Archives: 2014

Italy wants to double vat on wood pellets

The Italian government plans to increase the VAT on wood pellets from a current 10% to 22%. With the new [...]

December 18, 2014

The price of wood pellets in Germany remains stable at a low level in December. As the German Energy Wood [...]

December 18, 2014

Sawlog prices were lower in the 3Q in most of the 20 regions that are the basis for the Global [...]

December 17, 2014

The recent rapid and significant depreciation of the yen since late October pushes cost of all the imported commodity sharply [...]

December 16, 2014

Portucel S.A informs that it will develop the construction of a wood pellet manufacturing facility in the United States [...]

December 16, 2014

Metsä Wood has signed a cooperation agreement with Itochu Group with the aim of increasing sales in the Asian market [...]

December 13, 2014

The Russian wood-based panel company Sveza Group complains that a decline in consumption in the Russian market along with [...]

December 11, 2014

Kährs Group, a Swedish wood and resilient flooring manufacturer, will increase hardwood flooring production capacity in the existing production [...]

December 10, 2014

Georgia-Pacific will invest approximately US$6 million at its Thorsby, Alabama, engineered lumber operations to expand production capacity of [...]

December 9, 2014

This week, German Pellets signed a further supply contract with a European power-plant operator. The contract has a term [...]

December 9, 2014