Canadian Biomass

ELIMINATING EMISSIONS

Andrew Snook — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:19:47 +0000

Mercer International investing in innovative tech to meet future targets

Mercer International is a major player in the global forest products sector. Between its operations in the U.S., Canada, and Germany, the company has a consolidated annual production capacity of 2.1 million tonnes of pulp, 960 million board feet of lumber, and 230,000 tonnes of biofuels.

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Final Thoughts

Sarah Stadnyk, Canadian Biogas Association — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:58:27 +0000

The untapped potential of biogas

Solving Ontario’s organic waste challenge

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Building bio-oil capacity in Prince George

Andrew Snook — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:55:39 +0000

Building bio-oil capacity

Arbios Biotech is turning waste wood into renewable fuels

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WPAC Conference Show Guide

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:53:09 +0000

Sept. 23-24, 2025

Halifax Marriott Harbourfront, Halifax

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Pellet Gear Buyer’s Guide 2025

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:48:07 +0000

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A win-win scenario

Andrew Snook — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:44:35 +0000

New Brunswick church finds financial relief with wood pellets

For as long as churches have existed, they have played key roles in their communities across Canada. Paroisse Notre-Dame-des-Prodiges, a multi-purpose facility and Catholic church located in Kedgwick, N.B., continues to play this important role to this day including acting as the church, secondhand clothing store, food bank, funeral home, and more. It also supplies heating through a district energy system for its presbytery and the Salle Fatima theatre.

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Product diversification requires protections

Andrew Snook — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:39:49 +0000

Sawmills increasingly investing in spark and dust mitigation

When many sawmills and planer mills operated in the past, finding homes for their residuals outside of the mills was common practice. This may have meant sending green wood chips to a nearby pulp mill and sawdust to a medium-density fibreboard (MDF) manufacturer, or simply burning the residuals in beehive burners. But as sawmills and other wood products manufacturers across Canada identified the additional value in using 100 per cent of the log – both monetary and societal – they’ve also acknowledged the additional precautions needed to ensure operations remain safe.

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WPAC – Asia’s energy transition

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:35:01 +0000

Asia’s energy transition

Canadian wood pellets at the forefront

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SUSTANE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES OFFTAKE AGREEMENT WITH BASF

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:30:30 +0000

Sustane Technologies and Germany-headquartered BASF have signed a long-term offtake agreement that will see BASF purchase premium plastic feedstock from Sustane’s Chester, N.S. facility, including output from both its existing production line and an upcoming facility expansion comprising a new line, tripling capacity.

The agreement builds on a collaboration between the two companies that has enabled Sustane to deliver high-quality feedstock from end-of-life plastics to BASF operations in Europe and the United States. Given that Sustane processes the hardest to recycle plastics, this is a major step forward in advancing a true circular economy for plastics.

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CANADA’S FIRST INDUSTRIAL-SCALE BIOCHAR PLANT INAGURAUATED

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:29:29 +0000

Airex Energy, Groupe Rémabec, and SUEZ, recently inaugurated Carbonity, the first industrial-scale biochar plant in Canada. Based in Port-Cartier, Que., Carbonity was created out of a partnership between the three companies. The plant begins with an annual production capacity of 10,000 tonnes of biochar, which is expected to triple by 2026, making it the largest facility of its kind in North America.

The company is expected to create 75 direct and indirect jobs in the region and produce carbon-rich biochar from approximately 58,000 tonnes of forestry residues annually, sourced by Groupe Rémabec.

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Industry news

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:26:43 +0000

NOVA SCOTIA MAKING WOOD PRODUCTS A PRIORITY

The province of Nova Scotia recently stated that it has directed all departments to search for opportunities to use mass timber, wood pellets, biomass, biofuels and other wood products made from residuals related to sustainable harvesting and sawmilling.

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Editorial

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:24:57 +0000

Getting political

Domtar calls on government to support a biomass investment tax credit

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