Biofuel

In January-February 2021, the volume of wood pellets output in Russia grew by 17.7% YoY, reaching 343,000 tons, as reported by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

Russian Timber Journal 02-2021: interview with Russ Taylor, President of Russ Taylor Global; Russian sawn timber market in 2020, outlook for 2021; Metsä Fibre going ahead with € 1.6 billion Kemi bioproduct mill investment; Segezha Group acquires Novoyeniseiskiy Wood Chemical Complex; Uvadrev places an...

The U.S. exported 599,624.2 metric tons of wood pellets in January, up from both 564,826.2 metric tons in December and 500,904 metric tons in January 2020, according to data released by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service on March...

The project was presented by Alexey Panov, Minister of Forestry of the region, together with representatives of the Association of Timber Enterprises of the Central Region of the Krasnoyarsk Region. The plant is planned to be built in...

A container tipper has been put into operation at the wood pellet production site of Velsky LPK (Russia). It will help to increase the container loading volume to 21 tons, as well as improve the quality of wood...

Drax has agreed to acquire Pinnacle Renewable Energy (Pinnacle), through its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary Drax Canadian Holdings in a deal worth C$741m ($582m). Pinnacle operates 2.5 million tonnes of biomass capacity at sites in Western Canada and the...

The production line with a capacity of 2 tons of wood pellets per hour has become a part of a large investment project for integrated wood processing with a capacity of at least 90,000 m³ per year being...

Pellet prices in Switzerland continued their upward trend on average in February 2021. On average, they reach a value of 360.2 CHF / t (+ 0.3%) – after an increase of 0.2% to 359.3 CHF / t in January. Compared...

Sawmill 25 (part of Titan Group) increased the output of export sawn timber by 6% YoY to 887,000 m³ in 2020. The output of wood pellets amounted to 193,000 tons in the same year.

Even with the double-digit freezing temperatures in parts of Germany in February, wood pellets remain at a stable price. In the northeast region it is highest due to the weather. As the German Pellet Institute (DEPI) reports, a ton of...

Sudoma Sawmill (Pskov region, Russia) starts production of RUF wood briquettes. The factory’s annual production capacity for this product is ready to reach 6,100 tons. The manufacturing was established within a priority investment project which had required about...

In January 2021, the volume of wood pellets output in Russia grew by 22.4% YoY, reaching 178,000 tons, as reported by Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).