Poor predictability for companies, long waiting times and expensive end products for customers.
These are the consequences of the global shortage of raw materials that arrive in the district.
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- Everyone who wants to build a house, stands in front of empty shelves in the hardware store or is currently doing renovation work feels this. From the individual carpenter to sawmill operators, building partners and building materials dealers, everyone is affected.
There are almost "no product materials that can be removed," explains Michael Reiniger, building materials dealer from Unterhaching.
“Of course, that affects us fully as a construction center,” he says.
“Wood, plastics, silicones, metals, concrete.
So practically everything! "
Close entanglements with the world market
The scarcity of building materials has various reasons and is highly complex due to the close entanglement of the world market. But one thing after the other: There is not enough wood in the district. Master carpenter Michael Dresel from Haar groans under the rising wood prices and poor availability. Wood is twice as expensive as at the beginning of the year and chipboard, for example, is almost impossible to get any more. “It's really difficult. I used to plan 6 to 8 weeks in advance - today I have to order my wood 8 to 16 weeks in advance. ”Dresel says:“ All wood that is produced in Bavaria is sold over the counter ”, meaning export to the United States. Usually the US imports a lot of wood from Canada. There, however, the mountain pine beetle, a species of bark beetle, ragesand destroyed lumber in a forest area of approximately 180,000 square kilometers. So the USA needs wood - and in Europe it is driving prices up and stocks down.
Distant beetle, problem close by
Claudia Manthei from the Schrobenhauser property developer in Unterhaching explains that the Beetle is becoming an immediate problem for companies here in the district: “Asia and America are currently consuming a lot of wood. We also notice price increases - and we're not just talking about five percent, but about significantly more. "The enormous price increase for construction timber of over 100 percent in the last few months has other reasons:" The previous reporting is far too clumsy for me. Everything is projected onto the export to the USA and China, ”complains Klaus Widmann, managing director of the sawmill and timber trade Kogler in Kreuzpullach. The beetle plague and exports are more like “the last drop that brings the barrel to overflowing.“You have to approach the topic in a more differentiated way and also consider aspects such as the corona crisis and traffic jams on trade routes. "You can feel globalization there," says wood professional Widmann. It is very difficult to assess when the situation will normalize again. There are already delivery caps for certain types of wood from the industry. Only certain contingents will be delivered.
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It is difficult to predict when the situation will normalize again, says Klaus Widmann from the Kogler sawmill and timber trade in Kreuzpullach.
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It is not just wood that is becoming scarce
But not only wood is currently in short supply.
It's about much more, explains building materials dealer Reiniger.
There is also a massive shortage of metals, concrete, silicone and plastics.
He sees no solution, “there are too many links in the chain for that.
You made yourself dependent, ”says Reiniger.
“The chain goes on and on.” Specifically, there is no insulation material or the banal plastic bucket.
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Franz Hanika from the construction company of the same name in Haar is assuming a price increase of 20 percent for end products.
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With all the abstract connections there are concrete consequences and problems.
Above all, end products such as auto parts or construction projects are becoming more expensive.
Franz Hanika from the construction company of the same name from Haar assumes a price increase of around 20 percent, which he has to teach his customers.
"We fear that it will not go back at all," he says, although he also emphasizes that the price of wood, for example, had reached a similar price level four years ago.
Laura May
