Europe’s Largest Pellet Producer Comes To Atlanta

Europe’s Largest Pellet Producer Comes To Atlanta Graanul Invest, Europe’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, is bound for the Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo, March 10-11, 2020, at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta. Well, not the whole company,...

Drax Appoints White To Lead U.S.

Drax Appoints White To Lead U.S. Drax Biomass, Inc. announced that Matt White is its new Senior Vice President overseeing Drax’s U.S. biomass operations from its headquarters in Monroe, La. Drax Biomass operates industrial wood pellet plants in Bastrop, La.; Urania,...

Enviva Pellet Plant Receives Thumbs Up

Enviva Pellet Plant Receives Thumbs Up Enviva, the world’s largest producer of wood pellets, reports that the Alabama Dept. of Environmental Management (ADEM) approved a permit allowing Enviva to construct a wood pellet facility in Sumter County. This permit paves the...

Pinnacle, Westervelt, Two Rivers Come Together

Pinnacle, Westervelt, Two Rivers Come Together Pinnacle Renewable Energy plans to build an industrial wood pellet production facility in the Southeast U.S. at Demopolis, Ala., in close proximity to its Aliceville, Ala. facility. The new mill will be located adjacent...

Post-Michael Salvage Winds Down

Post-Michael Salvage Winds Down Estimates of successful wood salvage on timberland damaged by Hurricane Michael along the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia range from 10-16%, according to some authorities. Making landfall on October 10, 2018 near Mexico Beach in...

OSHA Increases Inspections, Safety Training Sessions

OSHA Increases Inspections, Safety Training Sessions in 2019 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) fiscal year 2019 final statistics show a significant increase in the number of inspections and a record amount of...