Nippon Paper and Sojitz create joint venture for biomass-based power generation company
Nippon Paper Industries has agreed with Sojitz Corporation to jointly establish a power generation company Yufutsu Energy Center, LLC and [...]
May 21, 2019
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Vietnam significantly increases pellet exports to Japan
Vietnam has increased 253.6% y-o-y pellet exports to Japan in first quarter of 2019 to [...]
May 8, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Less Malaysian plywood goes to Japan
Japan expects its imported volume of plywood from Malaysia to further decline this year because of increasing prices [...]
April 5, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood-based Panels / Asia & Middle East
Sluggish markets in US, China, UK and Japan generate low global lumber trade
In 2018, global trade of lumber fell for the first time in five years, with total trade down 7% year [...]
April 2, 2019
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Forestry / Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East / China / Europe / North America
Japan’s wood pellet hunger to be fed with N. American supplies
Japan's consumption of wood pellets continues to increase significantly in the wake of the Fukushima [...]
March 26, 2019
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Japan aims to boost imports of wood pellets from Canada
Japan is studying the potential for a seismic increase in wood pellet imports from western Canada [...]
February 11, 2019
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Japanese wood pellets imports set new record
Wood pellet imports in Japan reached a record 506,000 metric tons in 2017, and are expected to increase again [...]
December 21, 2018
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The imports of wood pellets in Japan went up by 50%
The Japanese Forestry Agency announced the statistics for wood pellet supply in Japan for 2017. Domestic [...]
October 23, 2018
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Japanese company targets the Russian wooden housing market
Iida, a Japanese wooden house construction company, is targeting the Russian market. Setting it sight on [...]
September 26, 2018
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Huge wood pellets plant to be built in Russia’s Far East by Russian-Japanese joint project
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Russia, the Russia-Japan Investment [...]
September 19, 2018
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