The Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) and the American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) recently marked the first critical step in the roll out of the new densified biomass fuel standard for North America through the accreditation of ten auditing agencies and two laboratories to the PFI Standards Program. Under the supervision of ALSC, the program’s accreditation [...]
ALSC Announces Approved Agency For Wood Pellet Certification
The American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) recently announced that Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau will serve as a third-party auditing agency of the Pellet Fuels Institute’s (PFI) densified wood pellet monitoring and labeling program, as administered by the ALSC. According to the PFI, at least 27 companies representing 41 pellet manufacturing mills have pledged to support [...]
World’s Largest Wood Pellet-Based Power Plant Set To Go Online
The world’s largest wood pellet-based biomass power plant, RWE npower’s Tilbury, England facility, will be fully commissioned and producing electricity by the end of January, according to company officials. The plant will generate nearly 750 MW of electricity using wood pellets produced at RWE’s Waycross, Ga. facility. The facility is currently running two of three [...]
Enviva Announces Wood Pellet Facility In Virginia
Enviva LP, a leading manufacturer of processed biomass fuel in the United States and Europe, announced on December 1 that it is planning to build a 454,000 metric ton wood pellet manufacturing facility in Courtland, Va., which could begin operations as early as the first half of 2013. The project is contingent on the property [...]
German Pellets To Build Huge Plant In East Texas
German Pellets is coming to America. The largest wood pellet manufacturer in Europe is building its first pellet plant in the U.S. in Tyler County, East Texas. The company intends to manufacture 500,000 metric tons of wood pellets per year, with the first pellets produced in the third quarter of 2012. German Pellets plans to [...]
Largest Pellet Plant Opens at Waycross
Georgia Biomass held its official ribbon cutting ceremony in mid-May at its new operation just outside Waycross, Ga., hosting dignitaries and officials from around the world at the opening of the world’s largest wood fuel pellet plant. The facility, scheduled to be at full capacity by this fall, can produce up to 750,000 metric [...]
Allegheny Wood Products to Start Pellet Company
A lumber company in Preston County is branching out into a new industry and creating new jobs. Allegheny Wood Products has started a second company, Appalachian Wood Pellets, to produce wood pellets used as heating fuel in residential pellet stoves. John Crites II is president of both, even though Appalachian Wood Pellets is a separate [...]