Wood pellets prices up in Europe
Increase in Demand for Wood Pellets Pushed Prices Upward in Europe in 4Q/08, Reports WRQ
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Trees instead of ethanol...It didn't take long for the debate on biofuels to heat up again, despite the bottom-of-the-barrel price of oil and an economy in the drink. This time, it was a study published in the February issue of Science that said corn-based ethanol could add nearly twice as many greenhouse emissions as fossil fuels. Not to be left out, the California State Regulators, among others, have jumped into the fray and now seem ready to declare that biofuel will not help reduce global warming.
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19. Mai 2009: Hawkins Wright hat den ersten Bericht über weltweite Energieholzpreise veröffentlicht (in Englisch) - The Forest Energy Monitor - (Text aus Archiv als Download, 1.8 MB).
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Sunday, 14th of June 2009: An Italian court has ordered the recall of 10,000 tonnes of wood fuel pellets imported from Lithuania over fears that they could have dangerous levels of radioactivity, newspapers reported on Sunday.
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Sonntag, 14.6.2009: In Italien sind 10.000 Tonnen Holzpellets aus Litauen wegen möglicher radioaktiver Verschmutzung vom Markt genommen worden. Wie die italienische Tageszeitung "La Stampa" heute berichtete, wurde die Rückrufaktion am Vortag von der Staatsanwaltschaft im norditalienischen Aosta angeordnet.
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Russian sawmill to increase Pellets productionStart-up of pellet production at Sawmill 25 (Arkhangelsk region) has become the final stage of the sawmill’s modernization programme aimed at the whole technological process upgrading that has been realized since 2004.
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Wood pellets for Europe from Papua New Guinea?Conservation International (CI) and the Medco foundation joined in a partnership to develop spatial planning scenarios for wood pellet plantations in southern Papua.
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MGT Power have announced plans for second biomass power plantMGT Power Ltd has announced plans to develop a second major biomass power generation project at the Port of Tyne in the North Tyneside. The proposed 295MW Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (Tyne REP) will be located on industrial land in the Port of Tyne, North Shields and is 10 kms east of Newcas
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International wood pellets markets - a retrospection on 2008The use of wood pellets as fuel for domestic stoves and boilers and for co-firing in thermal power plants has been an amazing success story over the past 10 years. Recently, the exorbitant speed of growth caused supply problems and a slowdown of markets, but the next boom is waiting, says Christian Rakos.
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Sweden consumes more than 20% of the world’s wood pellets and demand is growingThe decision by EU to use a minimum of 20% renewable energy by 2020 has driven a rapid increase in wood pellet production in Europe. Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the UK are expected to have the fastest growth in consumption the coming 10 years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
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Enligna is expanding its wood pellet mill in Nova Scotia
Enligna Canada, a wood pellet manufacturer, is expanding its production capabilities in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia to meet international demands.
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Atikokan coal plant to switch to wood pelletsOntario Power Generation is switching its coal-fired power plant in Atikokan to a biomass burning plant by 2012.
The plan is to burn wood pellets instead of coal.
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Filling a Need: Forest Plantations for Bioenergy in the SouthThe growing number of renewable energy projects in the Southern U.S. utilizing woody biomass will require the development of short-rotation bioenergy plantations.
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Wood Pellets Catch Fire as Renewable Energy Source Some of the fastest growing sources of renewable energy in the world are the wind, the sun -- and the lowly wood pellet.
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Pellets from Russia; PelletsImplementing the strategy of production technology development at the sawmill implied increasing volume of production wastes, while traditional deliveries of the sawmill wastes (chips) to pulp mills came to nothing. Today one can say that the direction chosen was absolutely correct. According to the results of the two last years, the pellet plant of “DoK “Enisey” is the largest pellet producer in Russia – an optimized production consisting of 3 lines (hourly capacity 3.5 ton each). Pellets are exported from Russia, consumers being very much satisfied with the quality of Siberian pellets.
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Bio-fuel levy the last straw for NZ forest ownersA NZ Government decision to make big companies pay for some of their greenhouse gas emissions when using wood pellets and other biofuels is seen as the last straw by many in the forest industry. Reports Friday Off Cuts
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Britain cuts down forests to keep ‘green’ power stations burningBritain is set to plunder the lungs of the world to feed its growing hunger for wood to burn in power stations.
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Pellets compete Pulp&PaperWood Pellet Producers are Increasingly Competing with Pulp Manufacturers for Wood Fiber
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White River Forest Products is eager to start up in 2010White River Forest Products is eager to start up the former Domtar sawmill in White River, Ontario in 2010.
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Vyborgskaya Cellulose and Ekman & Co collaborate on the world's largest wood pellet plant in RussiaMoscow. Jan 26, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Vyborgskaya Cellulose is building the world's largest wood pellet plant at its facility in Russia near the border with Finland. Production capacity will be over 900,000 tons per year.
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RWE Innogy to establish one of the biggest wood pellet plants in the South of USRWE Innogy is to build a factory to produce biomass pellets in the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 750,000 tonnes, making it the biggest and most modern of its type in the world, the company says. Around 1.5 million metric tonnes of fresh wood are needed each year to produce 750,000 tonnes of pellets.
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New pellet facility in Russia CJSC North-West Group of Companies finished works on construction of pellet mill worth 300 mln RUR (€ 7.14 mln) in Podporozhye (Leningrad region) with Anritz (Denmark), BRUKS (Germany) and Komforts (Latvia) machinery installed.
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Weyerhaeuser & Mitsubishi jointly exploring biomass
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Tomsk region to develop pellet production LLC Sandzhikles (Tomsk region) - harvesting and woodworking mill – put an advanced sawmilling plant in 2010, which allows selling high quality sawn timber.
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Enviva LP Signs Long-Term Wood Pellet Supply Agreement with Utility Electrabel, Group GDF SUEZEnviva Will Supply Biomass to Meet Half of a Major Power Plant's Fuel Requirements, Powering Hundreds of Thousands of Homes with Renewable Energy.
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Pinnacle Pellet breaks ground on new plantPinnacle Pellet has officially broken ground on a new pellet plant to be built near Burns Lake, British Columbia.
The plant will produce wood pellets from mountain pine beetle killed wood.
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Swedes look into black pellet production in B.C.Vattenfall, a company owned by the government of Sweden, is exploring the idea of turning wood from British Columbia's northwest, into pellets to burn in European power plants.
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Rated output reached at Novoyeniseysky LKhK Project manager of Novoeniseysky LKhK pellet mill construction (Krasnoyarsk Kray) Alari Roosi has visited the enterprise again after a month and a half since the launch of production.
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World’s largest wood pellet plant plannedVyborgskaya Cellulose, a Russian pulp and paper maker, said that it expected to start producing pellets that can be used in heat and electricity generation from its plant in Vyborg by the end of the year reports Tree Frog Daily Forestry NewsThe plant, located in northwest Russia, wil
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Explosion at Pacific BioEnergy’s pellet plant in Prince George, B.C.On Friday night an explosion blasted the Pacific BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Prince George, British Columbia.
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Nashwaak Valley Wood Energy to start second shift at pellet plantNashwaak Valley Wood Energy Inc. will be adding a second shift to its wood pellet plant near Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The company is co-owned by 125 local shareholders – most of whom are local woodlot owners. The plant has been open for a year.
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Cause of explosion at Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant determinedThe cause of the explosion and resulting fire at the Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant in Prince George, British Columbia on December 17, 2010 was been determined.
The blast was ignited by sparks in the plant’s fibre drying system.
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Pellet production plant has already been opened in Arkhangelsk region
New pellet production mini-plant has already been put into operation in Nyandoma (Arkhangelsk region).
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Explosion at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, B.C.
An explosion occurred at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, British Columbia on Saturday night.
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Energy Task Force explores wood pellets as coal alternative
In meetings last year, the Energy Task Force extolled the virtues of biomass as a coal alternative — but not without voicing concerns.
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OOO “Russian Pellet” will recieve a credit at the amount of 202.8 mln rubles
«Russian Pellet» company was established in order to implement the investment project aimed at creation of the state-of-the-art production with the rated output of up to 32.4 tsnd tons of pellets per year. According to the project one of the major plants in the Volga Region will satisfy the demand of European consumers and provide them with the most up-to-date eco friendly biofuel.
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Wood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached 1.6 million tons in 2010
Wood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached 1.6 million tons in 2010, a doubling of shipments in just two years, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review
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Energieholzpreise Österreich
Marktanalyse II: Energieholzpreise
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Price analyses of wooden bioenergy in Austria:
Charts and Study are in German language - english legends enclosed by ForesIndustries.EU:
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Biomass Secure Power announces approval of new pellet plant in B.C.
Biomass Secure Power Inc.has announced a Project start date of July 1st 2011 for the construction of their first 500,000 tonne/yr whitewood pellet plant has been accepted by its Board of Directors.
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Strategic forescasting of European biomass demandBEDFORD, MA, Aug. 8, 2011 (RISI) - As European countries push forward to meet renewable energy goals of 20% by 2020, demand for imported biomass -- specifically, wood pellets -- will rise.
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New school in Fredericton to be heated with wood pelletsA new school being constructed in Fredericton, New Brunswick will be the first in the province to be heated with wood pellets.
The school will be equipped with a wood pellet fired hot water boiler.
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Enligna Canada in receivership; Pellet mill closes in Nova ScotiaEnligna Canada closed its wood pellet mill in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia several days ago.
Today comes the news that the company has formally been placed in receivership and 50 people are out of work.
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RusForest intends to acquire Clean Tech East Holding’s pellet businessRusForest's Board has signed a tender letter to Clean Tech East regarding an acquisition of all shares in Clean Tech East's wholly owned subsidiaries EBH and BEN - which together form Clean Tech East's Biomass Fuels business segment, whose business is to manufacture and sell wood pellets.
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Viridis Energy buys Enligna wood pellet plant in Nova ScotiaViridis Energy Inc. of Vancouver has purchased Enligna Canada Inc. wood pellet plant in Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia.
The purchase is subject to court approval because Enlinga Canada is in receivership. The plant has been closed since August, 2011.
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Industrial wood pellet prices flat in EuropeAs a result of global wood pellet supply significantly exceeding demand during the last two to three years, industrial wood pellet prices in Europe have been flat to decreasing slightly on a euro basis. Prices increased from €115/tonne in July 2007 to €140/tonne at the beginning of 2009.
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North American pellet grew almost triple the growth rate of European productionDuring the last two years, global wood pellet production increased from about nine million tonnes to some 15-16 million tonnes, while apparent consumption expanded from about nine million to 13 million tonnes.
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Wood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached a record highWood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached arecord high in the 4Q/11 thanks to increased demand in the United Kingdom, reports the North American Wood FiberReview
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US now largest wood pellet exporter in the worldPellet exports from the two primary pellet-producing regions on the North American continent, the U.S.
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Wood pellet exports from North America climb 50%Pellet exports from the two primary pellet-producing regions on the North American continent – the US South and British Columbia – showed no signs of slowing in early 2013, with the rate of growth likely to accelerate in the second half of the year.
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Wood pellets prices up in Europe
Increase in Demand for Wood Pellets Pushed Prices Upward in Europe in 4Q/08, Reports WRQ
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Trees instead of ethanol...It didn't take long for the debate on biofuels to heat up again, despite the bottom-of-the-barrel price of oil and an economy in the drink. This time, it was a study published in the February issue of Science that said corn-based ethanol could add nearly twice as many greenhouse emissions as fossil fuels. Not to be left out, the California State Regulators, among others, have jumped into the fray and now seem ready to declare that biofuel will not help reduce global warming.
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19. Mai 2009: Hawkins Wright hat den ersten Bericht über weltweite Energieholzpreise veröffentlicht (in Englisch) - The Forest Energy Monitor - (Text aus Archiv als Download, 1.8 MB).
|
Sunday, 14th of June 2009: An Italian court has ordered the recall of 10,000 tonnes of wood fuel pellets imported from Lithuania over fears that they could have dangerous levels of radioactivity, newspapers reported on Sunday.
|
Sonntag, 14.6.2009: In Italien sind 10.000 Tonnen Holzpellets aus Litauen wegen möglicher radioaktiver Verschmutzung vom Markt genommen worden. Wie die italienische Tageszeitung "La Stampa" heute berichtete, wurde die Rückrufaktion am Vortag von der Staatsanwaltschaft im norditalienischen Aosta angeordnet.
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Russian sawmill to increase Pellets productionStart-up of pellet production at Sawmill 25 (Arkhangelsk region) has become the final stage of the sawmill’s modernization programme aimed at the whole technological process upgrading that has been realized since 2004.
|
Wood pellets for Europe from Papua New Guinea?Conservation International (CI) and the Medco foundation joined in a partnership to develop spatial planning scenarios for wood pellet plantations in southern Papua.
|
MGT Power have announced plans for second biomass power plantMGT Power Ltd has announced plans to develop a second major biomass power generation project at the Port of Tyne in the North Tyneside. The proposed 295MW Tyne Renewable Energy Plant (Tyne REP) will be located on industrial land in the Port of Tyne, North Shields and is 10 kms east of Newcas
|
International wood pellets markets - a retrospection on 2008The use of wood pellets as fuel for domestic stoves and boilers and for co-firing in thermal power plants has been an amazing success story over the past 10 years. Recently, the exorbitant speed of growth caused supply problems and a slowdown of markets, but the next boom is waiting, says Christian Rakos.
|
Sweden consumes more than 20% of the world’s wood pellets and demand is growingThe decision by EU to use a minimum of 20% renewable energy by 2020 has driven a rapid increase in wood pellet production in Europe. Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the UK are expected to have the fastest growth in consumption the coming 10 years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.
|
Enligna is expanding its wood pellet mill in Nova Scotia
Enligna Canada, a wood pellet manufacturer, is expanding its production capabilities in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia to meet international demands.
|
Atikokan coal plant to switch to wood pelletsOntario Power Generation is switching its coal-fired power plant in Atikokan to a biomass burning plant by 2012.
The plan is to burn wood pellets instead of coal.
|
Filling a Need: Forest Plantations for Bioenergy in the SouthThe growing number of renewable energy projects in the Southern U.S. utilizing woody biomass will require the development of short-rotation bioenergy plantations.
|
Wood Pellets Catch Fire as Renewable Energy Source Some of the fastest growing sources of renewable energy in the world are the wind, the sun -- and the lowly wood pellet.
|
Pellets from Russia; PelletsImplementing the strategy of production technology development at the sawmill implied increasing volume of production wastes, while traditional deliveries of the sawmill wastes (chips) to pulp mills came to nothing. Today one can say that the direction chosen was absolutely correct. According to the results of the two last years, the pellet plant of “DoK “Enisey” is the largest pellet producer in Russia – an optimized production consisting of 3 lines (hourly capacity 3.5 ton each). Pellets are exported from Russia, consumers being very much satisfied with the quality of Siberian pellets.
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Bio-fuel levy the last straw for NZ forest ownersA NZ Government decision to make big companies pay for some of their greenhouse gas emissions when using wood pellets and other biofuels is seen as the last straw by many in the forest industry. Reports Friday Off Cuts
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Britain cuts down forests to keep ‘green’ power stations burningBritain is set to plunder the lungs of the world to feed its growing hunger for wood to burn in power stations.
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Pellets compete Pulp&PaperWood Pellet Producers are Increasingly Competing with Pulp Manufacturers for Wood Fiber
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White River Forest Products is eager to start up in 2010White River Forest Products is eager to start up the former Domtar sawmill in White River, Ontario in 2010.
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Hekotek to win the Russian market: new order from Siberia for pellet plant November 2009 AS Hekotek (Estonia) and Novoeniseysk LKhK (Russia, Krasnoyarsk area) signed an agreement on construction of a pellet plant with sawmilling wastes to be used as a raw material. The plant is to be launched summer 2010.
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Vyborgskaya Cellulose and Ekman & Co collaborate on the world's largest wood pellet plant in RussiaMoscow. Jan 26, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. Vyborgskaya Cellulose is building the world's largest wood pellet plant at its facility in Russia near the border with Finland. Production capacity will be over 900,000 tons per year.
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RWE Innogy to establish one of the biggest wood pellet plants in the South of USRWE Innogy is to build a factory to produce biomass pellets in the southern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The plant will have an annual production capacity of 750,000 tonnes, making it the biggest and most modern of its type in the world, the company says. Around 1.5 million metric tonnes of fresh wood are needed each year to produce 750,000 tonnes of pellets.
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New pellet facility in Russia CJSC North-West Group of Companies finished works on construction of pellet mill worth 300 mln RUR (€ 7.14 mln) in Podporozhye (Leningrad region) with Anritz (Denmark), BRUKS (Germany) and Komforts (Latvia) machinery installed.
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ANRDRITZ FEED & BIOFUEL’s global market leader for wood pelleting plants
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Weyerhaeuser & Mitsubishi jointly exploring biomass
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Tomsk region to develop pellet production LLC Sandzhikles (Tomsk region) - harvesting and woodworking mill – put an advanced sawmilling plant in 2010, which allows selling high quality sawn timber.
|
Enviva LP Signs Long-Term Wood Pellet Supply Agreement with Utility Electrabel, Group GDF SUEZEnviva Will Supply Biomass to Meet Half of a Major Power Plant's Fuel Requirements, Powering Hundreds of Thousands of Homes with Renewable Energy.
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Pinnacle Pellet breaks ground on new plantPinnacle Pellet has officially broken ground on a new pellet plant to be built near Burns Lake, British Columbia.
The plant will produce wood pellets from mountain pine beetle killed wood.
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Swedes look into black pellet production in B.C.Vattenfall, a company owned by the government of Sweden, is exploring the idea of turning wood from British Columbia's northwest, into pellets to burn in European power plants.
|
Rated output reached at Novoyeniseysky LKhK Project manager of Novoeniseysky LKhK pellet mill construction (Krasnoyarsk Kray) Alari Roosi has visited the enterprise again after a month and a half since the launch of production.
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World’s largest wood pellet plant plannedVyborgskaya Cellulose, a Russian pulp and paper maker, said that it expected to start producing pellets that can be used in heat and electricity generation from its plant in Vyborg by the end of the year reports Tree Frog Daily Forestry NewsThe plant, located in northwest Russia, wil
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Explosion at Pacific BioEnergy’s pellet plant in Prince George, B.C.On Friday night an explosion blasted the Pacific BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Prince George, British Columbia.
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Nashwaak Valley Wood Energy to start second shift at pellet plantNashwaak Valley Wood Energy Inc. will be adding a second shift to its wood pellet plant near Fredericton, New Brunswick.
The company is co-owned by 125 local shareholders – most of whom are local woodlot owners. The plant has been open for a year.
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Cause of explosion at Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant determinedThe cause of the explosion and resulting fire at the Pacific BioEnergy Pellet Plant in Prince George, British Columbia on December 17, 2010 was been determined.
The blast was ignited by sparks in the plant’s fibre drying system.
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Pellet production plant has already been opened in Arkhangelsk region
New pellet production mini-plant has already been put into operation in Nyandoma (Arkhangelsk region).
|
Explosion at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, B.C.
An explosion occurred at Pinnacle Pellet in Armstrong, British Columbia on Saturday night.
|
Energy Task Force explores wood pellets as coal alternative
In meetings last year, the Energy Task Force extolled the virtues of biomass as a coal alternative — but not without voicing concerns.
|
OOO “Russian Pellet” will recieve a credit at the amount of 202.8 mln rubles
«Russian Pellet» company was established in order to implement the investment project aimed at creation of the state-of-the-art production with the rated output of up to 32.4 tsnd tons of pellets per year. According to the project one of the major plants in the Volga Region will satisfy the demand of European consumers and provide them with the most up-to-date eco friendly biofuel.
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Wood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached 1.6 million tons in 2010
Wood pellet exports from the US and Canada to Europe reached 1.6 million tons in 2010, a doubling of shipments in just two years, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review
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Energieholzpreise Österreich
Marktanalyse II: Energieholzpreise
|
Price analyses of wooden bioenergy in Austria:
Charts and Study are in German language - english legends enclosed by ForesIndustries.EU:
|
Biomass Secure Power announces approval of new pellet plant in B.C.
Biomass Secure Power Inc.has announced a Project start date of July 1st 2011 for the construction of their first 500,000 tonne/yr whitewood pellet plant has been accepted by its Board of Directors.
|
Strategic forescasting of European biomass demandBEDFORD, MA, Aug. 8, 2011 (RISI) - As European countries push forward to meet renewable energy goals of 20% by 2020, demand for imported biomass -- specifically, wood pellets -- will rise.
|
New school in Fredericton to be heated with wood pelletsA new school being constructed in Fredericton, New Brunswick will be the first in the province to be heated with wood pellets.
The school will be equipped with a wood pellet fired hot water boiler.
|
Enligna Canada in receivership; Pellet mill closes in Nova ScotiaEnligna Canada closed its wood pellet mill in Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia several days ago.
Today comes the news that the company has formally been placed in receivership and 50 people are out of work.
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RusForest intends to acquire Clean Tech East Holding’s pellet businessRusForest's Board has signed a tender letter to Clean Tech East regarding an acquisition of all shares in Clean Tech East's wholly owned subsidiaries EBH and BEN - which together form Clean Tech East's Biomass Fuels business segment, whose business is to manufacture and sell wood pellets.
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Viridis Energy buys Enligna wood pellet plant in Nova ScotiaViridis Energy Inc. of Vancouver has purchased Enligna Canada Inc. wood pellet plant in Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia.
The purchase is subject to court approval because Enlinga Canada is in receivership. The plant has been closed since August, 2011.
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Industrial wood pellet prices flat in EuropeAs a result of global wood pellet supply significantly exceeding demand during the last two to three years, industrial wood pellet prices in Europe have been flat to decreasing slightly on a euro basis. Prices increased from €115/tonne in July 2007 to €140/tonne at the beginning of 2009.
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