Aug 4, 2016
Drax Biomass receives Sustainable Biomass Partnership certification
Pellets News
Jul 21, 2016
Wood processing specialist Canfor has opened two new wood pellet plants worth C$58 million (€40.3m) in Canada’s British Columbia.
The two plants, located at Fort St. John and Chetwynd, were built at Canfor's existing sawmills and have a combined annual production capacity of 175,000 tonnes of wood pellets, Prince George Citizen reports.
The Chetwynd plant began... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 5, 2016
Midlands Wood Fuel (MWF), wood fuel supplier to Central and Northern England and Wales, has today joined forces with Forest Fuels, another UK wood fuel supplier, under the ownership of AMP.
MWF is a long-standing wood fuel supplier with 14 depots covering an area that stretches from York down to Gloucester and Oxford, with more than 500 customers.
According to Forest Fuels... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jul 5, 2016
UK engineering company Spencer Group has won a significant contract for the design and construction of a facility for the handling, storage, and rail-loading of wood pellets in the UK.
The facilities being designed and built by Spencer are at Tyne Dock, South Shields, where the Port of Tyne recently invested £25 million (€29.5m) in extending Riverside Quay to... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 27, 2016
PHI Group, a US public company focused on conventional energy and renewables, announced that the company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire a wood pellet manufacturing company in southeastern US.
The identity of the target company and certain details will be kept confidential until closing, PHI Group said in a statement.
The total purchase price for 100% of the operation,... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 14, 2016
Tangshan Steel Co. (Tanggang), a subsidiary of the Chinese Hebei Iron & Steel Co., has started producing biomass fuel its northern Chinese facility.
Located in the Hebei Province, the facility will according to Tanggang produce 100,000 tonnes of biomass fuel a year to boost environmental standards across the Hebei steel industry.
The production line was built by Tanggang... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 3, 2016
Enviva Partners, a US-headquartered wood pellet producer, announced the execution of a new take-or-pay off-take contract to supply wood pellets to Lynemouth Power, a subsidiary of Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH).
Lynemouth Power plans to convert its 420 megawatt coal facility in the UK to wood pellet fuel by the end of 2017. Deliveries under... [Read More]
Pellets News
Jun 2, 2016
Pinnacle Renewable Energy, a Canadian wood pellet producer, said it will curtail operations at its British Colombia pellet plant with immediate effect.
According to media reports, there are a number of factors that have gone into the decision to stop production at its Quesnel mill. Key among them are that the plant, first opened in 1988, was designed to process a diet... [Read More]
Pellets News
May 27, 2016
Enviva Holdings, a US wood pellet producer, has announced the recipients of its 2016 forest conversation grants.
The firm runs the Enviva Forest Conservation Fund - a $5 million, 10-year program designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of bottomland forests in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia.
“We are very pleased to be working with our friends... [Read More]
Pellets News
May 16, 2016
Michele Rebiere, the president of the Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC), is stepping down after just over a year in the position.
In a press statement, the organisation said that Rebiere expressed the need to focus on her role as chief financial officer of Viridis Energy as the company pursues the sale of its business.
In a statement, WPAC said: “WPAC’s Board... [Read More]
Pellets News
May 11, 2016
North American overseas pellet exports increased for the third consecutive quarter in the Q4 2015, rising 7% from the previous quarter to just over 1.54 million tonnes, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review (NAWFR).
The total for the year was 55.3 million tonnes, which was 2% higher than in 2014 and almost four times as much as in 2010.
In the Q4 2015, total... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 22, 2016
Canada-based wood pellet producer Viridis Energy is up for sale.
The company had earlier failed to meet a lender's deadline to pay debts owed by one of its subsidiaries.
Viridis appointed US biomass industry consultancy FutureMetrics as the sales representative of the company and its three subsidiaries.
In a statement, FutureMetrics said that the company will either be... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 20, 2016
Finnish technology firm Valmet will supply a wood pellet heating plant to electricity firm Helen Oy's Salmisaari power plant.
The wood pellet plant will enable Helen to increase the use of bio fuels in district heat production in Helsinki. The new plant helps the city of Helsinki to meet its aim of increasing its production of renewable energy.
The start-up of the heating... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 15, 2016
The global biomass pellet market is expected to grow with a CAGR of 11.1% until 2020, according to a recent market study.
According to research by Research & Markets, as US-based market watchdog, the increasing use of biomass pellets in power industry is propelling the growth of the global biomass pellet market.
The growing demand for renewable energy sources is one... [Read More]
Pellets News
Apr 8, 2016
Viridis Energy has ceased operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. (OPC) plant due to recent structural concerns and a combination of other factors.
According to the company, despite substantial upgrades over the past 10 months, addressing additional requirements from local authorities regarding dust management, together with the recently discovered structural challenges... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 30, 2016
Tennessee, US-based Astec Industries has received a $122.5 million (€108.3m) order to supply equipment for a Highland Pellets pellet plant, along with a related deposit on the order.
Astec previously announced receipt of the initial $30 million order on August 20, 2015.
The company plans to build and deliver the equipment in the additional order during 2016 and... [Read More]
Pellets News
Mar 29, 2016
Amec Foster Wheeler, a UK engineering company, has been awarded a contract to supply a biomass dust combustion plant for Finnish utility company Seinäjoen Energia.
The plant will be operated as back-up for a peak load district heating plant and increase capacity to 120MWth.
Heavy fuel oil combustion will be replaced with biomass based fuels, including wood pellets,... [Read More]
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