Your global equipment supplier for the biomass industry Northwest Territories ADM Mike Burns discusses the emergence of biomass projects throughout the north. ANDRITZ is one of the world’s leading suppliers of techno logies, systems, and services re lating to equipment for the bio mass pelleting industry. We offer single machines for the production of solid and liquid biofuel and waste pellets. We have the abili ty to manu-facture and supply each and every key processing machine in the pel-let production line. current residential pellet usage, while the U.K. (46 per cent), Sweden (13 per cent) and Denmark (12 per cent) lead in the con-sumption of industrial wood pellets. McDermott also forecasted that the Dutch market would rise to 3.25 million tonnes by 2020, and that Sweden’s carbon tax increases in January 2016 and January 2018 could increase the use of biomass process heat and district heating. However, the heating oil market will end up being the main determining factor for growth in the heating pellet market. Gilles Gauthier of the European Pellet Council discussed Europe’s role in the global pellet market. About 65 per cent of wood pellets con-sumed in Europe are used to produce heat, about 18.8MT; compared to 7.8MT used for industrial use. Leaders in pellet consump-tion in Europe are Italy, Germany, Sweden, France and Austria. Gauthier said that all five European lead-ers’ pellet use varies. For example, Italy is heavily reliant on importing wood pellets while Germany and Austria create enough to meet their needs. DUST SAFETY Safety Council’s Rob Moonen; Pinnacle’s Scott Bax discussing how to create a safer pellet sector; and EPM Consulting’s John Bachynski discussing how to manage com-bustible dust. Over the last 28 years there have been about 3,500 reported combustible dust explosions in North America, Bachynski told the crowd. He added that 38 per cent of the explosions by industry happen in the wood products industry with 42 per cent of the explosions by material coming from wood. “That’s about one every three days,” said Bachynski. Other highlights from WPAC 2015 included tours of the Port of Halifax, Shaw Resources pellet plant, Scotia Atlantic Biomass pellet plant and a wood pellet quality certification workshop. WPAC 2016 will take place from September 20 to 22, 2016. For more information on the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, visit www.pellet.org • ANDRITZ Feed & Biofuel A/S Europe, Asia, and South America: [email protected] USA and Canada: [email protected] www.andritz.com A series of safety-related sessions also took place, including dust explosion protection strategies from Fike’s Jeff Mycroft; a discus-sion on Lakeland and Burns Lake Inquest verdicts and implications from B.C. Forest To learn more about the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, or to hear from more woodpellet experts, visit canadianbiomassmagazine.ca. 28 Canadian BIOMASS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015
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