New Arkansas Industrial Wood Pellet Mill Raises Green Stakes
New Arkansas Industrial Wood Pellet Mill Raises Green Stakes
November 14: KASU
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New Arkansas Industrial Wood Pellet Mill Raises Green Stakes
More than 150 wood pellet manufacturing mills operate across the U.S., many supplying the domestic woodstove pellet market with home heating fuel.
More than a quarter are industrial pellet mills, grinding thousands of acres of forest into biomass for overseas export to electrical utilities stoking retrofitted coal-fire furnaces with “densified” wood.
The largest mills, concentrated in the southeastern U.S., claim to sustainably harvest timber, from both hardwood and softwood forests. But a new mill, Highland Pellets in Pine Bluff, which harvests only fast-growing Southern softwood pine may be …