Archives: 2020

Forestry crisis in Ireland deepens as mills seek new supply

The owners of the Ireland's major sawmills have begun warning trade union officials of imminent extensive job losses because [...]

Germany gains market shares in China log imports

China Customs data shows that in the first half of this year China’s log imports totalled 19.68 million [...]

Global pellet producers negatively impacted by COVID-19 pandemic

75% of certified producers have been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.    A survey conducted [...]

EGGER invested EUR 300 million in the first half of the year

    The EGGER Group, with headquarters in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria, has completed the first half [...]

Vietnamese woodchip prices crash

Woodchip producers in many provinces of Vietnam are suffering from rapidly declining prices.    Last year the [...]

Record wood pellet production in Germany

Despite the corona crisis, in the first half of 2020, Germany produced 1.502 million tonnes of wood pellets, thus [...]

Siempelkamp delivers four new drum dryers to Highland Pellets

Büttner, the energy and drying systems subsidiary of Siempelkamp, will deliver four new drum dryers to the American pellet [...]

Latvia’s timber industry exports expected to fall this year; US market an opportunity

   The volume of exports of companies in the Latvian wood industry sector could decrease in general this year [...]

Chinese wood processing companies strongly impacted by slow demand abroad

     78% of China's wood processing companies currently are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, while [...]

China is now the leading market for Brazilian particleboard

In the first semester of 2020 (6M-2020) China became the main export market for the Brazilian particleboard / MDP (PB [...]