Wood Chip Price per Ton: Moisture, Quality and Delivery Costs

Wood chip price per ton is easy to misread when moisture and weighing basis differ. This guide explains what to compare. It does not publish today's market prices or guaranteed discounts.

Pile of wood chips for biomass boilers and industrial heating

Species, material type and intended use

Fuel chips and pulp-oriented chips are not priced on the same checklist. State end use before comparing numbers.

Processing level and screened size also change handling cost.

A government export reference price, if any, is not the same as a supplier offer.

Moisture and wet tonne versus bone-dry tonne

Wet or green metric tonnes include water mass. Bone-dry metric tonnes (BDMT) exclude it. Mixing the two makes quotes look closer or farther than they are.

Hypothetical illustration only: if 10 wet tonnes are at 40% moisture wet basis, dry mass is 10 × (1 − 0.40) = 6 tonnes. This is a mass conversion example, not useful heat or boiler efficiency, and not a price.

Final availability and specifications are confirmed per inquiry.

Quote basis, freight, storage and inspection

Ask whether the number is ex-works, delivered or another basis, and what freight, storage and inspection items include.

Confirm weighing, sampling and any moisture adjustment language in the commercial discussion.

Compare specification and delivered costs, not only price per tonne.

RFQ template

Include end use, species/source notes if known, size distribution, moisture target and basis, wet or dry quotation preference, volume, destination and documents to discuss.

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Related reading: specifications guide and buying/export checklist.