Sentences with phrase «wood pellet industry»

While the budding threat looms, there's a fair argument to be made that the wood pellet industry gives landowners another market to consider when calculating a harvest and could prompt the cutting of marginal tracts.

And even scientists who give tentative points to the wood pellet industry's sustainability measures are concerned about the potential scale of the new industry.

By contrast, the U.S. wood pellet industry will use an estimated 22 million tons of wood in 2017.

BY Ron KotrbaCanada's wood pellet industry stands patiently ready to deliver domestic supply as a federal Clean Fuel Standard and complementary support mechanisms develop.

Organized by an Asheville, N.C. - based environmental group called the Dogwood Alliance, the protest is the latest move by activists to draw attention to the wood pellet industry's growth in the South, where they allege forests are being chopped down unsustainably so European nations can meet renewable energy targets.

Not exact matches

According to Hawkins Wright, a leading provider of market intelligence and analytical services to the international pulp, paper and biomass industries, the Japanese market represented three per cent of global demand for industrial wood pellets in 2016, and Wright forecasts an increase to approximately 10 per cent of global demand in 2021, and 17 per cent in 2026.

Richmond, B.C. - headquartered Pinnacle Renewable Holdings Inc., an industrial wood pellet manufacturer and distributor, has entered into a long - term contract with Ube Industries Ltd., a diversified Japanese conglomerate with annual revenues of approximately US$ 6 billion.

Processing the biomass for energy use (converting trees into wood pellets, for instance) and shipping it overseas only adds to the total emissions produced by the industry, he noted.

Brinkema leads a group that sets sustainability certification standards for forest products, which are independently verified for industry players like timber or wood pellet companies.

Part two shows that, contrary to some industry claims, the brunt of the wood in pellets is from hardwood trees, not scrap and waste.

Now, most European biomass pellets are made from sawdust, a byproduct of the wood processing industry, Mr. Zannoni said.

However, she based her study on residue - derived wood pellets anyway because the biomass industry «so often claims residues are a main pellet source.»

Martin Bentele, Executive officer of the German Wood and Pellet Energy Association (DEPV), notes that 90 % of the wood converted to pellets is waste recovered from Germany's furniture industry.