Current Situation in Switzerland:
The current situatio in Switzerland regarding corona virus also affects the timber market. Loss of sales markets, bottlenecks in transport and storage capacities and uncertain development of the construction industry represents challenges for the industry and lower demand. In Italy and France, the processing companies have been partially or completely shut down. It must be expected that a large part of the amount of wood must now be sold and processed domestically. It must be assumed that these bottlenecks will increase because of construction site closures, illness-caused failures of chauffeurs or failures of trucks and machines that may not be repaired in the near future. More...
The energy carrier wood is a renewable energy source. The wood for producing energy can be taken from the waste of carpenter works or trees that have disease or fall down from storms. How can you win energy from wood? The wood sticks or pallets that are burned, generate heath and this is were the energy comes from. Also something that is associated with wood a lot is charcoal. Charcoal is a solid fuel and is produced when air-dry wood is heated to 275 ° C without air and without oxygen. Charcoal is made by heating wood with the exclusion of air. In 2018, 141'000 tons of charcoal were used.
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