Austria: Production capacity for pellets grows by 50%

At a total of 102,593 t (Jan.-March 2021: 178,604 t), Germany exported almost 43% fewer wood pellets in the first quarter of 2022 than it did in the same period of last year. Provisional figures from Destatis, the federal statistics office in Wiesbaden, show that the imports also turned out to be roughly 12% lower at...

A further rise in installations of pellet-operated heating systems, the desire of many end customers for early stockpiling and the cancellation of firmly scheduled imports are ensuring an above-average demand for A1 pellets on Central European markets even into the middle of May 2022. Due to the sustained high level of...

A total of 824,000 t (Jan.-March 2021: 802,000 t) of pellets were produced in Germany in the first quarter of 2022, 2.7% more than last year. According to the figures published by the Germany fuelwood and pellet association (DEPV – Deutscher Energieholz- und Pellet-Verband) on 4 May, the output was thus lower than in...