Keyword: Asia

European tropical wood imports impacted by supply issues

Looking at factors behind the sales trends, European importers earlier reported supply issues out of Asia due to an extended [...]

January 9, 2019

Doug Donaldson, B.C. Forests/Rural Development Minister, is taking a large forestry-sector delegation to three Asian countries this [...]

November 22, 2018

Western Europe has long been the world’s largest market for wood pellets used in heat and power production. But [...]

August 31, 2018

A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away from the European market [...]

August 30, 2018

A major structural change is underway in the African timber industry as operations are reoriented away from the European market [...]

August 23, 2018

The World Bank reconsidered forecast for logs and sawnwood in the recently updated Commodity Markets Outlook. [...]

May 16, 2018

Asia’s demand for biomass is growing rapidly. Wood pellet imports into South Korea and Japan have grown exponentially in [...]

May 10, 2018

The bioenergy market in Asia Pacific is still fairly immature compared to the European market. However, recent developments have led [...]

December 4, 2017

Increases in Vietnam’s wood pellet spot prices accelerated during the third quarter of 2017, boosted by strengthening Japanese and [...]

November 22, 2017

US hardwood exports maintained upward momentum in the first quarter of 2017, with a strong gain Southeast Asia (SEA) and [...]

July 13, 2017