Though differing in size, scope and market reach, the ultimate goals of domestic and industrial wood pellet projects are similar.
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Before construction began on the T&D Wood Energy pellet plant, the Maine Technology Institute conducted a design evaluation. This enabled the company and Player Design to select the best commercial technologies available for feedstock and fuel prepa
The domestic and industrial wood pellet industries are motivated and influenced by different objectives and market factors when it comes to building or expanding, thus resulting in differing business models and practices. Ultimately, however, the end game is the same—to decrease the use of fossil fuels.
In the U.S. export market, Enviva Partners—the world’s largest utility-grade wood pellet producer—is expanding production by 1 million tons in response to an increased demand for wood pellets, particularly in Asian markets. According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, there’s upward of 25 million tons of biomass demand on the country’s horizon. Enviva is building a new pellet production plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, and expanding facilities in Northampton County, North Carolina, and Southampton County, Virginia.
In contrast, T&D Wood Energy LLC—a family-owned business with a long involvement in forest products—recently opened a 35,000-ton capacity wood pellet plant in Sandford, Maine, to enter the home heating market in the Northeast U.S. Between the town of Sanford and the USDA providing incentives, and the nearby Pleasant River Lumber pine sawmill supplying much of the wood waste feedstock for pelletizing, the timing and opportunity were right. “We had been trying to build an industrial facility for quite a while under our F.E. Wood Natural Energy entity name,” says Tony Wood, who co-owns T&D Wood Energy with his father, Dean. “We decided that there’s no real opportunity for us to get into the industrial segment at this time. This is a new venture we put together and our first pellet manufacturing facility. The ownership of the plant has a lot of forest product experience in sawmills and pellet mills.”
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