Wood Energy

Germany: Record wood pellets production in the first half of 2018

    In the first half of 2018, around 1.18 million tonnes of wood pellets were produced [...]

Major US company quits wood pellet business

    Nearly a decade after entering the business of developing new wood pellet production machines, Astec Industries [...]

Austrian wood pellets more expensive in July

In July, consumer prices for ENplus A1 wood pellets in Austria increased slightly.     The average price [...]

Stora Enso upgrades Maxau mill in Germany

Stora Enso has decided to install a new steam turbine with a closed-loop cooling system and additional biomass storage [...]

Prices for wood pellets in Germany go down in July

Wood pellets price in Germany slightly fell during July 2018. Thus, the average price for ENplus A1 pellets reached EUR [...]

Brazil: Giant wood pellet plant to be build in Rio Grande do Sul

Fepam, the environmental protection agency in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, issued on Wednesday the environmental licence [...]

New 120,000 t/yr wood pellet plant to be build in France

On 21 June Moret Industries signed a contract worth approximately €50 million to supply a reversible plant for white and [...]

Costs for wood pellet producers in North America on the rise

Wood fiber costs for pellet producers in both Canada and the US were slightly higher in the 1Q/18 than [...]

Overview of the Vietnamese wood pellet market

The wood pellet exports from Vietnam have gone from nearly zero to approximately 2.75 million metric tonnes per year [...]