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In production
Renewable Densified Fuel, LLC, an affiliate of Flambeau River Papers in Park Falls, Wisconsin, began producing wood pellets from sawmill residue and other waste wood in October, 2008. The 13 tons of pellets produced daily are used to generate steam and electricity for papermaking and are the first phase in the mill’s plans to become fossil-fuel independent.
Great Lakes Renewable Energy started up its wood pellet production facility near Hayward, Wisconsin. Yearly capacity is 83,000-tons.
In development
Atikokan Renewable Fuels plans to invest an initial $15 million to convert a particleboard plant in Atikokan, Ontario to produce conventional wood pellets and the company’s patented industrial high-energy wood pellet for use in industrial boilers.
Canadian Bio Pellet Inc. is planning a $80 million pellet plant in Ingleside, Ontario. The facility will have a total capacity of 450,000 tonnes and employ 85 to 110 employees. Much of the wood supply would come from within a 150-kilometre radius and use the forestry supply lines of the former Domtar mill in Cornwall.
Fibre Brain is a new company planning to open a wood pellet plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It expects to be operating by fall of 2009 and hopes to produce 32,000 tons of wood pellets per year.
New Gas Concepts announced plans to build a $118 million pellet plant in Jackson, Alabama to be completed in late 2010. It would have a capacity of 600,000 tons per year, making it the largest such mill in the world. The company’s $75 million facility, Dixie Pellets, opened in Selma in 2008 with a capacity of 500,000 tons per year.
Renewafuel LLC, a subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources, plans to build a 100,000 square-foot pellet plant near Orr, Minnesota expected to be in operation in late 2009. Superior Pellet Fuel’s facility, Alaska’s first large-scale wood pellet plant, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009 near Fairbanks. It will offer residents a cheaper alternative to costly fuel oil.
Superior Wood Products propose building a wood pellet plant near Ino in northwest Wisconsin on the site of the defunct Forest Fuel Corp.
Vermont Pellet Works Corporation has received approval from the town of Lyndon, Vermont to build a wood pellet plant which will produce up to 75,000 tons per year.
In discussion
The mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia is interested in transforming the former Federal Gypsum plant in Port Hastings into a wood pellet plant.
North Shore Forest Products Marketing Board (NSFPMB ) of South Tetagouche, New Brunswick, would like to see a wood pellet plant established in Bathurst, N.B..
The Annapolis Digby Economic Development Agency in Nova Scotia is interested in developing a community-owned energy corporation to produce wood pellets. The Agency's analysis indicates a local pellet market of at least 10,000 tonnes per year could be developed.
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