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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 [...]

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 [...]

US softwood lumber prices pick up in mid-August

Framing lumber trading in US hit its fastest stride in more than two months, and the market finished the week [...]

European and North American sawmills registered record profits in H1/2018

Sawlog costs, the largest cost component when manufacturing lumber, have gone up much more slowly than lumber prices in many [...]

Latvia: Plywood prices dropped sharply this year

A total of 72,900 m³ of plywood was exported from Latvia in the first quarter, a decrease of 24 [...]