The shortage of sawdust has prompted an increase in sawmill residue prices in Germany. Source: Euwid
The growing shortage is due to heavy demand from the pellet industry, a seasonally lower supply of residual wood and reduced cutting performance in the sawmilling industry.
In Germany, supply of sawdust has continued to decline on the sawmill residue markets in the last few weeks.
Suppliers have been able to get more price increases accepted in the latest contracts.
The growing shortage is due to heavy demand from the pellet industry, a seasonally lower supply of residual wood over the bank holidays and at the turn of the year, and reduced cutting performance in the sawmilling industry due to the frost period.
Lower supply of sawdust has also had an effect on the market for pulp and MDF woodchips.
Quite a number of pellet producers have further increased their input of woodchip assortments in production operations.
Overhanging volumes that had still existed on the woodchip market at the end of the fourth quarter have thus been distributed in the meantime.
