Thursday, 28 April 2011 08:40

Indeck Energy: Fewer Fines Means Higher Quality Wood Pellets

LADYSMITH, WI – (April 26, 2011) –Indeck Energy Premium Wood Pellets, manufactured
by Indeck Ladysmith, LLC, contain about 80 percent less fines than required by the Pellet
Fuels Institute, creating less dust and preventing potentially costly maintenance issues
for consumers.

The Pellet Fuels Institute requires that fines in Premium Wood Pellet Fuel are measured
at or below one half percent (0.5%) of a package’s total content.  Over the lifetime of
production, Indeck Ladysmith has averaged less than one tenth of one percent (0.1%),
well below the required specification.

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Last Updated on Monday, 14 March 2011 07:32

Wood Pellet Export from US and Canada to Europe Reached 1.6 Million Tons in 2010

Over the past two years, North America has become a major supplier of wood pellets to Europe. In 2010, an estimated 1.6 million tons of pellets were shipped from the US and Canada to the Netherlands, the UK and Belgium, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. This is a doubling of volume compared to 2008.

Seattle, WA, March 12, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The European Union has stated that by 2020, at least 20 percent of total energy consumption should be supplied by renewable energy resources. In an effort to reach this target, many countries have increased their consumption of woody biomass in the form of both wood chips and pellets the past few years. In 2010, just over 11 million tons of wood pellets were consumed, which was about seven percent higher than the previous year.

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Global trade of wood chips was up in 2010 after a sharp decline in 2009, reports the WRQ

Global trade of wood chips was up 25% in 2010 because of increased production of pulp and paper products worldwide. China showed the greatest growth in chip imports with an increase over 400% in the past two years, as reported by the WRQ.


PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 08, 2011 – Seattle, USA. The international financial crisis in 2009 had a major negative impact on worldwide demand for pulp and paper products. As a result, the consumption of wood chips and pulpwood for pulp production was lower, and global trade of wood chips fell accordingly. However, in 2010, pulp markets improved and global shipments of wood chips were up substantially.

Wood chip trade had increased on average five percent per year between 2002 and 2008, reaching an all-time high of approximately 33 million tons in 2008. This upward trend was broken in 2009, when trade fell 17 percent from the previous year. In 2010, wood chip shipment volumes went up by 25 percent to reach a new high. This was primarily thanks to a substantial increase in demand for wood chips in China, as reported in the latest issue of the Wood Resource Quarterly.

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New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy’s potential

Because our brains are controlled by history and habit we tend to think about things the way we thought about them yesterday.

It means we’re missing the opportunity for bioenergy says Brian Cox.

The Executive Officer of the Bioenergy Association of New Zealand is passionate about how we could use what now is simply wasted, as well as bits of surplus land which can be used to grow sources of energy in different forms.

It should be noted that Cox is no green-tinged, environmentally and economically unrealistic airhead. Wearing his other daytime hat, he’s the director of East Harbour Energy, a consulting business with a strong strategic emphasis, and the nous to crunch pragmatic numbers.

In the first instance Cox is talking about forestry waste, in the second the ability to grow short rotation energy crops such as Miscanthus (a kind of tall grass to you and me).
To this end, the Association’s produced a remarkably readable ‘New Zealand Bioenergy Strategy’, which lays out how we can get from now to its vision; namely.

‘Economic growth and employment built on New Zealand’s capability and expertise in forestry, wood processing and bioenergy production – leading to new business opportunities which by 2040 supply more than 25% of the country’s energy needs, including 30% of the country’s transport fuels.’

But let’s back up a step or two.

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