It is a leading US producer of wood pellets from fallen limbs, tree tops,
lumber mill waste, but mostly, farmed pine trees.
Not exact matches
The Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process
waste wood from a
lumber mill (PDA 1910).
Improvements in technology, science and a skilled workforce have improved
milling efficiency, resulting in production of more
lumber and less
waste.
Oh, and they take the weight of steel from engineers as a given, but for wood they add 15 % for
lumber yard and site cull, as if there has never been a piece of steel tossed into a bin on a job site, and another 25 % for
mill waste.
Heiken claims that effectiveley only 15 % of the
lumber ever gets to the stage that it is actually sequestering carbon, and the rest is lost to slash,
mill waste, processing and transport emissions.