These results exceeded all expectations: the International Timber Fair Klagenfurt recorded 22,000 trade visitors this year (an increase of 5%). Increases were noted in particular in visitors from the countries of South-East Europe.
452 exhibitors from 22 nations presented at the timber fair in Klagenfurt from 26 to 29 August 2010, covering the themes of ‘wood, forestry, sawmills, transport, wood construction and bio-energy’. “Our trade fair was…
In Austria wood pellet prices were stable in August. According to the price survey of ProPellets Austria, prices for bulk goods in August were at € 206 per tonne, the same level they were in July.
Much earlier than last year, this year's order season for hardwood logs and sawlogs will start. Tentative orders in the last season and constraints during the log harvest due to the harsh winter of 2009/2010 have reduced wet storages at mills quickly.
The global pulp industry benefited from lower wood fiber costs and higher product prices in the 2Q/10. Wood chip and pulpwood prices fell the most in the US, Sweden, Finland, Australia and Eastern Canada. Both the softwood and hardwood wood fiber price indices (SFPI and HFPI) fell for the first time since early 2009, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly.
The German wood pellet production in the 2nd quarter remained at the level of recent years. According to the most recent survey of the German Fuel Wood and Pellet Association DEPV, from April to June around 410,000 tonnes of wood pellets (previous year: 430,000 tonnes) were produced.
In 2009 the Austrian wood industry, covering the complete value chain from forest up to paper and wood products, showed a trade surplus of € 3.08 billion.
A new law for the modernization of agriculture adopted in France on July 13th affects also the forestry sector as it targets to intensify the timber mobilization in small private-owned forests.
Metso will supply a new bleached chemi-mechanical pulping (CTMPc) line to Chenzhou Yunong Paper Co. Ltd in Hunan province, China. The line will have a capacity of 500 tonnes a day and is to be commissioned in the second quarter of 2011. The order value is below EUR 10 million. The order is included in Paper and Fiber Technology's Q2 orders received.
The delivery from Metso involves a conical disc high consistency refiner, low consistency refiners, screens in the screen…
The wood pellets market has been growing strongly over the past few years – both in Germany and abroad. While Germany is able to cover its own pellets demand from domestic production, countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Italy are forced to import the fuel. For this reason, the international pellets trade has been growing continuously. New pellets production facilities in Canada, the United States, Russia, South Africa or Australia have been springing up, offering their products on the…
The German Pellets GmbH, Europe's largest producer of wood pellets and animal bedding products, is going to supply North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) with pellets. Within the next days the first wood pellets will run off the production line in the new plant of the NRW Pellets GmbH in Erndtebrueck, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy and German Pellets.
