German sawmill residue prices have risen by almost 60 per cent since end of November

Germany’s sawmill residues markets have been increasingly influenced by higher energy prices since the beginning of the second quarter 2022. Revenues from sales of electricity and heat are high enough to enable power station operators to pay higher prices for biomass than material recyclers....

A high level of cutting activity since the beginning of 2022 contributed to some cooling on the German sawmill residue markets, which had previously been described as rather overheated. For some weeks now, both the sawdust and the pulp/MDF woodchips markets are said to have been restored to equilibrium. The outflow of...

At the beginning of 2023, an above-average supply of sawmill residues in Germany is coinciding with largely slack demand from almost all recipient sectors. Owing to the imbalance between supply and demand, sharp reductions of €75-90/t and more have arisen in pulp/MDF woodchips as well as in sawdust. With an average...