{"id":99774,"date":"2026-08-31T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/?p=99774"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:59:49","slug":"pellet-prices-climb-across-europe-as-feedstock-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timberindustrynews.com\/ro\/pellet-prices-climb-across-europe-as-feedstock-tightens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pellet prices climb across Europe as feedstock tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wood pellet prices have risen sharply across several European markets ahead of the 2026\/27 heating season, with German bulk prices moving above EUR 420\/t, Polish A1 retail offers reaching the equivalent of more than EUR 600\/t and Baltic producers reporting substantial increases in both pellet and feedstock prices. The tightening is not confined to one region: Austria has also moved above EUR 400\/t, while Bosnia and Herzegovina is showing a widening gap between producer and retail levels.<\/p>\n

The market remains highly fragmented, but the direction during the summer has been unusually consistent. Germany and Austria are showing relatively concentrated bulk-price levels around EUR 400\u2013430\/t, Poland has developed a much wider spread between wholesale, pallet and individual bag prices, and Latvia remains cheaper at producer level despite some of the sharpest reported increases in raw-material costs. Estonia is dealing with a different version of the same pressure, with pellet producers competing directly with district-heating demand for wood chips and other biomass.<\/p>\n

The common denominator is the feedstock market. Reduced sawmill and secondary wood-processing activity has restricted the flow of clean sawdust, shavings and suitable chips at the same time as household purchasing accelerated during July and August. In the Baltics, export demand and district heating are adding competition for the same material. In Poland, rapid growth in the installed base of pellet and wood boilers has made the imbalance more structural.<\/p>\n

Global Wood Markets Info (GWMI) sees the present tightening primarily as a feedstock and supply-flexibility problem rather than a shortage of forest resources. The immediate constraint in several countries is the quantity and price of suitable residues reaching pellet plants at a time when buyers are trying to secure winter stocks earlier than usual. This leaves the European pellet market considerably more exposed to further increases if autumn demand remains strong or sawmill residue availability fails to improve.<\/p>\n

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European pellet market: selected August 2026 prices<\/div>\n
Selected household, retail and producer price indications<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Market<\/th>\nPrice<\/th>\nEUR\/t<\/th>\nMarket level<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Germania<\/td>\nEUR 427.72\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac427.72<\/td>\n6-t household delivery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Austria<\/td>\n40.37 cent\/kg<\/td>\n\u20ac403.70<\/td>\n6-t household delivery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poland<\/td>\nPLN 1,600\u20132,410\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac369\u2013555<\/td>\nA1 market offers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Poland retail<\/td>\nUp to PLN 2,666\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac614<\/td>\nHigh bagged retail offer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Latvia<\/td>\nEUR 300\u2013350\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac300\u2013350<\/td>\nProducer indications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Estonia<\/td>\nAround EUR 400\/t<\/td>\n~\u20ac400<\/td>\nMarket indication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bosnia \u2013 producer<\/td>\nBAM 550\u2013650\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac281\u2013332<\/td>\nProducer range<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bosnia \u2013 A1 retail high<\/td>\nBAM 895\/t<\/td>\n\u20ac458<\/td>\nRegistered retail offer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Europe \u00b7 August 2026<\/div>\n
Pellet prices show a wide regional spread<\/div>\n
Selected market benchmarks \u00b7 EUR per tonne<\/div>\n
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Poland \u00b7 high retail<\/span>
\n\u20ac614<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Bosnia \u00b7 A1 retail high<\/span>
\n\u20ac458<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Germania<\/span>
\n\u20ac428<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Austria<\/span>
\n\u20ac404<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Estonia<\/span>
\n~\u20ac400<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Latvia \u00b7 producer range<\/span>
\n\u20ac300\u2013350<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Germany: summer prices break sharply higher<\/h2>\n

Germany provides one of the clearest indications of how quickly the European pellet market changed during the summer. The DEPI benchmark for a six-tonne residential delivery reached EUR 427.72\/t<\/strong> in August, almost 10% above July and substantially above the levels recorded during the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

The speed of the increase is more significant than the absolute price. The national benchmark had fallen to EUR 376.77\/t in June before rising to EUR 388.09\/t in July and then jumping by almost EUR 40\/t in August. Compared with an August 2025 price of EUR 310.82\/t, the market is now more than EUR 115\/t higher.<\/p>\n

Regional differences remain relatively limited. Six-tonne deliveries averaged EUR 419.19\/t in northern and eastern Germany<\/strong>, EUR 422.97\/t in central Germany<\/strong> and EUR 429.45\/t in the south<\/strong>. Prices for larger 26-tonne orders were EUR 406.34\/t, EUR 402.32\/t and EUR 415.42\/t respectively, indicating that the increase is visible across the wholesale-distribution chain rather than being confined to small household orders.<\/p>\n

Market indications during the fourth week of August put loose pellets close to EUR 425\/t, around EUR 65\/t above the end of June. Bagged pellets had moved toward EUR 495\/t<\/strong>, an increase of roughly EUR 90\/t over the same period. Delivery times extended to around 29 days as purchasing activity increased after the summer holiday period.<\/p>\n

DEPI has attributed much of the increase to reduced availability of sawdust and other sawmill residues. Weak construction demand continues to constrain German lumber production, and lower sawmill throughput is feeding directly into the pellet market. Raw-material costs increased noticeably during the first half of the year, with pellet producers facing greater competition for the volumes that remain available.<\/p>\n

This creates an unusual market configuration. Germany does not face a shortage of forests or nominal pellet-production capacity, but the economics of processing logs into lumber determine how much sawdust reaches pellet plants. Weak construction therefore depresses one part of the wood industry while tightening another.<\/p>\n

The question for early autumn is whether the late-summer buying wave has already covered a large part of household winter requirements. July brought the first clear stocking increase, followed by another acceleration in the second half of August. If those orders represent demand brought forward from September and October, the current increase could lose momentum before winter.<\/p>\n

German market participants are therefore not necessarily expecting another uninterrupted increase from current levels. A period of sideways trading during September followed by some easing in October or November remains possible, although the downside is limited as long as residue prices stay high.<\/p>\n

Despite the summer increase, pellets remain below the extreme levels seen during the 2022 energy crisis. At the August benchmark, DEPI estimates that pellet heating retains a cost advantage of around 35% against heating oil and 24% against natural gas.<\/p>\n

Poland: Europe's widest pellet price spread<\/h2>\n

Poland is showing both stronger price pressure and much greater dispersion than Germany or Austria. A1 offers during August stretched from around PLN 1,600 (\u20ac369)<\/strong> to approximately PLN 2,410 (\u20ac555)\/t<\/strong>, while individual bags sold through major retail chains moved well beyond those levels.<\/p>\n

At the lower end of the retail spectrum, Sylva A1 at Leroy Merlin was offered at PLN 26.48 per 15-kg bag, equivalent to roughly PLN 1,765\/t (\u20ac407)<\/strong>. KNAP ENplus A1 at PLN 35.90 corresponded to around PLN 2,393\/t (\u20ac551)<\/strong>. The difference between two A1 products sold through the same retail chain illustrates how fragmented pricing has become.<\/p>\n

Castorama offers were higher still. Several A1 products at PLN 37.98 per 15-kg bag corresponded to PLN 2,532\/t (\u20ac583)<\/strong>, while Ackerman Premium ENplus A1 at PLN 39.98 per bag implied approximately PLN 2,665\/t (\u20ac614)<\/strong>. Similar high-end prices were visible at other retail chains during late August.<\/p>\n

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Poland \u00b7 August 2026<\/div>\n
A1 pellet prices stretch above \u20ac600\/t at retail<\/div>\n
Selected market and retail offers<\/div>\n
\n
Low A1 market offer<\/span>
\nPLN 1,600 (\u20ac369)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Leroy Merlin Sylva A1<\/span>
\nPLN 1,765 (\u20ac407)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
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\n
Pallet market average<\/span>
\nPLN 2,355 (\u20ac543)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Castorama A1<\/span>
\nPLN 2,532 (\u20ac583)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
High bagged retail<\/span>
\nPLN 2,665 (\u20ac614)<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wholesale and full-pallet material remains substantially cheaper. Late-August pine pellet offers could still be found around EUR 390\u2013400\/t including VAT, leaving a spread of more than EUR 200\/t against some individual bag prices. Part of the difference comes from distribution and retail costs, but the size of the spread also shows the premium attached to immediate small-volume availability.<\/p>\n

The Polish competition authority UOKiK investigated the market after the sharp increase triggered public concern. It found no evidence that collusion or restrictions of competition were driving prices. Its assessment instead pointed to a structural imbalance between rapidly expanding pellet demand and the domestic production and feedstock base.<\/p>\n

Around 450,000 Polish households<\/strong> now use pellet or wood boilers, approximately 90,000 more than in 2023. The scale of the change is also visible in the Czyste Powietrze programme: in 2025, 77% of heating-system replacement applications involved pellet or wood boilers.<\/p>\n

That additional installed capacity entered the market while the supply side was moving in the opposite direction. Lower activity in sawmilling, furniture production and other wood-processing sectors has reduced the availability of clean residues. Lower timber sales from the State Forests have also been identified as part of the upstream pressure.<\/p>\n

The disappearance of Belarusian pellets and sawdust from normal trade has added another constraint. Poland previously had access to relatively inexpensive material from across its eastern border, providing an additional source when domestic demand increased. Replacement supply now increasingly comes from within the EU, particularly the Baltic states, which pushes Polish demand directly into markets with their own domestic heating requirements.<\/p>\n

This makes Poland different from markets where the current tightness could largely disappear once summer stocking ends. A slowdown in September purchasing may reduce the retail spike, but it does not remove the underlying increase in pellet-consuming capacity. Unless domestic feedstock supply improves, Poland is likely to remain one of Europe's firmest markets through the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n

Baltics: export demand collides with domestic heating needs<\/h2>\n

The Baltic pellet market is particularly important because Latvia and Estonia sit on both sides of the European balance: they are large producers and exporters, but also markets with substantial domestic biomass consumption. When Central European buying accelerates, the same tonnes are increasingly contested by local households, district-heating systems and export customers.<\/p>\n

Latvia provides the clearest example of the summer tightening. Producer indications reached around EUR 300\u2013350\/t<\/strong>, compared with roughly EUR 220\/t a year earlier. The move was sufficiently strong for local industry participants to describe increases of around 50% in parts of the market.<\/p>\n

A producer in Vidzeme was quoting approximately EUR 350\/t<\/strong> during August and had temporarily closed its normal online ordering channel while existing customers were served through a queue. Buyers placing orders in mid-August were being told that deliveries might extend into early October.<\/p>\n

Another Latvian wood processor was offering a 975-kg pallet at EUR 350, equivalent to around EUR 359\/t<\/strong>, while waiting periods ranged from three weeks to one month. The company had temporarily shifted production priorities toward pellets because demand was substantially stronger than for some of its other biomass products.<\/p>\n

The movement in raw materials is more significant for the industry than the retail price itself. Premium-grade shavings and other clean residues suitable for A1 pellets were reported at around EUR 90\/t during the previous summer but above EUR 200\/t<\/strong> in August 2026. A doubling of feedstock cost on this scale leaves producers little room to absorb increases through margins.<\/p>\n

Latvian producers link the shortage directly to weaker activity in the wider wood-processing industry. Less sawmilling and secondary processing means fewer clean residues, while the material that remains available has several possible outlets. The issue is particularly acute for A1 output because producers cannot freely substitute lower-grade biomass when premium feedstock becomes scarce.<\/p>\n

Polish purchasing amplified the imbalance. Latvian industry representatives reported strong buying from Poland during the first part of the summer as traders and retailers tried to build stocks before the heating season. This effectively transferred part of Poland's domestic deficit into the Baltic market.<\/p>\n

Plant maintenance also contributed to the July and early-August squeeze. Several producers traditionally use the summer period for maintenance lasting two or three weeks. With factories returning to full operation and Polish stocking potentially slowing, Latvian suppliers see scope for the market to stabilise during autumn rather than continuing the same rate of increase.<\/p>\n

That prospect has not prevented government concern. Latvia's authorities called on domestic manufacturers to prioritise household supply and warned that stronger measures could be considered if local availability deteriorated further. The intervention illustrates the tension inherent in a major exporting market during a period of regional shortage: every additional tonne retained domestically is a tonne no longer available to buyers elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n

Estonia faces a related but somewhat different balance. Pellet plants compete directly with district-heating systems for chips and other biomass, and wood fuels account for a large share of fuel consumption in the heat sector. This gives industrial heat demand considerably more influence over the pellet feedstock market than in some Central European countries.<\/p>\n

Market indications around EUR 400\/t<\/strong> put Estonian pellet prices above Latvian producer levels and close to the German and Austrian residential benchmarks. Producers have reported increasingly difficult access to chips, with district-heating buyers capable of absorbing large volumes when preparing for the winter season.<\/p>\n

Energy costs add another element to Estonia's winter exposure. Pellet production requires substantial drying, milling and pressing, making electricity prices relevant at precisely the point when winter energy demand is also rising. A simultaneous increase in electricity and biomass costs would quickly move production economics higher.<\/p>\n

The Baltic states have also lost part of the marginal supply that previously arrived from Russia. The region remains a major producer and exporter, but it no longer has access to the same additional low-cost material when export orders, district heating and residential demand increase simultaneously.<\/p>\n

For the wider European market, this makes developments in Latvia and Estonia disproportionately important. Poland increasingly looks to the Baltics when domestic supply tightens, while Western European buyers remain active in the same export pool. If Baltic household demand stays strong or governments encourage producers to retain more output locally, the pressure is immediately transmitted west and south.<\/p>\n

Austria: prices rise as normal summer seasonality weakens<\/h2>\n

Austria provides a useful comparison with Germany because both are mature residential pellet markets with established distribution systems and long-running price benchmarks. In August, the Austrian price for a typical six-tonne household order stood at around 40.37 cents\/kg, or EUR 403.70\/t<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That leaves Austria around EUR 24\/t below the German August benchmark, a relatively modest difference given the much larger price dispersion visible further east. The two markets are therefore showing broadly similar Central European pricing despite differences in national production and distribution structures.<\/p>\n

The more interesting Austrian signal is the seasonal pattern. Over the long term, pellet buyers have generally been able to secure their most attractive prices during spring and early summer. April and May prices have typically been around 5\u201310% below autumn and winter levels, encouraging households to fill stores before distributors become busy.<\/p>\n

That pattern is becoming less reliable in 2026. Instead of continuing to weaken during the storage season, prices turned higher as the summer progressed. The August benchmark increased again month on month, despite the fact that sustained heating demand had not yet begun.<\/p>\n

Austria therefore reinforces the German signal: the summer increase cannot be explained solely by an isolated retail shortage in Poland or by temporary Baltic export pressure. Central European bulk markets are also responding to higher feedstock costs and stronger-than-normal stocking activity.<\/p>\n

The Austrian pellet industry is closely integrated with domestic sawmilling, particularly in the country's large softwood-processing regions. That normally provides a substantial base of sawdust and other residues. When sawmill operating rates weaken, however, pellet plants face the same problem as their German counterparts: nominal processing capacity remains available, but fewer residues are generated.<\/p>\n

This connection becomes more relevant when lumber markets are weak for an extended period. Pellet production cannot fully compensate for lower sawmill throughput because increasing residue demand does not itself generate additional sawdust. The residue supply responds first to lumber production, not to pellet prices.<\/p>\n

Austria has so far avoided the extreme downstream spread visible in Poland. Bulk-market pricing remains relatively orderly, and the difference with Germany is small. That suggests a tighter but still functioning market rather than a shortage-driven retail dislocation.<\/p>\n

The August benchmark nevertheless leaves relatively little of the traditional summer discount for households buying ahead of winter. If feedstock costs remain high through September, Austria could enter the heating season from a substantially higher starting point than in 2025 even without a further surge in household demand.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the mature storage structure of the Austrian market could help limit further increases once households complete their purchases. The balance therefore looks closer to Germany than to Poland: expensive feedstock provides support, but a decline in autumn ordering could remove some of the immediate upward pressure.<\/p>\n

Bosnia: producer and retail prices move further apart<\/h2>\n

Bosnia and Herzegovina remains significantly cheaper at producer level than Germany, Austria or the highest Polish retail market, but the internal price spread has widened substantially ahead of winter.<\/p>\n

Producer indications in the Federation have been around BAM 580\u2013650\/t (\u20ac297\u2013332\/t)<\/strong>, while prices in Republika Srpska have generally been reported around BAM 550\u2013600\/t (\u20ac281\u2013307\/t)<\/strong>. These levels still position Bosnia as a relatively competitive producing market.<\/p>\n

Retail prices tell a different story. Officially registered A1 offers have reached BAM 895\/t (\u20ac458\/t)<\/strong>, while A2 material has appeared as high as BAM 840\/t (\u20ac429\/t). Other registered offers closer to BAM 619\u2013620\/t, around EUR 316\u2013317\/t, show just how wide the spread has become even within the same domestic market.<\/p>\n

Timing has been particularly important. Households that secured pellets during spring reportedly paid around BAM 500\u2013550\/t. At BAM 525\/t, a four-tonne winter purchase costs BAM 2,100, compared with BAM 3,580 at the highest BAM 895\/t retail level. The difference is significant enough to affect household purchasing behaviour and encourage earlier stocking in subsequent seasons.<\/p>\n

Bosnia therefore provides another example of why producer quotations alone do not describe the market entering winter. Production remains relatively competitive, but local distribution, availability and late-season buying can create a much higher consumer price without a comparable move at the factory gate.<\/p>\n

Residue supply becomes the central constraint<\/h2>\n

Across Germany, Austria, Poland and Latvia, the strongest common signal is the increasing value of clean residues. The European pellet market has considerable installed production capacity, but the quantity of suitable feedstock moving through that capacity is becoming the more important variable.<\/p>\n

Sawmill economics are central to that balance. Lower construction activity reduces demand for softwood lumber, weaker lumber demand reduces sawmill operating rates, and fewer operating hours generate less sawdust and fewer shavings. The pellet market therefore loses supply precisely when weak construction is putting pressure on other parts of the wood industry.<\/p>\n

The same mechanism extends into secondary processing. Furniture, planing and other woodworking operations generate clean residues particularly suitable for premium pellets. Reduced activity in those sectors removes another source of material.<\/p>\n

The effect is strongest for A1 producers because feedstock substitution is limited. Industrial pellet manufacturers and large energy users can work with a wider range of biomass qualities, while residential-grade production requires tighter control over ash content and contamination.<\/p>\n

This helps explain why pellet prices can remain firm even in regions where sawlog markets themselves are not particularly tight. Standing timber availability and pellet feedstock availability are related, but they are not interchangeable. What matters for pellet producers is how much wood is actually being processed and what residual stream that processing generates.<\/p>\n

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European pellet market \u00b7 2026<\/div>\n
What is tightening the market<\/div>\n
Supply and demand conditions entering the heating season<\/div>\n
Supply<\/div>\n
\n
Clean sawmill residues<\/span>
\nTighter<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Lower wood-processing throughput<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Eastern marginal supply<\/span>
\nReduced<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Russian and Belarusian flows no longer balance EU demand<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Demand<\/div>\n
\n
Household stocking<\/span>
\nAccelerated<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Purchasing concentrated in July and August<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Competition for biomass<\/span>
\nHigher<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Pellets, district heating and industrial users<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
Upside risk<\/div>\n
Residue supply stays tight<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Relief scenario<\/div>\n
Summer stocking fades<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The missing marginal tonne<\/h2>\n

The disappearance of normal Russian and Belarusian biomass flows remains particularly important at the margin. Those volumes never accounted for the whole European balance, but they offered an additional source of relatively inexpensive supply when consumption increased in Poland, the Baltics, the Nordics or Central Europe.<\/p>\n

Without that buffer, incremental demand is increasingly met by material that already has another potential buyer. Latvian pellets can be sold domestically, into Poland or further west. Estonian chips can move into pellet production or district heating. Central European sawmill residues compete with panel plants, energy producers and other industrial consumers.<\/p>\n

This does not mean that Europe has lost enough physical supply to create a permanent shortage. It means that the marginal tonne has become more expensive and harder to redirect. When several markets begin buying simultaneously, prices respond more quickly because there is less uncommitted material available to absorb the increase.<\/p>\n

The effect is strongest in Eastern and Northern Europe, where historical Russian and Belarusian flows were more important. Poland's current reliance on Baltic supply is one example of how the regional trade pattern has changed since 2022.<\/p>\n

Summer stocking may determine the autumn market<\/h2>\n

The immediate uncertainty for September and October is how much winter demand has already been pulled forward into the summer.<\/p>\n

German purchasing accelerated during July and again after the summer holiday period despite rising prices. Latvia has reported similar behaviour, with some households taking larger quantities than usual and Polish buyers accumulating significant stocks earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

If those purchases represent most of the normal autumn stocking requirement, order volumes should fall noticeably during September and October. Latvia could respond first because plant maintenance has ended and some of the strongest Polish purchasing may already have passed. Germany could move sideways before seeing some price relief later in autumn.<\/p>\n

Austria could follow a similar path. The market is expensive by normal summer standards, but its mature household storage structure means that demand can decline quickly after residential tanks have been filled. A reduction in orders would not immediately reverse higher feedstock costs, but it could prevent another large increase before winter.<\/p>\n

Poland is less straightforward. The increase in installed biomass heating capacity means that even a decline in late-summer stocking does not remove the underlying demand-feedstock imbalance. Retail prices above EUR 600\/t may correct as immediate scarcity eases, but the structural floor for the Polish market appears higher than it was several years ago.<\/p>\n

A cold start to the heating season remains the main upside risk across all of these markets. If household stores are less complete than producers assume, renewed simultaneous purchasing in October would meet a supply chain already carrying expensive feedstock and limited surplus inventories.<\/p>\n

Europe enters the heating season with less supply flexibility<\/h2>\n

The European pellet market remains fragmented, but the direction of travel is increasingly consistent. Germany is above EUR 420\/t, Austria above EUR 400\/t, Estonian indications are close to the same level and Polish retail offers extend well beyond EUR 500\/t. Latvia remains cheaper at producer level, but feedstock inflation there is among the strongest reported in Europe.<\/p>\n

The key change is reduced supply elasticity. Pellet plants may have sufficient installed capacity, but the clean residue stream needed to operate that capacity is tighter. Increasing pellet prices cannot immediately create additional sawdust when sawmills themselves have no reason to increase lumber production.<\/p>\n

Baltic exporters can provide additional tonnes to Central Europe, but doing so increasingly means taking material away from domestic households, district heating or another importing market. Poland's shortage therefore cannot be resolved in isolation; importing more pellets simply redistributes part of the pressure through the regional market.<\/p>\n

The base case for early autumn remains stabilisation rather than another uninterrupted price surge. A significant share of residential demand appears to have been pulled into July and August, plant availability should improve after maintenance and some Polish stocking demand may weaken.<\/p>\n

That does not imply a return to the prices seen in 2024 or early 2025. Feedstock costs have moved higher, the supply of clean residues remains constrained and the market has less access to cheap marginal imports. These factors should keep a higher floor under prices even if the immediate buying wave subsides.<\/p>\n

A mild September and October would give producers, traders and consumers time to rebuild inventories and could allow Latvian and German prices to soften. A cold start to the season would do the opposite, exposing the limited buffer now available across several regional markets at the same time.<\/p>\n

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GWMI outlook<\/div>\n
September should reveal whether the summer price surge was mainly a concentrated stocking shock or the beginning of a tighter 2026\/27 heating season. Latvia has the clearest potential for some relief as maintenance ends and Polish buying slows, while Germany and Austria could stabilise if household storage is already well advanced. Poland remains structurally tighter because pellet-consuming capacity has expanded faster than the domestic feedstock base. The principal upside risk for Europe is an early cold period arriving before residue availability improves.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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