global European market of 0.3% in 2017 compared to 2016. As usual, the results show some variation from country to country. The production in FEP territory confirms its growth by 2.6% and exceeds significantly the 72 million square meter threshold.

It is important to note that, as of 2016, figures from Croatia, Estonia, Portugal and Slovenia are considered in the general FEP overview. The European production outside FEP countries is at an estimated 14.5 million square meters – 9 million square meters produced in EU countries and 5.5 million square meters in European non-EU countries.

Rising production in 2017

Parquet Production Europe 2017The total production in FEP territory rose by 2.60% to a volume of 72,184,490 m². Taking into account the total production in Europe (FEP countries + non-FEP countries in Europe) implies that production in 2017 increased by 2.15% and exceeded 86.7 million m².

The 2017 total parquet production per type remains similar to the picture already presented from 2010 onwards, whereby multilayer comes in first with 81% (compared to 80% in 2016), being followed by solid (including lamparquet) with 17% (compared to 18%) and mosaic at 2% of the total cake.

In absolute production figures by country, Poland maintains its top position at 19.17%. Sweden consolidates its second place on the podium with 15.50%. It is followed by Austria at 13.06%, while Germany comes in as fourth (10.47%).

Consumption has risen slightly in 2017

Parquet Consumption Europe 2017Consumption in the FEP area rose by 0.3% to reach 79,249,514 m² compared to 79,014,520 m2 the year before with Germany as the biggest market reporting a decrease of 8%.

In terms of consumption per country, Germany remains in first position, despite its declining market, with 21.21% and is followed by France at 10.70%. Sweden completes the podium with 9.98%. The Nordic Cluster at 8.40% keeps the fourth seat. Austria with 8.13% takes back its fifth position from Italy (8.02%) while Switzerland (7.87%) comes in seventh position only.

As regards the per capita parquet consumption, Sweden keeps the first seat (0.78 m2) before Austria (0.74 m²) and Switzerland (0.73 m2). In the total FEP area, the consumption per inhabitant remains stable at 0.18 m² in 2017.

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