Pinnacle CEO Rob McCurdy Is Retiring

Pinnacle CEO Rob McCurdy Is Retiring  Pinnacle’s Rob McCurdy addresses the Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo in 2018 Pinnacle Renewable Energy announced that Rob McCurdy has notified the company’s Board of Directors of his intention to retire as Chief...

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...