2020 Vision W ith the start of a new year and a new decade – especially one that brings with it a number of puns about ‘2020 vision’ – it’s only natural that everyone is looking ahead and predict-ing how things will unfold in the coming years. In our industry, the new decade will likely see rapid expansion and new devel-opments as Canada’s bio-economy picks up speed. In fact, a new milestone was reached less than one month into the new de-cade. On Jan. 16, Pinnacle GRINDING Renewable Energy signed BC a 15-year charter agree-ment with NYK Bulk and Projects Carriers for a new Japanese-built ship that will transport up to 33,000 tonnes of pellets exclusively between Canada and Japan six times per year. This is a first for a Canadian pellet producer, and is “certainly different to how freight has been arranged in the past by any wood pellet company anywhere,” said Vaughan Bassett, Pinnacle’s senior vice-president of sales and logistics, on page 6. In his global market outlook for 2020, William Strauss, president of FutureMet-rics, notes that the future of pellet prices will be heavily influenced by long-term contracts such as the one established be-tween Pinnacle and the Japanese govern-ment. By the end of the decade, Future-Metrics expects the price for pellets to be between approximately $215 to $235 per tonne. Read more on page 24. This is an encouraging sign as the in-dustry looks ahead. But access to fibre in B.C. remains difficult, as the province’s for-estry sector has experienced a downturn in the past year, resulting in the permanent closure of at least nine sawmills, as well as Biomass, Bioenergy and Bioproducts BIOMASS CANADIAN Volume 20 No. 1 Editor -Maria Church (226) 931-1396 [email protected] Associate Editor -Ellen Cools (416) 510-6766 [email protected] Contributors -Adam Kveton, Gordon Murray, Harry “Dutch” Dresser, William Strauss, Jordan Solomon, Taylor Whitfield Group Publisher -Todd Humber 416-510-5248 [email protected] Account Coordinator -Stephanie DeFields Ph: (519) 429-5196 [email protected] National Sales Manager -Rebecca Lewis Ph: (519) 429-5196 [email protected] Quebec Sales -Josée Crevier Ph: (514) 425-0025 Fax: (514) 425-0068 [email protected] Western Sales Manager -Tim Shaddick [email protected] Ph: (604) 264-1158 Fax: (604) 264-1367 Media Designer -Alison Keba Circulation Manager – Jay Doshi [email protected] Ph: (416) 442-5600 ext. 5124 COO Scott Jamieson Canadian Biomass is published four times a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. 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Meanwhile, Canada’s East coast pellet producers are enjoying steadily grow-ALSO ing business. Canadian Bio-mass editor Maria Church got an inside look at some of New Brunswick’s pellet plants, includ-ing the newly commissioned Grand River Pellets. Read more on page 20. As we move into a new decade, diver-sifying operations and producing bioprod-ucts from wood residues will be critical. On page 14, FPInnovations’ Jean Hamel explains how the organization’s ther-mo-mechanical-pulp (TMP)-bio technol-ogy at Resolute’s Thunder Bay, Ont., pulp and paper mill, could open up new mar-kets for the forest products sector. With all the new projects and develop-ments already underway, I’m excited to see where the industry goes this year, and be-yond into the 2020s. • Ellen Cools, Associate Editor Winter 2020 canadianbiomassmagazine.ca Williams Lake logger starts up salvage wood biomass operation 2020 pellet markets outlook PEI’s boiler story CB_Winter20_Cover.indd 1 2020-02-05 1:28 PM www.canadianbiomassmagazine.ca 4 Canadian BIOMASS WINTER 2020
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