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ONF Ventes de Bois: physical commodity exchange in Maisons-Alfort

ONF Ventes de Bois is an online system for presenting and selling timber from French public forests. Maisons-Alfort, France.

AGR-338 · Physical commodity exchange · Maisons-Alfort, France · EUR

ONF Ventes de Bois is an online system for presenting and selling timber from French public forests. The forest or timber-storage location is specified for each lot. The system is relevant to sawmills, panel and paper manufacturers and buyers of energy wood seeking supplies from particular regions and forest stands.

For 2025, ONF reports approximately 11.1 million cubic metres sold from public forests after excluding affouage, or local wood allocations. Around 5.5 million cubic metres were sold under supply contracts. The latter is a subset and should not be added to the overall sales figure. These statistics describe the wider ONF and public-forest selling activity; they are not a measurement solely of transactions executed through the online interface.

The catalogue supports searches by location, species and product form. Standing timber and already harvested wood can impose very different responsibilities on the buyer. A lot description may specify the forest parcel, area, indicative volume, cutting type, certification and operating deadline. Submitting an offer requires appropriate system access. Read the particular sale conditions and consult the contact named for the lot before bidding, especially where harvesting and access arrangements affect the cost of acquisition.

CNPF Nouvelle-Aquitaine provides a useful external price reference, publishing selected sales results by species, including ONF results. This regional channel is labelled R. A standing-timber price, roadside price and delivered price include different operations and should not be treated as directly interchangeable. Check the volume-measurement convention and treatment of bark as well. A pine sale in one area cannot automatically provide a benchmark for oak or for a materially different region.

Buyers should prepare required lengths, diameters, quality grades and intended use. For standing lots, assess road access, terrain constraints and harvesting cost before deciding a bid. The seller or delivery manager should make lot boundaries, measurement arrangements and release schedule clear. An economic comparison should separate harvesting, sorting, loading and transport. This remains necessary even when the online catalogue makes several offers easy to compare on screen. A low nominal unit price can be offset by difficult extraction, a poorly matched assortment or a long journey to the receiving mill.

What is priced: Timber and forest products

Products and quotations

Standing and felled timber; oak; pine and other species; sawlogs; industrial and energy wood

Sources

All agricultural exchanges, markets and price sources