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Pinnacle temporarily halts pellet production in Quesnel Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc. has announced that it will curtail operations at its Quesnel, B.C., pellet plant effective immediately. >> Read full article
Top 10 takeaways from Alberta Cofiring workshop How important was it for the bioenergy industry to fly the flag via a sold-out Biomass Co-Firing Workshop? Put it this way – despite the recent news-storm surrounding Alberta’s pledge to phase out its coal-fired power plants by 2030, none of the province’s major news outlets or business magazines had looked at bioenergy as an option. >> Read full article
Rentech offers update on Atikokan and Wawa plants Rentech, Inc.’s Atikokan wood pellet plant is producing at 80 to 90 per cent of capacity, according to Keith Forman, president and CEO of Rentech, who offered an update on the plants in his company’s first quarter results for 2016. >> Read full article

Featured News

Granules LG: Quebec’s pellet leader "Twenty years ago, we produced 4,700 tons of pellets. We now produce as much in only two weeks,” Granules LG general manager Ken St-Gelais proudly states. With recent investments for improved automation and controls, the St-Félicien mill, in the northern Lac-Saint-Jean region, produced 120,000 tons in 2015. And it is expected to reach 125,000 tons in 2016. “We have improved our productivity by eight per cent running on our same equipment,” St-Gelais explains. >> Learn More…


NEWS

Orangeville considering new biomass project If everything goes according to plan, Orangeville could soon be the home of an exciting new biomass project. >> Read full article
Graanul Invest buys Belgium’s Langerlo plant Europe's largest wood pellet producer, Estonia's Graanul Invest, has bought the 556MW Langerlo power plant and plans to convert it to burn biomass by the second half of 2017. >> Read full article
Land deal paves way for N.W.T. pellet mill It took a little longer than expected, but Aurora Wood Pellets Ltd. (AWP) has finally succeeded in securing land for a planned wood pellet mill in Enterprise, Northwest Territories. >> Read full article




Event Calendar

Webinar: Dust Explosion Mitigation II - Managing the dust June 29, 2016 >> More Info
Advanced Biofuels Symposium July 6-8, 2016 Location: Vancouver, B.C. >> More Info
PFI 2016 Annual Conference July 24, 2016 Location Asheville, N.C. >> More Info