Wood Energy

Current trends in the global pellet market

    In 2020, wood pellet production in Europe was up 4% y-o-y and was 34 [...]

French wood industry gets pivotal role in plans to achieve climate objectives

As part of the France 2030 plan and to enable France to achieve its climate objectives, the wood industry will [...]

Pellet production at record levels in Germany

    At 861,000 tonnes (t), in the third quarter of 2021 Germany again produced a quantity [...]
October 28, 2021 Latest Trends / Market Analysis / ...Wood Energy / Europe

Sweden leads opposition to EU Forest Strategy

The new 2030 Forest Strategy is triggering diplomatic clashes in the EU over who should be responsible for forest policy [...]

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.     [...]

Global shipping bottlenecks set to prolong supply chain turmoil

Tenfold jump in costs since start of pandemic squeezes importers and exporters    The closure of a [...]

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 [...]

EU Commission presents its climate package, European forest industry reacts

The European Commission presented the Fit for 55 plan on Wednesday, July 14. 13 legislative proposals are intended to help [...]

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 [...]