the timber network

User name :
Password :

Forgot your password?

Not a member yet?

Wood energy

• May 22, 2012 17:21

  
  

  S. Korean companies planning biomass power plants in Fiji

  Two South Korean renewable energy companies are pursuing the option of investing in biomass power plants in Papua New Guinea and Fiji... [more...]

• May 18, 2012 19:55

  
  

  Germany: Pellet production reaches record

  The German Association for Wood Fuel and Pellets (DEPV: Deutsche Energieholz- und Pellet-Verband) announces that 490 000 pellets were made during the period January 2012-March 2012. The pellet production has never been so high in the first quarter. In 2012 the... [more...]

• May 16, 2012 14:06

  
  

  GUNNS sells Heyfield hardwood sawmill

  GUNNS Ltd has sold the Heyfield hardwood sawmill to a Melbourne based consortium for an undisclosed amount believed to approximately $28 million. The sale is expected to complete in late May 2012 [more...]

• April 25, 2012 15:28

  
  

  China to Surpass Japan as Largest Hardwood Chip Importer

  Chinese hardwood chip imports will double from 6.3 million Bone Dry Metric Tons (BDMT) in 2011, to 12.7 million BDMT in 2016. Japan's imports of hardwood chips will drop from 9.9 million BDMT to 8.6 million BDMT in the same period, the lowest volume of imports since 1993. This is the forecast... [more...]

• 

  April 19, 2012 16:05

  
  

  PELLETS & BRIQUETTES-EXPO, Bydgoszcz, Poland

  The Pomorze and Kujawy Fair Centre invites you to visit the 10th jubilee edition of the International Fair of Devices and Technologies for Pellet and Briquette Industry „PELLETS-EXPO & BRYKIET-EXPO”, which will be held on 29 to 31 May 2012 in Bydgoszcz in the Łuczniczka hall at ul. Toruńska 59, at 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The leading motto of the jubilee edition shall be „CHEAP HEATING”. [more...]

• April 17, 2012 06:40

  
  

  Kuehne + Nagel: low margins, increased costs and antitrust fine impact results

  Despite further volume growth, cost increases, lower margins in the forwarding business and an antitrust fine of CHF 65 million imposed by the European Commission led to unsatisfactory results for the first quarter 2012. At CHF 4,834 million, turnover remained stable compared to... [more...]

• April 13, 2012 17:54

  
  

  Dong plans to turn three Fossil Plants to Wood

  The Danish energy company Dong Energy plans to convert three more coal-and gas-fired power plants into wood pellet fired plants by 2015. The conversions to wood will more than double DONG Energy's use to 2.5 million tons a year. Now sourcing most of its biomass from the Baltic's, Poland and Russia, Dong is also looking at other areas including... [more...]

• April 05, 2012 09:24

  
  

  US and Canada pellet exports to Europe reached a record high

  Exports of wood pellets from North America to Europe reached a record of over two million tons in 2011, according to analysis reported in the North American Wood Fiber Review. Canada has long been the main exporter of pellets but in the second half of 2011, the US caught up and exported an equal volume to Canada. [more...]

• March 27, 2012 19:11

  
  

  Pfleiderer AG to file for insolvency

  The Higher Regional Court, Frankfurt/Main, has rejected the application for release submitted by Pfleiderer Finance B.V., in connection with the lawsuits filed by creditors against the resolutions adopted by the Creditors’ Meeting on June 20, 2011. This means that the resolutions adopted with a large majority of votes cannot be... [more...]

• March 26, 2012 15:00

  
  

  Wood chip exports from Australia fell and Vietnam becomes largest exporter

  Vietnam has taken over Australia as the world’s largest supplier of wood chips to pulp mills in Asia. In 2011, Vietnam exported 5.4 million tons, triple that in 2007, as reported in the Wood Resource Quarterly. The good news for wood chip exporters in both Vietnam and Australia has been the steady increase in demand for hardwood chips from China. Seattle, USA. Wood chip trade flows in the Pacific Rim have changed substantially the past five years. Vietnam, Chile, Thailand and Uruguay have all been increasing [more...]