Furniture manufacturers face up to a 50% drop in orders

Rising prices of raw materials for production and energy are causing the Polish furniture industry to start losing its competitiveness to cheaper producers from Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, or China. Customers are postponing furniture purchases for better times, resulting in a drop in domestic and foreign orders by up to 50 percent. The situation is also not improved by staff shortages in the industry and the unfavorable system of selling wood on the domestic market.