{"id":77305,"date":"2019-03-27T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tin.happy-projects.ro\/trends-central-european-wood-pellet-market\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:50:12","slug":"trends-central-european-wood-pellet-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/trends-central-european-wood-pellet-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in the Central European wood pellet market"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 27th and 28th, 2019, the European Pellets Conference took place in Wels, Austria.\u00a0Around 660 participants came to the event over the two days.\u00a0As always, there was an overview of the global pellet markets.\u00a0Europe is characterized by rising production and a simultaneous fear of supply shortages.\u00a0In the DACH countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), wood pellet production is rising steadily, although there are several problems in the future development of the pellet market.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Austria: Wood pellet production rising<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christian Rakos from proPellets Austria reported a 10% increase in production, and even 11% for ENplus pellets.\u00a0A total of 1.35 million tonnes of pellets were produced in Austria in 2018, including 1.17 million tonnes of ENplus pellets.\u00a0Consumption, however, stagnated at 960,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n

Exports have been rising rapidly since 2014 and are estimated at 740,000 tonnes in 2018.\u00a0By far the largest customer is Italy with about 650,000 tons.\u00a0<\/span>Due to the large amount of wood available due to storm and beetle, the import to Austria has declined.<\/p>\n

In order to prevent possible supply bottlenecks, proPellets has proposed to the responsible politicians the creation of a strategic reserve.\u00a0It should amount to 10% of the annual amount in the first half of December and 5% of the annual amount at the end of January.\u00a0The reason for the proposal are repeated supply bottlenecks and steadily declining stocks in the winter at dealers and manufacturers.<\/p>\n

Some Austrian states have banned the installation of oil heaters in new buildings.\u00a0This has further increased pellet demand, also because some people think oil heaters are completely banned.<\/p>\n

Boiler sales in Austria have halved since 2013.\u00a0Now work has begun on a national heat strategy.\u00a0proPellets focuses on the development of new requirements for the check of old heating systems in order to increase the demand for new boilers.<\/p>\n

Germany: lack of installers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Bentele, Managing Director of DEPV (German\u00a0energy-pellet\u00a0association)\u00a0\u00a0and DEPI (German\u00a0energy-pellet\u00a0institute), sees a number of factors responsible for the success of pellets.\u00a0These include a high and constant availability, low-emission furnaces, a wide range of applications, from the furnace to the combined heat and power plant and a high installation quality, which brings the quality of the pellets to the end customer.\u00a0Just the last point is the bottleneck in Germany, said Bentele.\u00a0There is a shortage of installers.<\/p>\n

Pellet production in Germany exceeded 2.4 million tonnes for the first time in 2018, and is expected to reach around 2.5 million tonnes in 2019.\u00a0Consumption stands at just over 2.1 million tonnes and is expected to reach just under 2.4 million tonnes in 2019.<\/p>\n

The number of installations is still unsatisfactory, according to Bentele.\u00a0These have hardly moved from the spot for several years.\u00a0In 2018, according to preliminary figures, there were 17,000 stoves, 16,000 boilers below 50 kW and 900 boilers over 50 kW.<\/p>\n

Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Switzerland, almost 50% is still heated with oil.\u00a0The pellet consumption in 2018 was 305,000 tonnes, only about one third of the consumption in Austria with a comparable population, as reported by Martina Caminada of proPellets Switzerland.\u00a070% of the pellets are produced domestically, including 85% ENplus pellets.\u00a0About 80,000 tons of pellets are imported, practically nothing is exported.\u00a0Currently the price is 360 CHF \/ t at 8 tons delivery quantity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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