A recent news report in agricultural website Capital Press says that timber companies need to be cautious when considering getting into the biomass business, according to expert Gareth Mayhead, academic coordinator for forest products at University of California-Berkeley. According to Mayhead, gasification and other liquid fuels technologies are not yet proven and are currently unfeasible for use [...]
Weyerhaeuser, Mitsubishi to Explore Biomass
Weyerhaeuser Co. has signed a deal with Mitsubishi Corp. to explore future biomass-to-energy deals. The two companies are interested in the feasibility of opening a commercial-scale production facility next year that would make pellets from woody biomass and sell them to utilities and industrial users for energy production.