Pellets News

Denmark-headquarted Dong Energy has announced that it has converted one unit of its Studstrup power plant in Aarhus to run on wood pellets instead of coal, while the second unit will be mothballed, helping to reduce carbon emissions. The conversion would allow Denmark's second-largest city to reduce emissions by 310,000 tonnes annually as it seek to become carbon-neutral by 2030, the company said…
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UK wood fuel supplier Forest Fuels has acquired the customer contracts of Cornwall-based wood pellet business Mi Generation. This is the second acquisition the firm has made in the second half of the year. In early July, Forest Fuels acquired Midlands Wood Fuel. Under its new acquisition, Forest Fuels will take over all of Mi Generation’s customers and all Mi Generation vehicles will be…
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Logistec Corp., a marine and environmental services provider, has opened its newly built bulk biomass pellet warehouses in Brunswick, Georgia. The modern buildings are a part of Logistec’s commitment to upgrade and expand its dry bulk facilities at Marine Port Terminals. “With the addition of these warehouses, we have substantially increased our throughput capacity,” said…
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World’s largest torrefied biomass producer New Biomass Energy has acquired the majority interest in a Mississippi, US, torrefaction plant and plans to continue the production of torrefied biomass. Initial production at the Quitman plant will supply 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of torrefied wood for a test burn at Portland General Electric's plant in Boardman, Oregon, later this…
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British Member of Parliament Andrew Percy visited a Canadian biomass plant recently to speak to the staff and witness the operation of the plant providing wood pellets for Drax, UK’s largest energy producer. Percy’s visit in the role of Minister for the Northern Powerhouse was to the Lavington Wood Pellet plant in British Columbia as part of a programme to promote UK-Canada trade and…
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Scotland-based wood pellet producer Land Energy Girvan is to invest £6.4 million (€7.6m) in expanding its site in South Ayrshire. According to media reports in the BBC, the move by the company includes increasing the capacity of its combined heat and power plant and upgrading its pellet line in Girvan. The company said at least 10 new full-time jobs would be created. The drive to…
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The global biomass pellets market was valued at $4.52 billion (€4.05bn) in 2014 and is forecast to reach $8.34 billion in 2020, a new market study says. According to research carried out by Zion Research, the biomass pellet market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.9% between 2015 and 2020. Biomass pellets are mainly used as a heating fuel, and their use in…
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Drax Biomass’ pellet mills in Louisiana and Mississippi, US, have achieved certification under the Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP).  The new certificate comes as an addition to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) acknowledgment Drax has received since it…
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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 operations late last…
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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 MD Peter Solly, the…
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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 support the project. The…
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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, excluding…
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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 and Citic…
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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 this contract are expected…
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