BIOMASS CANADIAN 10 14 18 Sludge to energy 20 Premium Pellet is one cog in a well-functioning wheel of value-added production at the Nechako Lumber operation in Vanderhoof, B.C. JULY/AUGUST 2018 Skeena BioEnergy is launching as a new company, in a brand-new pellet facility in B.C. The $20-million pellet plant is being built next to Skeena Sawmills. Construction started in June and is expect-ed to be completed by December 2018, with commissioning in January 2019 . Dotting the pellet map A Precision Energy Services (PES) sludge-to-energy system at At-lantic Packaging’s Whitby mill processes 100,000 tonnes per year of paper mill sludge that was previously being sent to local area landfills, eliminating the cost of sludge disposal and reducing the cost of fossil fuels by the offset generation of plant steam. 10 INTEGRATED OPERATION Find everything you need to know about the 2018 Wood Pellet Association of Canada AGM & Conference taking place this September in Vancouver. WPAC show guide 9 14 DEPARTMENTS 6 26 Industry news Equipment spotlight 18 “From log in the gate to finished goods out, we have a fully integrated site that has a sawmill and planer mill… To have that on site is pretty unique.” Read the full story on page 10 COLUMNS 4 8 34 Editorial WPAC – Meeting demand in Japan Final Thoughts Our Cover Premium Pellet ingests about 185,000 oven-dried tonnes of sawdust and shavings to produce about 165,000 tonnes a year. Read the full story on page 10. Canadian BIOMASS 3
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