Keyword: wood

Chinese orders to boost Vietnamese wood industry

China’s policy on focusing on their domestic market has prompted foreign importers to place more orders with Vietnamese enterprises [...]

“Building with wood” Conference in Brussels outlines the importance of wood as construction product

On 21 November the conference "Building with wood" was organised by CEI-Bois (European Confederation of Woodworking Industries), FIEC (European [...]

Södra invests into a pilot cross-laminated timber plant in Sweden

Södra decided to invest in a small cross-laminated timber (CLT) facility adjacent to its sawmill in Vär [...]

Södra sells Södra Wood Norway

Södra is preparing to sell its Norwegian operation, Södra Wood AS, to German company Sörnsen Holzleisten. The [...]

Asian market sees high wood pellet production levels and booming prices

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

Price of Austrian pellets going up this month

The average price of wood pellets in Austria has reached of 232.9 € per tonne of wood pellets or 4 [...]

Masisa to sell Brazil wood-based panel operations plant to Arauco

    Masisa announced the sale of its manufacturing operations in Brazil to Arauco (Chile), for USD 102 [...]

ENplus confirms leading role in wood pellet certification

      The European Pellet Council (EPC) in charge of ENplus management, announced a record year [...]
October 20, 2017 Market Analysis / Wood Energy / ...Europe

Vietnam’s wood product exports might hit $8 billion in 2017

    Vietnam's exports of wood and timber products is forecast to reach US$8 billion in [...]

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.  [...]