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Chinese wood-based panels manufacturers to cease production due to environmental requirements

According to the Chinese government’s environmental policy called the “Three-Year Plan on Defending the Blue Sky” industrial enterprises [...]

Forecast: Booming expansion of wood pellets production in Russia expected by 2025

While Russia’s wood pellet production is relatively young, it accounts for a six percent share of world wood pellet [...]
August 31, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Russia

Cheaper wood pellets in Germany

    Wood pellets in Germany are still available at low prices this summer. As compared to July [...]

10 largest Russian sawmills boost revenues in 2017

In 2017, the total revenue of the 10 biggest forest products companies in Russia amounted 339.4 billion rubles ($5 [...]

Japan’s Sumitomo buys interest in US housing company

Sumitomo Forestry has acquired a 60% equity interest in the United States Mark III Properties.    The [...]

Drax completes conversion of 4th coal unit to biomass

    Drax has switched on its fourth biomass generating unit—taking the power station in North Yorkshire [...]

China: Redwood imports on the rise

The average growth in the value of retail sales of commodities in 2017 was 8.2% but sales of furniture [...]

Booming exports of Russian wood pellets

The Russian Customs Service reports exports of wood pellets from Russia in CY2017, at 1.44 MMT, or more than [...]
August 30, 2018 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Chinese wood-based panel industry faces huge challenges

China’s production of wood products, especially wood-based panels, has increased rapidly in recent years.     [...]
August 23, 2018 Latest Trends / Wood-based Panels / ...China

Major structural change is underway in the African timber industry

A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away from the European market [...]