Companies in Japan changed to wood pellets to clean-up coal power
Companies in Japan are currently developing some biofuels which can be burned together with coal, as [...]
February 12, 2018
Companies in the timber industry / Latest Trends / ...Market Analysis / Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Japan adjusts biomass subsidies due to increased demand
Japanese regulators announced at the end of 2017 about plans to stop the issuance of set price Feed-in-Tariff [...]
February 7, 2018
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Andritz delivers biomass boiler to new Japan wood pellet plant
Austrian woodworking technology company Andritz has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd [...]
December 6, 2017
Companies in the timber industry / Wood Energy / ...Woodworking Machinery / Asia & Middle East / Europe
Japanese wood pellets imports up by almost 50% in 2016
In 2016, Japan’s imports of wood pellets increased 49 percent from the previous year to 347 thousand MT.  [...]
September 13, 2017
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Sweden searches for new opportunities in the rising Japanese wooden house building
New opportunities arise in the Japanese construction sector for the Swedish lumber. Swedish Forest Industry President, Carina Håkansson (in [...]
March 26, 2016
Market Analysis / Sawmilling / ...Wood Construction / Asia & Middle East / Europe
Japanese lumber demand expected to decrease
The Japanese Forest Agency made up demand projection of major wood products for the second half of this year. On [...]
August 16, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Sawmilling / Asia & Middle East
Japan logs exports up by 50%
Total volume of Japanese log export during January and May this year reached to 259,515 cbms, 47.5% more [...]
August 5, 2015
Market Analysis / Sawmilling / ...Asia & Middle East / China
Japan to open 33 biomass power plants
Japan has witnessed a surge in biomass power plants after FIT (feed in tariff) system was introduced in July 2012 [...]
May 7, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Asia & Middle East
Japan to run wood biomass in power generation facilities
In Japan, after FIT (feed in tariff) system was introduced in July 2012, many plans of wood biomass power generation [...]
January 19, 2015
Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy