Pellet prices in Germany have been falling for several months. The latest figures are striking: only four percent of consumers in Germany use pellets or firewood for heating.
Quedlinburg, Dusseldorf and Freiburg are places where you can still find ancient oaks, rare beech groves and dark fir forests. However, according to foresters' forecasts, these natural landscapes may change in the near future.
The Commercial Court of Zakarpattia Oblast decided to collect from the branch "Svalyavsk Forestry" the sum of UAH 422,000 as compensation for the damage caused as a result of the violation of environmental protection legislation.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is implementing new forest management standards in Poland. Among the key changes is the need to improve working conditions for forest workers.
The Director General of State Forestry, Witold Koss, asked the Ministry of Climate and Environment to propose changes to the legislation that would limit the export of raw wood from Poland outside the European Union.
Profitability of production increased from a few percent to 16%, and the profit of "Forests of Ukraine" over the past year and a half reached UAH 5.35 billion.
Marcin Dobrowolski from BIZNES24 spoke with Marek Kubiak, president of the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Woodworking Industry, about the current situation on the wood market.
Poland's Ministry of Climate and Environment plans to exclude about 20% of state forests from management, transforming them into "social forests" with limited control.
What should be the state policy, the state strategy of Ukraine in the context of green recovery and is there a place for this active use of wood as a possible key element in this program?
State-owned enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" marks a successful three-year history of selling raw wood on licensed exchanges, achieving an impressive rate of almost 90% fulfillment of sales contracts.
An important event for the wood market will take place in Kyiv on August 1 - a press conference on the topic "Implementation, not imitation: key aspects of effective regulation".
