Europe

Worst bark beetle infestation in decades expected in France

    Long waves of heat, dry weather have brought the worst bark beetle infestation in two decades [...]

Demand of wood pellets in EU expected to reach 30 million tons this year

The US has the potential to supply 65 percent of the EU wood pellet import demand, at an expected trade [...]

EU wood furniture imports on a downward trend

The generally slow development of the EU wood furniture market in 2018 is also apparent in the import data. After [...]

Euroconstruct: Growth of European construction sector expected to slow in the next years

European construction output is forecasted to increase by less than 2% in 2019, and by less than 1.5 percentage [...]

Rising European trend in wood pellet production continues

    With a production of about 16.9 mmt in 2018, about fifty percent of global production [...]

Stora Enso plans capacity increase in CLT and construction beam mills

    Stora Enso has initiated feasibility studies for a possible cross laminated timber (CLT) unit in connection [...]

Bark beetle logging doubled in Czech forests

In the first half of 2019, the number of bark beetle logged wood in the Czech State Forests more than [...]
July 29, 2019 Market Analysis / Forestry / ...Sawmilling / Europe

Germany: Price of wood pellets continues to fall in June

The price of wood pellets in Germany fell again slightly compared to the previous month of June by 1.73 [...]

Swedish sawlog prices on the rise in Q2/2019

    The second quarter of 2019 shows rising sawlog prices in Sweden on a yearly basis. Pine [...]

Global wood pellets demand expected to be driven by Asia in the next 10 years

Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]