US investment company completes acquisition of majority stake in Europe’s largest wood pellet company
Apollo Global Management Inc. has closed acquisition of 80% stake in AS Graanul Invest. The transaction [...]
November 16, 2021
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Drax to start construction on second satellite wood pellet plant
Drax Group has started construction on the second of three satellite wood pellet plants in Arkansas. [...]
September 23, 2021
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Europe’s largest wood pellet producer acquired by US investment fund
Apollo Global Management, Inc. announced that funds managed by its affiliates have agreed to acquire a majority stake in AS [...]
August 26, 2021
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Brussels aims to tighten rules on burning wood pellets
Brussels wants to tighten rules to prevent some forms of wood-burning energy from counting towards [...]
June 22, 2021
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Drax builds three new pellet plants in Arkansas
Drax Group will begin constructing the first of three new ‘satellite’ pellet plants in Arkansas. [...]
May 12, 2021
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Russian Sveza plans large investment in a new sawmill and pellet plant
Russian Sveza plans to invest 8.6 billion rubles (EUR 93.4 million) in the construction [...]
April 27, 2021
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Drax completed acquisition of Pinnacle Renewable Energy
British energy company Drax, which owns the world’s largest biomass power station, located in the United Kingdom and wood [...]
April 20, 2021
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Dutch to limit wood pellet subsidies, possibly signaling EU change
In a speedbump for the accelerating biomass industry in the European Union, the Dutch Parliament on February 25 voted to [...]
March 16, 2021
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European imports of energy wood fall for the first time in 20 years
After nearly 20 years of almost continuous growth, the value of energy wood imported to the [...]
March 15, 2021
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Current trends in Russia’s wood pellet market
About 3 million tons of wood pellets were produced in Russia in 2020. The output growth [...]
March 3, 2021
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