A number of you might be asking why Woodlets costs have gone up a lot.
For the previous two years, our costs remained static whilst manufacturing costs started to rise.
We at the moment are now not capable of take in rising manufacturing prices.
In an already fragile market – after Brexit and Covid, we’ve been hit by the Ukraine Disaster which is affecting gasoline and vitality prices globally and we can not maintain the hits.
In brief:
- The little vitality we import has elevated – up 600%
- Packaging manufacturing has doubled – up 200%
- Haulage and gasoline costs are being affected day by day – up 50% this 12 months
- Bodily pallets have doubled in value – up 200%
- We’re a dwelling wage employer
- Forest harvesting has been hit by new authorities laws. New Pink Diesel legal guidelines imply we are able to now not apply it to our manufacturing and processing website. And lorries taking timber away from the forests have to make use of commonplace diesel. This implies our gasoline payments have elevated from round 80p a litre to the usual £1.70 a litre.
Total, costs of wooden pellets within the UK are thought to have risen by between 25% and 40%, in keeping with prices throughout Europe.
The latest UK ban on imported Russian wooden pellets means there’s now a shortfall of round 360,000 tonnes of wooden pellets throughout the UK (3.3 million tonnes throughout the EU and the UK mixed) (supply: Hawkins-Wright).
Additionally, there is no such thing as a FSC® materials imported from Russia and Belarus till the present Ukraine disaster ends, which implies Russian pellets will now not qualify as ENPlus.
Mark Lebus, chair of the UK Pellet Council, mentioned “Wooden pellets will now not be sourced from Russia or imported from Russian producers. Given the earlier ranges of Russian exports, this can have an effect on provide worldwide, not simply to the UK however for different nations who’re all now competing for a similar premium product from comparable suppliers.
We’re doing our greatest to maintain Woodlets value will increase to a minimal. Our safe onshore provide chain ensures steady manufacturing at our plant in South West Scotland. However there’s large demand.
Relaxation assured that Woodlets is one of the best sustainable wooden pellet within the UK at this time, and is probably the most cost-effective gasoline heating answer.
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