Archives: 2018

Belarus organizes 3 joint ventures with EU wood pellet producing companies

Belarus wants to organize three joint ventures with European companies, as to manufacture wood pellets together.     [...]
February 8, 2018 Market Analysis / Wood Energy / ...Europe

Guangdong wood-based panels exports went down in 2017

Chinese plywood exports from manufacturers in Guangdong Province fell in the first 11 months of 2017 with the largest drop [...]
February 8, 2018 Market Analysis / Wood-based Panels / ...China

Weaker logs demand in the EU keeps low prices in Central and West Africa

Central and West African producers are expressing confidence that the current price stability and steady order volumes for African species [...]

Swedish sawmills invest in the expansion of lumber production capacity

Valutec is set to deliver three major TC continuous kilns to Västerbotten county in the norhern parts of Sweden [...]

Enviva will acquire 500,000t of wood pellets annually from Portuguese company

    Navigator, the Portugese forest industrial company, will sell its pellets business, together with the 500,000 [...]

Vietnam wooden products exports reach $9 billion in 2018

    Vietnam's forestry products exports are forecast to reach $9 billion this year. The value of [...]

Valutec brings two more continuous kilns to Central Europe

    Austria's Hasslacher Norica Timber and Germany's Robeta Holzindustrie have chosen Valutec to deliver two [...]

Austria: wood pellets price up by 5% in January

The average price of wood pellets in Austria has reached 241 € per tonne of wood pellets or 4.92 Cent [...]

Softwood lumber imports from UK to Europe not affected by Brexit

    UK's softwood lumber imports from the European Union countries haven't been yet affected by [...]

Japan adjusts biomass subsidies due to increased demand

Japanese regulators announced at the end of 2017 about plans to stop the issuance of set price Feed-in-Tariff [...]