Japan’s huge demand for wood pellets to be satisfied with North American supplies
Japan's consumption of wood pellets continues to increase significantly in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in [...]
March 14, 2019
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Chinese importers in search for lower-quality, cheaper logs
Total softwood log stocks increased across China during the Lunar New Year holiday period to just over 4.1 million [...]
March 14, 2019
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Russia might ban raw timber exports by 2035
The Russian State Duma was submitted a law-in-draft on a long-term moratorium on raw timber exports until [...]
March 12, 2019
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US exported 17% more wood pellets in 2018
The US exported 6.04 million metric tons of wood pellets in 2018, up approximately 17 percent when compared to [...]
March 12, 2019
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Spain: Wood pellet market in transition
The Spanish pellet market is growing rapidly,. Production capacity in Spain currently stands at 1.87 million tonnes per year [...]
March 12, 2019
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Global softwood lumber trade fell 7% in 2018
In 2018, global trade of lumber fell for the first time in five years, with total trade down seven percent [...]
March 12, 2019
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New Zealand sawmill shuts down, due to skyrocketing log prices paid by the Chinese
New Zealand's Waverley Sawmill based in South Taranaki, which has traded since at least 1932, has been sold and [...]
March 11, 2019
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Wood pellet prices in the Batic states in free fall
On February 27th and 28th, 2019, the European Pellets Conference which took place in Wels, Austria gathered around 660 participants [...]
March 11, 2019
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US softwood lumber prices fall at the beginning of March, but rising trade gives encouraging signals
Winter kept a grip on many regions and key markets, but sales of framing lumber in US picked up in [...]
March 11, 2019
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Eastern Europen countries boost timber imports from outside the EU
While there was some increase in imports by a few western European countries in 2018, eastern EU countries recorded much [...]
March 11, 2019
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