France, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Ukraine. Here are a few highlights: • The ENplus quality certification now exceeds 700 certified companies and 8 million tonnes of annual pro-duction. • Europe’s pellet production in 2015 was 14.1 million tonnes. To-tal consumption was 20.3 million tonnes. Interestingly, the pellet heat-ing sector, at 10.3 million tonnes, made up 51 per cent of consumption – outpacing the highly-publicized utility mega-projects like Drax Pow-er and Dong Energy. Assuming each European home consumes about 2.5 tonnes per year, the European pellet heating sector has an estimated 4 mil-lion customers. • The top six producing countries were Germany (2.0 mn t), Sweden (1.7 mn t), Latvia (1.6 mn t), Esto-nia (1.3 mn t), Austria (1.0 mn t) and France 1.0 mn t). • The top countries consuming pellets for heat were Italy (3.1 mn t), Germany (2.3 mn t), Denmark (1.8 mn t), Sweden (1.6 mn t), France (1.0 mn t) and Austria (0.9 mn t). • Stoves continue to outpace boil-ers. In Italy, stoves make up 95 per cent of consumption and boilers just five per cent. In second place is Ger-many, where stoves make up 60 per cent of consumption and boilers 40 per cent. • Small European countries are rapidly building pellet production ca-pacity, nearly all of which is ENplus certified. Production from new mar-ket participants as of 2016 included: Ukraine 360,000 t (plus 1 million tonnes of pellets made from straw, peat, and sunflower husks), Serbia (250,000 t), Croatia (232,000 t,) and Slovenia (110,000 t). Europe continues to be Canada’s most important market for wood pellets, ac-counting for more than 80 per cent of Canadian exports. Most are destined for the industrial power sector in the U.K., Belgium, and the Netherlands. Canada continues to have a small but steady presence in the Italian residential heating market. Our participation in the CEBC enabled us to reinforce the reputation of Canada as a reliable supplier of high-quality, sustain-ably produced wood pellets for the power sector. It also gave us an opportunity to pursue co-operation with Austrian boiler manu-facturers, which could help us grow pellet consumption in Canada. It is remarkable to see how two tiny countries like Estonia and Latvia have emerged as major produc-ers that together rival Canada. And other European countries are rapidly increasing their pellet production. To sell pellets in Europe, the most im-portant factors are: (1) evidence of sustain-ability, (2) quality, (3) financial strength and reliability and (4) competitive pricing. Canada must continue to build its rep-utation in all these areas in order to main-tain and grow market share. • WOOD PELLETING PLANTS AMANDUS KAHL USA Corp. Hembree Park Drive, Suite L Roswell, GA , USA [email protected] akahl.us AMANDUS KAHL GmbH & Co. KG SARJ Equipment Corp. Golfview Blvd Bradford, Ontario LZ A, CANADA [email protected] QUALITY WORLDWIDE CBM_Amandus Kahl_MarApr17_CSA.indd 1 Canadian BIOMASS 2017-03-08 9:01 AM 11
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