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Drax Idling Operations In Arkansas

Drax Idling Operations In ArkansasDrax has made the decision to cease operations and idle pellet plant facilities in Leola and Russellville, Ark. The plants will cease operations and idle beginning November 1, 2025; operations at other U.S. sites will remain...

Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In NC, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBox 

Columbia Plywood Amends Permit In Old Fort, Hopes To Add AirBurners FireBox  The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is accepting public comment on a draft air quality permit modification for Columbia Plywood...

American Loggers Council Letter Urges Trump To Act Quickly

American Loggers Council Letter Urges Trump To Act QuicklyAmerican Loggers Council along with American Biomass Energy Assn. and Forest Landowners Assn. has circulated a “stakeholder” letter addressed to President Trump and other key policymakers, and invited...

Evergreen Engineering Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

Evergreen Engineering Celebrates 40th Anniversary Evergreen Engineering, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 with headquarters in Eugene, Ore., originally served mainly the forest products industries (wood products and pulp & paper) that used to be predominant in the...

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Sugimat To Supply Biomass Steam Boiler For Olive Extractor

Olive marc extractor company Casa Alta–Sociedade Transformadora De Bagaços, LDA, has selected Sugimat for a new biomass-powered steam boiler and hot gas generator furnace for its productive process. Both machines will be fed with olive cake, a biomass product of the plant itself…

Bruks Siwertell Acquires West Salem Machinery

Bruks Siwertell Group has signed an acquisition contract for North American heavy machinery specialist, West Salem Machinery (WSM), effective July 1, 2023. The Oregon-based engineering and manufacturing company will continue to operate under its current name as a separate internal division within Bruks Siwertell…

Astec, Bejac Announce Distribution Agreement

Astec has announced Bejac Corp., a heavy equipment dealer with 10 locations, will represent the Peterson line of forestry and environmental recycling equipment in California and Arizona. Bejac, founded in 1953 operated as an underground pipeline contracting business until 1985 when the company pivoted to the heavy, specialty equipment sector…

Valmet To Convert Coal-Fired Boiler In Finland To Pellet-Fired

Valmet will be converting Helen Ltd.’s coal-fired district heat boiler to bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) combustion to enable wood pellet firing at the Salmisaari ‘A’ power plant in Helsinki, Finland. The conversion promotes the company’s goal of phasing out coal, while at the same time strengthening the construction of a sustainable energy system…

Biomass Machines Debut At Oregon Logging Conference

Suppliers and vendors of biomass processing equipment were well represented at this year’s Oregon Logging Conference in Eugene, Oregon in late February. The logging industry’s biggest equipment show featured a wide variety of logging systems and harvesting and processing equipment…

Vermeer Redesigns HG4000 Grinder

Vermeer has redesigned the Vermeer HG4000 horizontal grinder; this new generation delivers powerful performance in various wood waste recycling applications and landscaping material production. It’s equipped with a 536 HP (399.7-kW) CAT C13B T4F/Stage V diesel engine, a Series III duplex…

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