Jan 19 2018
UK private owned utility Drax is to convert a fourth 645MW unit to 100 percent biomass firing at its Selby power plant. After conversion the unit will return to service in late 2018. The decision follows the results of a UK government consultation to control the cost of support for biomass under the Renewable Obligation […]
Aug 15 2017
PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 15.8.2017: EUR/MWh 26.39 (+0.57 from previous month), SEK/MWh 253.06 (+1.22 from previous month) Notable is the currency changes. Euro weakened against the Swedish krona for the first time this year and gave a downward push tot the SEK value and the opposite to the Euro value. PIX indexes are trademark registered, […]
Jul 5 2017
Volvo cars press conference announcing all cars will be electric from 2019 Volvo Announces ‘Historic End’ to Combustion Engine, All Cars Going Electric Volvo Cars announced Wednesday that every car it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking a “historic end” to the internal combustion engine. Volvo said it will launch five fully […]
Jun 26 2017
World Bioenergy Association is pleased to launch the Global Bioenergy Statistics report. This report is the 4th in a series of annual reports focusing on the development of bioenergy and renewables globally. The report shows that bioenergy continues to be the largest renewable energy source. Data shows that the share of renewables in the global […]
May 22 2017
On May 24 between 14:30 and 17:30 seven Russian industry speakers will at the wood working and forest industry exhibition at Ligna, Hannover, Germany, present Russian position in the pellets and lumber industry. The presentation will be held in Hall 26 Wood Industry Summit. Key items are The Russian Pellet market Olga Rakitova present a […]
May 18 2017
The cold spring has helped to keep the pellet price stable report Foex in their Nordic Pix Pellets price index for May 18. The Euro has strengthened by 0.7% against the Swedish Crown from March to April. This ment an upward pressure on the SEK value and the opposite to the Euro value. The new plant […]
May 15 2017
International Technology Group Andritzz has received an order from Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd., Asias largest paper manufacturer, to supply a total of five circulating fluidized bed boilers (Powerfluid) for utilization of in-house residual materials. The boilers will be installed at the company‘s locations in Taicang, Quanzhou, Yongxin, Chongqing, and Dongguan. Start-up is scheduled for […]
May 12 2017
Steinmüller Babcock Environment builds waste treatment centre in San Sebastian German Steinmüller Babcock Environment GmbH, a part of Nippon Steel, has won the contract for the construction of a waste treatment centre in San Sebastian, Spain, the capital of the province of Gipuzkoa in Basque. 200 000 ton waste per year will be treated and […]
May 9 2017
Veolia wins three energy contracts, including a biomass plant, with industrial clients in China for a total of €864 million Veolia will provide a suite of solutions. A €341 million contract is for the construction, operation and maintenance of a biomass plant in Hebei Province. The second is for financing and installing, managing and optimizing a steam production plant. The third […]
Apr 27 2017
British Drax utility and pellet producer has complete the purchase of the assets of the earlier German Pellets owned 450 000 t/y Louisiana Pellets production facility in Urania, Lousiana, USA. This following a court hearing. The auction price was $35,4mn. Drax is also interested in the other earlier american German Pellets plant Texas Pellets but […]
Apr 27 2017
The Pix Nordic Wood Pellet Index published in April and presenting March values show a declining price because of the so far mild winter. The supply demand balance in the pellet market has kept improving. Power plants in Europe have increased their pellet use and this has reduced spot volumes from the market. However political […]
Mar 21 2017
Grade Index Value Change Conf. interv. Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 27.61 – 0.11 27.33 -27,89 SEK/MWh 261,64 -2,01 Index is based on previous month’s data. For price conversion between price per ton and price per MWh, a coefficient of 4.8 is used, if not otherwise informed by the price provider. The average temperature […]
Mar 13 2017
The UK Think tank Chatham House has published misleading statements in the context of EU discussions about its energy future. The International Energy Agency Bioenergy Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA Bioenergy) has now attracted more than 125 academic signatories from both sides of the Atlantic who consider that this report does not present an objective overview of […]
Feb 23 2017
Biofuels accounted for 18.6 percent of all fuel supplied to vehicles operating in Sweden in 2016 according to preliminary statistics from Statistics Sweden and compiled by the Swedish Bioenergy Association (Svebio). Based on energy content, biofuels accounted for 18.6 percent of all fuel supplied to vehicles operating in Sweden in 2016. One in four litres […]
Feb 16 2017
The pellet boiler market in Austria 2016 was a quiet one, told Christian Rakos the manager of Austrian pelletsorgansiation Pro Pellets when he spoke at the Central European Biomass Conference in Graz in January. The conference CEBC attracted over 1 000 participants from 40 countries. In Austria only the year 2000 and 2007 have had a lower sale […]
Feb 10 2017
Undenatured ethanol for fuel use accounted for 51% of total exports in 2016, overtaking denatured fuel ethanol as the leading ethanol export product for the first time ever. Meanwhile, denatured ethanol for fuel use made up 43%. Denatured and 20 undenatured ethanol for industrial uses totaled 5%. An estimated 6.9% of total U.S. ethanol production […]
Dec 20 2016
The industrial pellet market in Europe has remained quiet PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 20.12.2016: EUR/MWh 27.33 (-0.04 from previous month), SEK/MWh 269.22 (+3.53 from previous month) The prices in the spot market are reported to remain on a low level. Drax’ units are still not running with their full capacity and Dong’s new power station […]
Nov 3 2016
UPM Paper ENA plans to reduce 305,000 tonnes of graphic paper capacity in Europe business.conbio.info/2016-11-03/ – UPM is planning to permanently reduce its graphic paper capacity in Europe by 305,000 tonnes. The capacity reductions are planned to take place in Austria and Germany, according to a statement from the company today. UPM plans to permanently close […]
Oct 13 2016
An innovative biogas digester developed in Kenya to improve the quality of life now spreads around the continent A flexible digester to produce high quality fertiliser and biogas creates several benefits for the local population? Less deforestation because biogas replace wood collection, better land productivity becausse the process residues are used as fertilisers and above all energy […]
Sep 22 2016
Bill Gates invests in biofuel specialist Renmatix business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ Business magnate and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has joined French oil giant Total in investing $14 million (€12.4m) in US biofuel specialist Renmatix. The company has developed a process that converts plant waste and biomass into sugars that can be converted into biofuels and bio versions of […]
Sep 22 2016
German Pellets two US pellet plants, combined capacity 1 million ton are for sale. business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ The two bankrupted German Pellets US pellet plants are now for sale. Their combined capacity is 1 million ton. Both are operating and producing pellets reports Argus Biomass market. In Urania, Louisiana, the Lousiana Pellets have in the summer restarted production […]
Sep 20 2016
European market for industrial pellets has remained stable. Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 27.27 + 0.20 26.05 ‐ 28.49 SEK/MWh […]
Sep 6 2016
Photo: Barbara J. Bramble heads the International Climate and Energy Program at the National Wildlife Federation. She has the chair of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials. RSB EU RED Re-Recognized by the European Commission Geneva, 6 September 2016 – RSB is pleased to announce its re-recognition by the European Commission. The decision was published by the Commission […]
Sep 1 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-09-01/ Malaysia and Indonesia plan to appoint an “Ambassador of Palm Oil” to promote the benefits of consuming palm oil products in the international market, reports Malaysia journal Daily Express. Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong, said anti-palm oil lobbying group has given a lot of misrepresentations about the edible vegetable […]
Aug 31 2016
Business.conbio.info/2016-08-31/ Food ingredient producer DuPont Nutrition & Health will soon be able to burn wood chips in the old coal boiler at its factory in Grindsted, Denmark. This will be the outcome of a conversion project delivered by B&W Vølund. It will mean not only cleaner energy but also a considerable amount of excess heat […]
Aug 30 2016
/inbio.biz/Lennart ljungblom/2016-08-30/ The steam exploded pellets, branded black pellets, are produced in Selma Alabama and shipped from Mobile to Port of Rouen and transported by train to the coal power plant Saint-Ouen in the north of Paris. In Paris will the main district heating operator, CPCU replace half of the coal for the production of heat and power. In spring the company inaugurated […]
Aug 24 2016
According to EIA data as analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association and reported by Biofuels Digest, US ethanol production averaged 1.029 million barrels per day, or 163 million liter daily (43.22 million gallons). That is up 11,000 b/d from the week before and tied for the largest total on record. The four-week average for ethanol production […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ Japan’s general trading companies are expanding supplies of fuel from biomass like wood chips, pellets etc. for power plants to meet an expected surge in demand from facilities set to start up in 2017 and 2018, a development encouraged by the country’s feed-in-tariff system reports Nikkei Asian review. Sojitz will begin production as early as […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ The price of wood pellets remains also in August on the stable low summer level. According to the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association e.V. (DEPV) pellets in Germany cost on average 222.54 EUR per tonne. This is 0.1 percent less than last month and 4 percent less than in August 2015. One kilogram of pellets costs […]
Aug 2 2016
Biomass generate 70 percent of Drax total power providing 20 percent of UK total business.conbio.info/Lennart Ljungblom/2016-08-02 The UK huge power group Drax reported July 26 in their half year financial report a large increase in pellet used for power generation, up from 36 percent in 2015 to 70 percent. However the company also reported EBITA for […]
Jul 31 2016
New database for North American power plants and pellet mills business.conbio.info/2016-07-31 Working with Ecostrat and other partners, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has developed this comprehensive database of wood to energy conversion facilitates in the United States and Canada. It covers power plants as well as wood pellet mills. Originally developed and hosted by the […]
Jul 31 2016
The prices for globally traded hardwood chips fell to a record low in May 2016, while softwood chip prices reached the highest level in seven months, according to the latest FOEX Chip Price Indexes Global trade of hardwood chips have trended upward for six years and totaled almost 24 million tons in 2015. By far, the two largest […]
Jul 8 2016
Stable price in Euro – increasing price in SEK according to FOEX Pellet Nordic CIF index by June. EUR/MWh 28.72 (‐ 0.11 ) Confidence interval: 27.84 ‐ 29.60 SEK/MWh 266.95 + 1.63 Foex reports that the Baltic pellet industry is expanding. The Swedish owned (Lifco group) Estonian Pellet plant and saw mill supplier Hekotek has […]
Jul 6 2016
business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom/2016-07-05 / German Pellets update – another plant sold – production will continue PLT Pellet Lohnfertigung Torgau GmbH is the new owner of the assets of German Pellets Sachsen GmbH in Torgau. The production will be restarted immediately according to the new owner. The administrator of the insolvency procecess Bettina Schmudde from Kanzlei […]
May 17 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-17 / Lennart Ljungblom PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 17.5.2016: EUR/MWh 28.83 (-0.11 from previous month), SEK/MWh 265.31 (-3.39 from previous month) In April, the temperatures in some parts of the Nordic countries were higher than on average, but in some parts the difference from the long-term average was only limited. Prices reported to us […]
May 11 2016
business.conbio.info Exportation of wood pellets from North America totaled 6.1 million tons in 2015, which almost four times as much as in 2010, as reported in the latest issue of the North American Wood Fiber Review. In the second half of 2015, export volumes from Southern Gulf ports were up almost 70%. UK and Japan […]
Apr 8 2016
April 21 2016: Please check updates about Viridis Energy: /Lennart Ljungblom business.conbio.info /2016-04-08 / Lennart Ljungblom Viridis Energy ceases operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. plant Viridis Energy has ceased operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. (OPC) plant due to recent structural concerns and a combination of other factors. According to the company, despite substantial upgrades over […]
Apr 6 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-06 / Lennart Ljungblom Amec Foster Wheeler supplies pellet combustion plant to Finland Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract to supply a 90 MWth biomass powder combustion plant for Finnish utility company Seinäjoen Energia Oy. The plant will be operated as back-up for a peak load district heating plant and increase capacity to 120 MWth. […]
Dec 15 2015
Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 29.83 + 1.04 29.57 – 30.09 SEK/MWh 277.82 + 8.67 After removing the highest and lowest 10% of the price quotes, the PIX Pellet Nordic index value increased in Euro-terms by 1.04 euros, or by 3.61%, ending at 29.83 EUR/MWh. The value increased also in […]
Dec 2 2015
UK Coal plant gets green light to burn wood pellets Another of Britain’s remaining coal-fired power plants is to be converted to burn wood pellets mainly shipped in from North America, after the European Commission approved a £1bn subsidy contract for the project. Lynemouth 420 MW power plant to be resurrected as a biomass plant […]
Dec 1 2015
Statkraft, a European renewable energy generator, has shipped over 3,000 tonnes of woodchips to a customer in Denmark. The consignment is the first woodchip cargo to be shipped from Statkraft’s new biomass trading hub which opened in August at the site of the former Södra Cell paper mill, located south of Oslo, Norway, at Tofte. […]
Dec 1 2015
Solvay Epicerol® Earns Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Certification Bangkok, 1 December 2015 – Solvay subsidiary Advanced Biochemical Thailand Co., Ltd. (ABT) has received certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) for the production of Epicerol®, a bio-based building block for renewable chemicals and resins. The certificate covers the manufacture of bio-based epichlorohydrin (ECH), using […]
Nov 25 2015
Europe remains most important market for electricity generation from solid biomass Even though subsidies are declining in Europe, it will remain the world’s most important market for biomass power plants, with 75 billion € to be invested within the next 10 years. The market in Asia is flagging at a high level and still shows […]
Nov 23 2015
Northeast Wood Products (NWP) is pleased to announce that construction on its newest manufacturing facility in Jasper, TN is nearly complete with production to begin in November. During this first phase, the plant will have the capacity to produce up to 125,000 tons of premium heat pellets annually, and the company anticipate it will double capacity […]
Oct 29 2015
Italy to reverse increased VAT tax on pellets back to 10 percent The VAT tax was raised to 22 percent in January 2015, but it was a misstake the we will correct says the economic development ministry. The change to 10 pc tax is included in the government’s draft financial law bill and will be […]
Oct 20 2015
UK: Renewables overtake coal in Q3 electricity generation The third quarter of 2015 saw a significant 31% increase in renewables generation from the same period in 2014, overtaking coal as the third largest contributor to the UK’s electricity generation, after gas and nuclear power. Figures included in the Q3 GB Electricity Market Summary, from energy […]
Oct 20 2015
Clariant: VW emissions scandal will boost biofuels Clariant, a Swiss specialty chemicals company, expects the Volkswagen diesel engine emissions scandal to give a boost to biofuels. Hariolf Kottmann, CEO of Clariant, says the company is spending €30 million each year to expand it bioethanol-from-straw production capacity and expects its profits from the business to grow […]
Oct 19 2015
In Germany the price of wood pellets is quite stable, but on a yearly basis falling, as shown by DEPI, the German Pelles Institute. The average cost for pellets as reported in October is 233.78 EUR per tonne, a slight increase since large month with 0.3 percent. But the price is 7 percent less than in October 2014. The price advantage […]
Oct 14 2015
Bioenergy 2015 – Fact book The Austrian Biomass Association (Österreichischen Biomasse-Verbandes) has with support from the Austrian Energy Agency produced the 6th Bioenergy Fact book. The pedagogic 60 page book has a huge number of illustrations and graphs and presents the most important and most current statistics regarding the energy and bioenergy situation i Austria. […]
Oct 14 2015
In October, the retail prices for wood pellets of the quality ENplus A1 increased slightly. The average price is currently at 378.90 CHF / t. This is 1% more than in September, but still 6.8% less than in October 2014th In euro terms, the price is 346.50 Euro / t. and thus 10.6% higher than […]
Oct 13 2015
In Baldwin, Maine 28 miles outside the city of Portland in the north eastern USA a 150 000 t/y pellet plant is under construction. Opening is planned to summer 2016. The plant is built on a 104-acre site owned by FE Wood & Sons, a 5th generation forest products company and also the owner of F.E.Wood Natural Energy (FEWNE) […]
Oct 5 2015
WOOD PELLET PRICE SEPTEMBER 2015 PRICE FOR BULK WOOD PELLETS The price survey done by proPellets Austria resulted in an average price of € 22.93€-Cent per kg of wood pellets or 4.68 Cent per kWh. – Compared to the previous year -5.7% – Compared to the previous month +/-0.0% Pellet Price Index PPI06: 128.94 Wood pellets presently […]
Jul 28 2015
Stora Enso to divest its Barcelona recycled fibre mill in Spain Helsinki, Finland, 2015-07-27 Stora Enso has signed an agreement to divest its Barcelona mill, which produces recycled-fibre based consumer board, to the private equity fund Quantum. The transaction is in line with Stora Enso’s strategy to focus its consumer board offering on high quality […]
Jul 1 2015
ANDRITZ to supply key equipment to the Pohang waste-to-energy plant, South Korea Graz, July 1, 2015. International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from POSCO E&C to supply key equipment for a 50-megawatt bubbling fluidized bed boiler fired with refuse-derived fuel for the greenfield waste-to-energy plant in Pohang, South Korea. Start-up is scheduled for […]
Jun 11 2015
South Korea is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for wood pellets, with imports soaring from 122,000 tonnes in 2012 to 1.85 million tonnes in 2014. Vietnam is the largest supplier of wood pellets to South Korea, with exports jumping from only 33,000 tonnes in 2012 to 745,000 tonnes in 2014. Through the first […]
Apr 29 2015
Local minister Mr Vogelsänger, EU coordinator Mrs Lichtenvort and VERBIO COO Mr Dr. Lüdtke Germany: Celluloce to Biogas for vehicles, plant commissioned by Verbio with funding from EU NER 300 Schwedt/Oder, April 15, 2015 VERBIO has successfully commissioned a major production site for the production of biomethane at Schwedt/Oder. The new plant uses a […]
Apr 22 2015
Metsä Group to build next-generation bioproduct mill in Äänekoski Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 21 April 2015 at 11.30 am Metsä Fibre, part of Metsä Group, has today made the decision to build a bioproduct mill in Äänekoski, Finland in the area of the existing pulp mill. The construction work will begin immediately, and the […]
Apr 21 2015
Pellet price in Euro recovered – Foex The latest FOEX Pix Nordic Pellet index reports increased price in Euro and slightly lower in SEK. After removing the highest and lowest 10% of the price quotes, the PIX Pellet Nordic benchmark increased in Euro terms by 0.30 EUR/MWh, or by 0.99% closing at 30.51 EUR/MWh and […]
Apr 7 2015
Contracts issued in UK for commercial-scale torrefaction reactors. Black Mountain Woodfuels has announced that it had raised sale contracts to build its first, TSI Inc designed, commercial-scale torrefaction reactor for Norfolk-based Chase Biomass, who intend to produce high-energy pillows and briquettes, as a drop-in replacement for coal, along with torrefied biocoal pellets for domestic and […]
Mar 8 2015
The two longest running wood pellet manufacturing companies in the U.S. merged, creating the largest residential wood pellet fuel producer in the United States. In the US, Lignetics and Bear Mountain Forest Products have completed a merger to create a company that will produce approximately 450,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets, making it the […]
Jan 20 2015
PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 20.1.2015: EUR/MWh 30.08 (-0.04 from previous month),confidence intervall 29,90 – 30, 26 SEK/MWh 282.88 (+4.62 from previous month) Pellet Market – The pellet market has been quite calm due to the mild winter in Europe. Hawkins Wright Forest Energy Monitor (FEM) reports that many European utilities have high stocks and therefore […]
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Jan 29 2018
Valmet to supply a waste-fired boiler to Shanying Huazhong Paper in China
Valmet and Shanying International Holdings Co., Ltd. have signed a contract regarding a delivery of a mill waste-fired CFB boiler plant to Shanying Huazhong Paper’s paper mill, in the city of Jingzhou in Hubei province, China. The new waste-to-energy boiler plant will supply electricity for the paper mill and enables the mill to utilize all of its […]
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