Market Analysis

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 [...]

Japan’s wood pellet hunger to be fed with N. American supplies

    Japan's consumption of wood pellets continues to increase significantly in the wake of the Fukushima [...]

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 [...]

Chinese importers in search for low-quality logs

    Total softwood log stocks increased across China during the Lunar New Year holiday period to just [...]

Russia plans to ban timber exports

    The Russian State Duma was submitted a law-in-draft on a long-term moratorium on [...]

17% rise in exports of wood pellets from US

The US exported 6.04 million metric tons of wood pellets in 2018, up approximately 17 percent when compared to [...]
March 18, 2019 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy

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 pellet prices fall sharply in the Baltic States

On February 27th and 28th, 2019, the European Pellets Conference which took place in Wels, Austria gathered around 660 participants [...]

New Zealand: Sawmill goes out of business due to high prices of logs exported to China

On February 27th and 28th, 2019, the European Pellets Conference which took place in Wels, Austria gathered around 660 participants [...]