Forest industry colleagues temporarily put their business challenges behind them and converged near Smithfield, North Carolina for the Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo October 7-8. Preliminary calculations put the number of participants at approximately 3,000. Estimated value of the equipment, technology and supplies demonstrated or displayed was more than $100 million. “The weather was perfect, [...]
Woody Biomass Supply Chains Conference & VIP Tour Of The Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo
Conference Overview The production of energy from woody biomass can be an important component of a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy security. Biomass represents 79% of independent renewable energy generation in North Carolina and will continue to represent a large portion of the renewable energy portfolio for the foreseeable future. [...]
Enviva Tells Of Second NC Pellet Plant, Eyes Third In Area
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, will build a second $60 million wood pellet manufacturing facility in North Carolina, just off I-95 at Garysburg, near the Virginia state line. Projected to be operational by the fall of 2012, the plant go up 52 miles west of [...]
North Carolina Research Keeping Biomass ‘Under Wraps’
Keeping biomass ‘under wraps’ is part of an ongoing biomass drying study that the North Carolina Association of Professional Loggers is conducting along with the North Carolina State University School of Forestry and Environmental Resources. The process, which it utilized to record moisture loss during air drying, is part of a treatment that uses heavy [...]