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Drax's biomass pellet storage, handling and loading facilities at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge are now complete and receiving pellets daily.
The first biomass pellets to pass through the facility have now been loaded onto the MV TBC Princess. This first vessel, which arrived on 19 April, forms part of the commissioning process, enabling Drax to test its ship loading equipment.
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The Sustainable Biomass Partnership (SBP) has announced the appointment of Julia Marton-Lefèvre as the chairman of the new board being established to provide advice to the SBP.
Marton-Lefèvre has been prominent in the scientific and environmental community and has recently stepped down as director general of IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) following eight…
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Idaho, US-based Centennial Renewable Energy (CRE) has signed agreements to purchase land for its first wood pellet project in the state and is now commencing engineering design with its lead design build contractor Dome Technology.
CRE is building a 160,000 tonne per year wood pellet plant in the heart of the Idaho wood basket to produce pellets to the ENplus A2 standard.
Following the completion…
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Inspection company USFGIS and Twin Ports Testing have signed a strategic agreement to jointly enter the biomass market.
Jane Vogt, USFGIS VP, says: 'By combining the strengths of both companies we create a single source solution for inspection and testing services to the biomass industry in a highly efficient way.'
Twin Ports Testing has been involved in the wood pellet industry since the early…
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Scotia Atlantic Biomass, a wholly owned subsidiary of Viridis Energy, has received a working capital loan of $2 million (€1.9 million) from Cornwall Investments, which will be used to procure Nova Scotia wood fibre for the production of its industrial pellets.
The loan is secured by inventory in the form of a demand note with interest calculated daily and compounded monthly at the rate of…
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The Wood Pellet Association of Canada (WPAC) has announced the resignation of Brad Bennett as president and director.
Michele Rebiere will succeed Bennett and president and director. Rene Landry has been appointed VP and director, and Wayne Young appointed as director.
Bennett is said to have stepped down for 'personal reasons'. The WPAC board of directors thanks Bennett for his service and…
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Drax has acquired Billington Bioenergy (BBE), the UK's second largest wood pellet distributor. The move signals the power generator's intention to enter the country's growing biomass heat sector.
Drax is now the UK's largest renewable power generator by replacing much of its coal capacity with biomass, and is also a world leader in sourcing sustainable biomass through Drax Biomass and supplying…
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Viridis Merchants (VM), an aggregation and trading service of wood pellets and wholly owned subsidiary of wood pellet manufacturer Viridis Energy, has secured a contract with an existing supplier, for exclusive distribution of up to 18,000 tonnes of 100% Douglas fir pellets.
The contract value is over C$6 million (€4.4 million) during 2015.
VM launched its Okanagan Pellet Douglas Fir brand…
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Sia Broceni Pellets, a subsidiary of Estonia-based forestry company Graanul Invest, has acquired 16 hectares of land in Latvia on which it will build a wood pellet plant.
The facility will be able to produce around 150,000 tonnes a year of pellets when it comes online in the beginning of 2016.
The company has already secured long-term supply contracts for the raw materials for the plant.
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In the US, Lignetics and Bear Mountain Forest Products have completed a merger to create a company that will produce approximately 450,000 tonnes a year of wood pellets, making it the largest residential wood pellet fuel producer in the country.
The company will also be the only pellet manufacturing company that will have wood pellet facilities on both the East and West Coast, in locations…
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Vega Biofuels has placed an order for thousands of tonnes of biocoal for shipment to an international client.
Manufactured from timber waste using torrefaction technology, biocoal has a high energy density of up to 13,000 BTUs/lb and is considered a renewable energy fuel that meets the Renewable Portfolio Standards and Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) in the US.
Vega recently announced that it was…
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New England Wood Pellet (NEWP), a subsidiary of Rentech, has acquired the assets of Allegheny Pellet Corp.
The acquisition, Rentech says, expands NEWP's market position as the largest producer of wood pellets for the US heating market.
Allegheny's wood pellet plant in Youngsville, Pennsylvania has been operating since 1993. The facility processes residuals from local sawmills into wood pellets…
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Wood pellet manufacturer and trader German Pellets has taken over the pellet business of Nord Energie, effective 16 February.
Nord Energie supplies wood pellets to consumers in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and northern Lower Saxony and has more than five years' experience in pellet trading and logistics. The acquisition by German Pellets includes its vehicle fleet, pellet storage resources and the…
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The European Commission announced on 19 February that it is assessing whether UK plans to support the conversion of the Lynemouth coal power plant to operate on biomass were in line with EU state aid rules.
The Commission will investigate further to ensure that public funds used to support the project are limited to what is necessary and do not result in overcompensation. It will also assess…
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SBP has announced that certification body SCS Global Services has been accepted as an applicant and is now able to progress towards achieving SBP-approved status.
The SBP Framework of standards and processes enables producers of woody biomass to demonstrate that they source their raw material responsibly and that it complies with the legal, regulatory and sustainability requirements applicable to…
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