Europe

Sawlog prices in Latvia on sharp rise

    In the third quarter of 2018, the average roundwood purchase prices in Latvia have continued their [...]

Tropical logs imports in Europe go up by 11% in 2018

After a sharp downturn in 2017, EU imports of tropical logs recovered some lost ground in 2018 but were still [...]

Trends in the Central European wood pellet market

On February 27th and 28th, 2019, the European Pellets Conference took place in Wels, Austria. Around 660 participants came to [...]

Kronospan makes record profits in Latvia

  Kronsopan Riga, the company's Latvian subsidiary, has achieved record profits in its financial year (October 2017/September [...]

European biomass sector continues steady growth

According to the recently released Eurobarometer, in 2017 the European solid biomass sector came close to 100 Mtep (Million tons [...]

Italy boosts its wood pellets imports in 2018

After a 9% increase in 2017, wood pellets imported by Italy showed a much more consistent trend growth in 2018 [...]

Arauco posts sharp fall in EBITDA for Q4/2018

Arauco´s fourth quarter net income was US$70.1 million, a decrease of 68.2% compared to the third [...]

Worldwide lumber trade starts to drop

    In 2018, global trade of lumber fell for the first time in five years, with total [...]

Wood pellet market in Spain advancing rapidly

The Spanish pellet market is growing rapidly,. Production capacity in Spain currently stands at 1.87 million tonnes per year [...]

Wood has a good role in construction, EC says

On 4th March, the  EU Commission published  a comprehensive report on the implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan, adopted [...]