Fordaq S.A.’s (Brussels, Belgium) The Timber Network website reported this past week that Andritz, Graz, Austria, has received an order from Enviva, a producer of woody biomass pellets, to supply woodyard equipment, engineering, and field services for two biomass pellet plants, each with a capacity of 500,000 tpy, to be built in the state of North Carolina in the U.S. 

 

Andritz will supply several innovative products for manufacturing high-quality mini-chips from round timber at high production rates. At the heart of the wood processing line is the HHQ30 chipper with TurnKnife system from Andritz Iggesund Tools. This combination of chipper and knife system is designed to produce the highest possible percentage of acceptable chips and the thinnest chip on the market.

 

Enviva currently owns and operates five wood pellet production plants throughout the southeastern U.S., and exports its product through terminals in Chesapeake, Va., and Mobile, Ala. So far, Enviva has a combined wood pellet production capacity of 1.7 million metric tpy.

 

Bloomberg Business News, New York City, N.Y., USA, reported just a little more than a week ago that Enviva had secured an additional $16 million to expand its production of cellulosic sugar from biomass.