Biofuel

According to the Federal Customs Service, wood pellets export from Russia in January 2021 increased by 25.6% YoY to 178,700 tons. The main buyers of Russian pellets in January 2021 were: Denmark – 69,000 tons (+ 50.1%), South...

In March 2021, the average price of a ton of wood pellets in Austria fell by 4.9% YoY to €232 (purchase of 6 t), the portal propellets.at reports. Compared to February 2021, pellets decreased in price by 0.2%....

The price for wood pellets in Germany has increased in March, with different regional characteristics. According to the German Pellet Institute (DEPI), one ton (t) of pellets costs an average of €239.83 (purchase of 6 t). That is...

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.