Jan 8 2018
The portuguese forest industrial company Navigator will sell it´s american pellets business including the 500 000 t/y pellets production facility Colombo Energy in Greenwood, South Carolina, Buyer is a joint venture between the development unit of the world largest pellets producer Enviva and the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, called Enviva JV Development Company, LLC. In […]
Jan 4 2018
Rentech, Inc. (RTKH.OB), an owner and operator of wood fibre processing and wood pellet production businesses, said that the company and its subsidiary, Rentech WP U.S. Inc. have filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The company […]
Jan 4 2018
January 4, 2018 – Pellet Fuels Institute announced today that it has hired Tim Portz to serve as the organization’s executive director. Portz, based in Minneapolis, MN, joins PFI with a wealth of industry knowledge from his previous role as longtime executive editor of Biomass Magazine and Pellet Mill Magazine. “We are thrilled to welcome Tim Portz to […]
Dec 10 2017
This week, Drax Biomass Inc. began start up production at its newest facility, LaSalle BioEnergy in Urania, Louisiana. The company is a subsidiary to the UK utility Drax, the world largest user of wood pellets. “This is a very exciting moment, we have a dedicated and motivated work force that after months of upgrades, retrofits, […]
Nov 22 2017
CPL Industries, UK largest coal merchant and wholesaler and Europes largest producer of coal-biomass briquets, has announced plans to install a commercial-scale Bio-coal facility, Hydrothermal Carbonisation (HTC), at its 300 000 t/y briquetting site in Immingham, North Lincolnshire. The facility, scheduled to begin production in mid-2018, will be the first commercial-scale example of this technology, […]
Nov 22 2017
Andritz to supply a biomass-fired circulating fluidized bed boiler to Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Japan, will use wood pellets and PKS. Graz, November 22, 2017. International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES), Japan, to deliver a PowerFluid circulating fluidized bed boiler with flue gas cleaning system […]
Nov 16 2017
Increases in Vietnam’s wood pellet spot prices accelerated during the third quarter, boosted by strengthening Japanese and South Korean utility demand against a backdrop of tightening supply reports Argus Biomass markets. The supply-demand balance is expected to remain tight in the final quarter of the year and beyond, with South Korea’s total wood pellet demand […]
Sep 6 2017
Great Northern Timber Group has signed a tentative agreement to purchase the Scotia Atlantic Biomass pellet plant, pending due diligence and court approval, said Thor Olesen, CEO of GNT. the plan is to restart the plant in quarter 4, 2017. The transaction is expected to close before the end of September. The Scotia Atlantic Biomass facility […]
Sep 5 2017
Arensis, an LA based international provider of off-grid energy generation, has bought the Verdo 60 000 t/y wood pellet plant in Grangemouth, Scotland. The acquisition, part of a £50 million (€54m) UK investment plan, gives Arensis a sustainable, carbon-neutral fuel supply for its biomass energy generation. Arensis provides off-grid, sustainable, carbon neutral energy generation to […]
Aug 28 2017
Italian Di Piu Systems s.r.l. acquired by CPM Holdings Inc. joins CPM Europe B.V . CPM Holdings Inc. (CPM), a world leading supplier of processing equipment and technology to the biofuels, animal feed, oilseed, food, and compounding industries announces the acquisition of Di Più Macchine Impianti based in Breganze, Italy. Founded in 1996, Di Più is a […]
Aug 15 2017
PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 15.8.2017: EUR/MWh 26.39 (+0.57 from previous month), SEK/MWh 253.06 (+1.22 from previous month) Notable is the currency changes. Euro weakened against the Swedish krona for the first time this year and gave a downward push tot the SEK value and the opposite to the Euro value. PIX indexes are trademark registered, […]
Aug 3 2017
South Korean energy company SY Energy is performing test runs on its new 300,000 t/yr wood pellet producing facility in Jincheon, Chungcheongbuk-do province, and plans to reach full capacity by September reports Argus Biomass Markets – The facility will be the country’s largest wood pellet production plant, SY Energy chief executive Kim Ji-Yeung said. The […]
Jul 29 2017
Forest inventory in US South has more than doubled since 1953 in response to increased demand for forest products. When demand occurs, earlier by the timber industry and later also by the energy industry, the private forest owners reacts by investing in managing their forests and harvest their products. It is not the area of […]
May 22 2017
On May 24 between 14:30 and 17:30 seven Russian industry speakers will at the wood working and forest industry exhibition at Ligna, Hannover, Germany, present Russian position in the pellets and lumber industry. The presentation will be held in Hall 26 Wood Industry Summit. Key items are The Russian Pellet market Olga Rakitova present a […]
May 18 2017
The cold spring has helped to keep the pellet price stable report Foex in their Nordic Pix Pellets price index for May 18. The Euro has strengthened by 0.7% against the Swedish Crown from March to April. This ment an upward pressure on the SEK value and the opposite to the Euro value. The new plant […]
May 11 2017
Pinnacle Renewable Energy building Alberta pellet plant Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. will now build its first wood pellet plant outside of British Columbia. Parkland County officials announced on May 3 that the company will build a new, $85 million pellet plant near Entwistle in central Alberta. The new facility will bring Pinnacle’s total number of pellet […]
May 8 2017
New agreement ensures biomass district heating for Herning, Ikast and Sunds for the next 15 years Dong owned Herning Power Station is to deliver district heating to the Danish energy companies ‘Eniig Varme’, ‘Energi Ikast Varme’ and ‘Sunds Vand- og Varmeværk’ until 2033. At the same time, the efficiency of Herning Power Station will be upgraded […]
Apr 27 2017
British Drax utility and pellet producer has complete the purchase of the assets of the earlier German Pellets owned 450 000 t/y Louisiana Pellets production facility in Urania, Lousiana, USA. This following a court hearing. The auction price was $35,4mn. Drax is also interested in the other earlier american German Pellets plant Texas Pellets but […]
Apr 27 2017
The Pix Nordic Wood Pellet Index published in April and presenting March values show a declining price because of the so far mild winter. The supply demand balance in the pellet market has kept improving. Power plants in Europe have increased their pellet use and this has reduced spot volumes from the market. However political […]
Mar 21 2017
Grade Index Value Change Conf. interv. Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 27.61 – 0.11 27.33 -27,89 SEK/MWh 261,64 -2,01 Index is based on previous month’s data. For price conversion between price per ton and price per MWh, a coefficient of 4.8 is used, if not otherwise informed by the price provider. The average temperature […]
Feb 16 2017
The pellet boiler market in Austria 2016 was a quiet one, told Christian Rakos the manager of Austrian pelletsorgansiation Pro Pellets when he spoke at the Central European Biomass Conference in Graz in January. The conference CEBC attracted over 1 000 participants from 40 countries. In Austria only the year 2000 and 2007 have had a lower sale […]
Feb 3 2017
DONG Energy has decided that by 2023, coal will no longer be used as fuel at the company’s power stations. The decision goes hand in hand with the aim to reduce CO2 emissions in power and heat generation with 96% as compared to 2006. Read about how they are working to materialize this vision in […]
Dec 21 2016
Enviva Partners, LP completes Sampson Drop-down Acquisition Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) has completed the announced acquisition of the Sampson pellet production plant and associated off-take contracts from it´s sponsor company Enviva Holdings, LP’s a joint venture with affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company. “We are pleased to announce that the Sampson acquisition, our second drop-down […]
Dec 20 2016
The industrial pellet market in Europe has remained quiet PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 20.12.2016: EUR/MWh 27.33 (-0.04 from previous month), SEK/MWh 269.22 (+3.53 from previous month) The prices in the spot market are reported to remain on a low level. Drax’ units are still not running with their full capacity and Dong’s new power station […]
Oct 18 2016
No Coal No More – Dong Energy has started pellets Firing in Studstrup CHP plant One of the biggest biomass-fuelled combined heat and power (CHP) stations in the world is now located in Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The Studstrup Power Station began to use wood pellets instead of coal as fuel on 10 October, […]
Oct 13 2016
Little hope for investors of German pellets The approximately 17,000 investors of the insolvent German pellet group have only a small chance to see their money again.German Pellets had collected approximately 280 million € of capital through the issue of bonds. business.conbio.info/2016-10-12/ The insolvency administrator Bettina Schmudde reported at a recently held creditor’s meeting in Schwerin […]
Sep 22 2016
German Pellets two US pellet plants, combined capacity 1 million ton are for sale. business.conbio.info/2016-09-22/ The two bankrupted German Pellets US pellet plants are now for sale. Their combined capacity is 1 million ton. Both are operating and producing pellets reports Argus Biomass market. In Urania, Louisiana, the Lousiana Pellets have in the summer restarted production […]
Sep 21 2016
Earlier German pellets major sales company Firestixx activities are since summer organised in a new company. business.conbio.info/2016-09-20/ The German Pellets daughter FireStixx Holz-Energie GmbH, with one of the most famous brands in the pellets business in central Europe, is since July 27 2016 now organised in a new company FireStixx GmbH & Co KG, based […]
Sep 20 2016
European market for industrial pellets has remained stable. Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 27.27 + 0.20 26.05 ‐ 28.49 SEK/MWh […]
Aug 30 2016
/inbio.biz/Lennart ljungblom/2016-08-30/ The steam exploded pellets, branded black pellets, are produced in Selma Alabama and shipped from Mobile to Port of Rouen and transported by train to the coal power plant Saint-Ouen in the north of Paris. In Paris will the main district heating operator, CPCU replace half of the coal for the production of heat and power. In spring the company inaugurated […]
Aug 24 2016
Imavere mill receives SBP certificate business.conbio.info/2016-08-24/ Imavare Mill has received SBP – Sustainable Biomass Partnership certificate for its pellet production. The first Stora Enso mill that was granted the SBP certificate was Näpi mill in July 2016, and also Nebolchi mill is currently finalising its certification. SBP certification is a tool, which has been developed for the biomass energy […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ Wismar Pellets reports rising business. The company, owned by Metropolitan Equity Partners (MEP), owns and operates the bankcrupted German Pellets GmbH pellet production plant in Wismar. The company has according to a story reported by the radio channel NDR regained customers and suppliers. The wood supply is also working smoothly. The wood used come mainly from the Baltic States. […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ Japan’s general trading companies are expanding supplies of fuel from biomass like wood chips, pellets etc. for power plants to meet an expected surge in demand from facilities set to start up in 2017 and 2018, a development encouraged by the country’s feed-in-tariff system reports Nikkei Asian review. Sojitz will begin production as early as […]
Aug 17 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-17/ The price of wood pellets remains also in August on the stable low summer level. According to the German Energy Wood and Pellet Association e.V. (DEPV) pellets in Germany cost on average 222.54 EUR per tonne. This is 0.1 percent less than last month and 4 percent less than in August 2015. One kilogram of pellets costs […]
Aug 16 2016
Business.conbio.info /2016-08-16 The founding family of the bankrupt wood pellet producer German Pellets is back in business. Kathrin Wiedmar, daughter of the founder Peter Leibold is announced to become the majour share holder of the pellet production and trading company Pellex Bioenergie AG, located in Hamburg, with a pellets production in Sachenburg, Austria. Pellex Bioenergie AG […]
Aug 15 2016
Business.conbio,info /2016-08-15 The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) is a large wood basket but a combination of market change and government regulation creates problem for pellet production. This is a bit of a surprise though the province is otherwise eager to promote its growing pellets industry and has e.g. for export purposes made great […]
Aug 7 2016
business.conbio.info/2016-08-07/ The Wood Pellet Industry in the United States now includes a new producer, Colombo Energy, owned by the Portuguese Navigator company, earlier known as Portucel Soporcel Group. With a global investment of estimated $110 million USD it will produce 460,000 tons per year of pellets and create 70 new jobs. BRUKS was selected as […]
Aug 2 2016
Biomass generate 70 percent of Drax total power providing 20 percent of UK total business.conbio.info/Lennart Ljungblom/2016-08-02 The UK huge power group Drax reported July 26 in their half year financial report a large increase in pellet used for power generation, up from 36 percent in 2015 to 70 percent. However the company also reported EBITA for […]
Jul 31 2016
New database for North American power plants and pellet mills business.conbio.info/2016-07-31 Working with Ecostrat and other partners, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has developed this comprehensive database of wood to energy conversion facilitates in the United States and Canada. It covers power plants as well as wood pellet mills. Originally developed and hosted by the […]
Jul 8 2016
Stable price in Euro – increasing price in SEK according to FOEX Pellet Nordic CIF index by June. EUR/MWh 28.72 (‐ 0.11 ) Confidence interval: 27.84 ‐ 29.60 SEK/MWh 266.95 + 1.63 Foex reports that the Baltic pellet industry is expanding. The Swedish owned (Lifco group) Estonian Pellet plant and saw mill supplier Hekotek has […]
Jul 6 2016
business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom/2016-07-05 / German Pellets update – another plant sold – production will continue PLT Pellet Lohnfertigung Torgau GmbH is the new owner of the assets of German Pellets Sachsen GmbH in Torgau. The production will be restarted immediately according to the new owner. The administrator of the insolvency procecess Bettina Schmudde from Kanzlei […]
Jun 9 2016
Graanul Invest buys Genk-Langerlo power plant in Belgium business.conbio.info /Lennart Ljungblom / 2016-06-09 / Estonian headquartered fast growing pellets and energy producer AS Graanul Invest has overtaken the Belgian power plant Langerlo NV in Genk, Flandern from Peter Leibold, owner of the now insolvent pellet group German Pellets. Peter Leibold bought the plant as late […]
May 17 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-17 / Lennart Ljungblom Insolvency proceedings opened on 1 May 2016 Metropolitan Equity Partners Management acquires the Wismar plant J. Rettenmaier & Söhne takes over the plants in Ettenheim and Herbrechtingen Final negotiations with interested parties for the Torgau plant The existing team of experts will secure the operations […]
May 17 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-05-17 / Lennart Ljungblom PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 17.5.2016: EUR/MWh 28.83 (-0.11 from previous month), SEK/MWh 265.31 (-3.39 from previous month) In April, the temperatures in some parts of the Nordic countries were higher than on average, but in some parts the difference from the long-term average was only limited. Prices reported to us […]
May 11 2016
business.conbio.info Exportation of wood pellets from North America totaled 6.1 million tons in 2015, which almost four times as much as in 2010, as reported in the latest issue of the North American Wood Fiber Review. In the second half of 2015, export volumes from Southern Gulf ports were up almost 70%. UK and Japan […]
Apr 22 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-22/Lennart Ljungblom German Pellets related companies keep on falling – now Woodox Management German Pellets daughter Woodox Management GmbH managed by German Pellets CEO Peter Leibold now also in bankruptcy. Their main business was to market the yearly 225 000 ton pellet produced by the three Woodox wood pellet plants Pelletsproduktion Sachsen Anhalt Süd (Osterfeld/Heidegrund), Pelletsproduktion Sachsen […]
Apr 21 2016
Royal Bank of Canada claim Viridis subsidiary Okanagan Pellet Company to pay all outstanding depts Viridis Energy Inc. is a publicly traded company (Toronto Venture exchange: VRD – Public documents HERE) and has been a producer and trader of residential and industrial wood pellet fuel. Viridis is working with FutureMetrics for the potential sale of all […]
Apr 8 2016
April 21 2016: Please check updates about Viridis Energy: /Lennart Ljungblom business.conbio.info /2016-04-08 / Lennart Ljungblom Viridis Energy ceases operations at its Okanagan Pellet Co. plant 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 […]
Apr 8 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-07 / Lennart Ljungblom Pellets and tidal power to save UK steel industry Sanjeev Gupta, chairman of Liberty House Group is convinced there’s still a profitable life ahead for Britain’s nearly bankrupt steel industry, and he’s planning to use wood pellets and sea tides to save it according to Renewableenergyworld.com. His plan involves rewriting the economics of […]
Apr 6 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-04-06 / Lennart Ljungblom Amec Foster Wheeler supplies pellet combustion plant to Finland Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a contract to supply a 90 MWth biomass powder combustion plant for Finnish utility company Seinäjoen Energia Oy. The plant will be operated as back-up for a peak load district heating plant and increase capacity to 120 MWth. […]
Mar 30 2016
business.conbio.info /2016-03-30 /LLj 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 […]
Mar 20 2016
business.conbio.info / Lennart Ljungblom Production at German Pellets runs again according to a statement of Wolfgang Weber-Thedy from the company Agency Weaver Thedy, through which the communication of the provisional insolvency administrator Bettina Schmudde runs. Weber-Thedy said the production now run on one of two lines in Wismar. Meanwhile, also an investor process has been started. The primary […]
Feb 17 2016
Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 29.42 – 0.67 28.74 – 30.10 SEK/MWh 273.09 – 5.02 Index is based on previous month’s data. For price conversion between price per ton and price per MWh, a coefficient of 4.8 is used, if not otherwise informed by the price provider. According to […]
Feb 11 2016
The Wismar based pellet fuel producer German Pellets may not rehabilitate themselves. The application for self-administered insolvency had been rejected. If accepted the founder Peter Leibold would continue remained in office, despite having to answer for the failure. Court appoints Bettina Schmudde of the law firm White & Case as preliminary insolvency administrator . German Pellets had […]
Jan 12 2016
CMT’s Biomass Series has traveled across Europe, America and Asia – from Rotterdam to Brussels to Atlanta to Seoul to Jakarta and recently to Tokyo. With nearly a decade of bringing together over thousands of wood pellet & wood chip producers & traders, power utilities, and technology providers, the Series is often pegged as the […]
Jan 12 2016
The World Sustainable Energy Days, 23 – 26 of February, including the European Pellet Conference Feb 24-25, are organised by the OÖ Energiesparverband, the energy agency of Upper Austria with the mission of promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Independently in parallell 24 – 28 February is the big Energisparmesse – Expoenergy – organised by […]
Jan 10 2016
Jan 10 – RWE, Germany’s second-biggest utility, has agreed to sell its 420 MW Lynemouth coal-fired power plant in Britain to Czech-Slovak energy investment group EPH, it said on Thursday. No purchase price was disclosed for the 420-megawatt (MW) plant in northern England, bought by RWE in 2012. The sale comes after the European Commission in […]
Jan 10 2016
The European Commission (EC) has started an in-depth investigation to make sure that the planned UK subsidy contract (CfD) for a 645-MW biomass-fired unit of Drax Group Plc (LON:DRX) will be in line with EU state aid rules. The UK based power plant is in the process of switching it’s third of six units from coal […]
Jan 6 2016
Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE:EVA) has announced it has acquired the fully-contracted 510 000 t/y Southampton plant from its sponsor’s joint venture Enviva Holding with affiliates of John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Highlights: Acquired Southampton plant and 10-year take-or-pay off-take contract for $131 million Increased production capacity to 2.2 million metric tons per year Extended weighted average […]
Dec 15 2015
Grade Index Value Change Confidence interval Pellet Nordic CIF EUR/MWh 29.83 + 1.04 29.57 – 30.09 SEK/MWh 277.82 + 8.67 After removing the highest and lowest 10% of the price quotes, the PIX Pellet Nordic index value increased in Euro-terms by 1.04 euros, or by 3.61%, ending at 29.83 EUR/MWh. The value increased also in […]
Dec 2 2015
UK Coal plant gets green light to burn wood pellets Another of Britain’s remaining coal-fired power plants is to be converted to burn wood pellets mainly shipped in from North America, after the European Commission approved a £1bn subsidy contract for the project. Lynemouth 420 MW power plant to be resurrected as a biomass plant […]
Dec 1 2015
SBP Framework Recognised by UK Energy Regulator UK energy regulator, Ofgem, has today published a summary of the results of its benchmarking exercise of voluntary schemes against the UK’s Renewables Obligation land criteria for woody biomass. The SBP Framework has been evaluated and found to be fully compliant with the legislation. The summary of results […]
Nov 23 2015
Northeast Wood Products (NWP) is pleased to announce that construction on its newest manufacturing facility in Jasper, TN is nearly complete with production to begin in November. During this first phase, the plant will have the capacity to produce up to 125,000 tons of premium heat pellets annually, and the company anticipate it will double capacity […]
Nov 16 2015
Enviva reports earnings and an expanding international pellet market. Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE:EVA) has reported financial and operating results for the third quarter of 2015 and updates about the company and the international pellet market. The company reports adjusted EBITA of $ 15.9 million and a strong balance sheet. Enviva partners expects acquisition of 500 […]
Nov 6 2015
Port of Baton Rouge: Drax’s strategic US port facility CASE STUDY, by Drax Source Drax’s US based business is responsible for developing and operating its US pellet plants and port facilities – processing and shipping sustainable biomass to Drax Power Station in the UK, ensuring a secure source of renewable fuel for electricity production. It […]
Nov 6 2015
Aztec “Fram Renewables third line in Hazlehurst 560 000 t/y pelletplant nearly installed” During a recent call regarding Astec Q3 2015 financial report, Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Treasurer David Silvious Brock provided an update on the wood pellet plant Astec built för Fram Renewables in Hazlehurst, Georgia. “In addition to line one that is running, line […]
Oct 29 2015
Italy to reverse increased VAT tax on pellets back to 10 percent The VAT tax was raised to 22 percent in January 2015, but it was a misstake the we will correct says the economic development ministry. The change to 10 pc tax is included in the government’s draft financial law bill and will be […]
Oct 19 2015
In Germany the price of wood pellets is quite stable, but on a yearly basis falling, as shown by DEPI, the German Pelles Institute. The average cost for pellets as reported in October is 233.78 EUR per tonne, a slight increase since large month with 0.3 percent. But the price is 7 percent less than in October 2014. The price advantage […]
Oct 16 2015
April 21 2016: Please check updates about Viridis Energy: /Lennart Ljungblom Viridis Energy invests in Okanogan pellets and plans expansion. Viridis Energy Inc. owner of two pellets production plants and a pellet trading company reports ongoing investments in the Okanagan pellet plant and also reports a half year loss of 3.2 million Canadian dollar on […]
Oct 15 2015
Bergkvist-Insjön AB, is Sweden’s largest family owned forest industry and is running a high quality sawmill with laminated wood as one speciality and also managing a large forest area in the middle of Sweden. 85 percent of the sawmill products are exported, Japan is the largest market. Bergkvist-Insjön has together with the local energy company […]
Oct 14 2015
In October, the retail prices for wood pellets of the quality ENplus A1 increased slightly. The average price is currently at 378.90 CHF / t. This is 1% more than in September, but still 6.8% less than in October 2014th In euro terms, the price is 346.50 Euro / t. and thus 10.6% higher than […]
Oct 5 2015
WOOD PELLET PRICE SEPTEMBER 2015 PRICE FOR BULK WOOD PELLETS The price survey done by proPellets Austria resulted in an average price of € 22.93€-Cent per kg of wood pellets or 4.68 Cent per kWh. – Compared to the previous year -5.7% – Compared to the previous month +/-0.0% Pellet Price Index PPI06: 128.94 Wood pellets presently […]
Jun 11 2015
South Korea is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for wood pellets, with imports soaring from 122,000 tonnes in 2012 to 1.85 million tonnes in 2014. Vietnam is the largest supplier of wood pellets to South Korea, with exports jumping from only 33,000 tonnes in 2012 to 745,000 tonnes in 2014. Through the first […]
May 22 2015
BillerudKorsnäs divests its Baltic pellets operations SIA Latgran to AS Graanul Invest 2015-05-22 11:00 BillerudKorsnäs has signed an agreement with AS Graanul Invest concerning the sale of its shares in SIA Latgran. Latgran is a leading Latvian based pellets producer with annual volumes of 497 thousand tonnes and sales of EUR 73 million in 2014. […]
Apr 21 2015
Pellet price in Euro recovered – Foex The latest FOEX Pix Nordic Pellet index reports increased price in Euro and slightly lower in SEK. After removing the highest and lowest 10% of the price quotes, the PIX Pellet Nordic benchmark increased in Euro terms by 0.30 EUR/MWh, or by 0.99% closing at 30.51 EUR/MWh and […]
Apr 17 2015
Lantmännen Holmsund replaces oil, installs a 2 MW steam boiler for pellets. Leading Swedish animal feed manufacturer Lantmännen has converted yet another unit to wood pellets in its ambition to become fossil free. The most recent contribution is the Holmsund unit located outside the city of Umeå in northern Sweden. The plant earlier consumed 375 […]
Apr 6 2015
DONG Energy is converting coal-fired power station to green energy 27.03.2015 12:55 The last CHP unit at Avedøre Power Station will be converted making it able from 2016 to use wood pellets as fuel instead of coal. This can provide green heat for an additional 65,000 households in the Greater Copenhagen area. From the autumn […]
Mar 8 2015
The two longest running wood pellet manufacturing companies in the U.S. merged, creating the largest residential wood pellet fuel producer in the United States. 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 […]
Feb 11 2015
The international conference World Sustainable Energy Days 2015 held from 25 – 27 February 2015 in Wels/Austria is approaching quickly. The organizers report they have already received over 600 registrations from 64 countries and expects many more to come in the next days! The full conference programme The events of the World Sustainable Energy Days […]
Jan 22 2015
In the region of Aragon in northern Spain, in the small municipality of Bea in the province of Teruel a new pellet plant is about to start its test production. It is the company Pellets Teruel SL that invests and will run the plant with a capacity of 24 000 t/y. The manager of Teruel Pellets […]
Jan 21 2015
Tolko, Pinnacle to proceed with pellet plant construction Construction of a proposed pellet plant at Tolko’s Lavington mill will begin later this month, Tolko Industries Ltd. and Pinnacle Renewable Energy have announced. The plant is expected to be operational in September 2015. The decision follows a significant consultation and review process, and permit approval from […]
Jan 20 2015
Wels is the home of the World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED) with the main event the European Pellet Conference an event htat normally attracts around 600 participants. Adjacent at the Wels Exhibition ground organizes the Energisparmesse in english Expoenergy. The pellet conferense is organaised during two days February 25 – 26. The second day is […]
Jan 20 2015
PIX Pellet Nordic CIF 20.1.2015: EUR/MWh 30.08 (-0.04 from previous month),confidence intervall 29,90 – 30, 26 SEK/MWh 282.88 (+4.62 from previous month) Pellet Market – The pellet market has been quite calm due to the mild winter in Europe. Hawkins Wright Forest Energy Monitor (FEM) reports that many European utilities have high stocks and therefore […]
Jan 19 2015
RusForest engages Hekotek to build wood pellet plant in Magistralny, Russia Stockholm, 2015-01-19 — RusForest AB (publ) (“RusForest” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ OMX: RUSF), a Swedish forestry company with operations in Russia, has engaged AS Hekotek (“Hekotek”), a mechanical engineering company, to build a wood pellet production facility at the Company’s Magistralny sawmill in Eastern […]
Jan 18 2015
The sale of Green Circle BioEnergy to Enviva Partners became official on Jan. 5, the deal closing after a favorable ruling in the government’s mandatory test for the sale’s conformity with anti-trust laws. Swedish-owned Green Circle BioEnergy set up shop in Cottondale in 2008. The plant is now under control of the American-owed Enviva […]
Jan 16 2015
A new pellet plant in the village of Novaya Igirma, Irkutsk region (Eastern-Siberian part of Russia) constructed and started-up by Hekotek in November 2014 has now successfully reached the designed output capacity – 30 000 tons of wooden pellets annually. The plant is owned by Lesresurs LLC and run by their partner Swedish owned Rusforest. […]
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Jan 19 2018
Drax will convert fourth 645 MW unit to pellets
UK private owned utility Drax is to convert a fourth 645MW unit to 100 percent biomass firing at its Selby power plant. After conversion the unit will return to service in late 2018. The decision follows the results of a UK government consultation to control the cost of support for biomass under the Renewable Obligation […]
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