Caption

Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Spruce logs, here spruce wood infested by bark beetles, beetle wood, is processed into construction timber, construction timber is scarce and expensive, carpentries and joineries are struggling with rapidly rising raw timber prices in times of the corona crisis, large quantities of logs are exported to China and the USA

Date

May 12, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Rupert Oberhäuser

Reference

BRK25D91_422

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NA

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No

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Rights managed

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103,3Mb (5,3Mb) / 24,1in x 16,6in / 7229 x 4993 (300dpi)

Keywords

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