DGAP-News: German Pellets to Build Second US Pellet Plant
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German Pellets to Build Second US Pellet Plant
17.04.2013 / 13:18
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German Pellets to Build Second US Pellet Plant
Production of about 1 million tonnes of wood pellets per year in Louisiana
/ Construction to begin in April / Commissioning in spring of 2014
Wismar, April 2013: German Pellets is further expanding its production
capacities in North America. In Urania, a town in northern Louisiana,
German Pellets will soon begin construction work on a new pellet production
facility. The output will be about 1 million tonnes of wood pellets per
year. Urania will be the German Pellets Group's second North American site.
In April a plant will open for production in Woodville, Texas.
'Once again, we have chosen a site with well-established wood supplies and
logistics,' said Peter Leibold, manager of the German Pellets Group. Until
a few years ago Urania had been an important location for the wood-based
panel industry. The US company Georgia Pacific had produced particleboard
and other products at this site. Supply infrastructure and other
infrastructure, including a railway siding, are already in place.
Construction on the new plant will begin soon.
The decisive factor for the choice of location was the availability of raw
materials in this densely forested region, where the annual timber
increment is significantly higher than in Germany owing to the subtropical
climate.
The forestry industry is the second largest employer in the well-wooded
state of Louisiana. The forests are managed sustainably. The new German
Pellets production facility in Urania will create some 500 jobs in the
region, both directly and indirectly.
German Pellets will produce one million tonnes of wood pellets per year in
Urania, twice as much as in its first US plant in Woodville, Texas. 'Pellet
consumption worldwide is on the rise, especially in Europe. This means that
the construction of large production capacities is necessary,' said German
Pellets CEO Peter Leibold. The demand from the European power plant market
for the production of heat and electricity from wood pellets has risen
sharply. There is also an increasing demand for wood pellets among private
consumers and large-scale users, for example for supplying heat to
hospitals, schools, commercial buildings and industrial facilities.
For the transport of wood pellets from the Urania and Woodville sites to
Europe, German Pellets will be using the harbour of Port Arthur on the Gulf
of Mexico. At the deep-water port, German Pellets operates storage and
loading systems.
About German Pellets
German Pellets GmbH was founded in 2005 in Wismar (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Germany) and has since become the leading manufacturer of wood pellets in
Europe. German Pellets produces wood pellets and animal-hygiene products at
14 sites in Germany and Austria. Wood pellets are made from wood shavings
and sawdust pressed into a cylindrical shape. They can be used for a wide
range of applications - in private households, in industrial and commercial
facilities and for the production of electricity and heat.
German Pellets GmbH
Press contact: Claudia Röhr
T: +49 (0) 3841-30306-412
F: +49 (0) 3841-30306-9400
E: claudia.roehr(at)german-pellets.de
I: www.german-pellets.de
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