BioMASS update OntariO wOOd allOcatiOn annOuncements begin Announcements began for On-tario’s Wood Supply Competitive Process in early February. Of the 30 offers issued, 12 companies have accepted wood supply of-fers to date, for a total of 945,100 m 3 /year of wood. The wood allocations will be used for both energy and wood products, in-cluding wood pellets, briquettes, firewood, and hog fuel for heat and power production; dimen-sional and industrial lumber; pallets; and drill core boxes and timbers for the mining industry. Atikokan-based Atikokan Renewable Fuels was awarded 179,400 m 3 /year of poplar and birch fibre, in addition to an existing offer of 100,000 m 3 /year. It plans to produce wood pellets for domestic and international markets. With $1 million in support from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corpora-tion’s (NOHFC’s) Enterprises North Job Creation Program, the company is converting a former oriented strand board mill into a wood pellet plant. An additional $250,000 in support is helping to convert the plant’s existing nat-ural gas heating system to wood-based heat through the Northern Energy Program. Atikokan Renewable Fuels is planning to produce 140,000 tonnes/year of pellets, with start-up anticipated at the end of the second quarter of 2011. Rainy Lake Tribal Contracting will be the primary fibre handling and processing contractor at the Atikokan facil-ity, according to Ed Fukushima of Atikokan Renewable Fuels. A second wood pellet plant will be constructed by Brace-bridge-based Muskoka Timber Mills, which was awarded 101,200 m 3 /year of hardwoods and conifers. The allocation will provide an additional supply of sawlogs to the company’s sawmill, which produces siding, flooring, lumber, millwork and other materials, according to a report in Cottage Country Now. The company plans to build a $15-million pellet plant adjacent to its sawmill to produce 50,000 tonnes/year of pellets. The wood will come from forests managed by Westwind Forest Stewardship, which are Forest Stewardship Council-certified, says the report. Construction is expected to begin in summer 2011. Millson Forestry Service of Timmins, Ontario, was awarded 57,000 m 3 /year of unmer-chantable spruce, pine, and fir, which it will use to make wood briquettes for domestic and international markets. The company is developing a mobile briquette plant with support from NOHFC. The plant will move to harvest areas to access wood biomass left by forestry op-erations. Millson Forestry Service is a forestry management and contracting company that has been operating in northeastern Ontario since 1980. Ontario received 115 submis-sions under the provincial wood supply competition from exist-ing and new forest companies. presents S PC Sweden Power Chippers AB Turn waste into profit! From dry shavings, sawdust or similar material – Silvana specializes in providing turn-key, small-scale pellet press solutions from SPC Sweden to fit your specific needs. Talk to us and start making more profit now! 4269 Sainte-Catherine Street West, #304 Montreal, QC H3Z 1P7 Tel: 514 939-3523 Fax: 514 939-3863 www.silvanatrading.com www.pelletpress.com Silvana Import Trading Inc. 6 Canadian BIOMASS MarCh/april 2011
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