Proposed Plant to Export Wood Pellets to Asia

- Sep­tem­ber 25, 2014, Bio­mass Magazine

A pro­posed pel­let plant under devel­op­ment near Mis­sion, British Colum­bia, aims to pro­duce wood pel­lets for export into indus­tri­al mar­kets in South Korea and oth­er Asian mar­kets. The project is being devel­oped by SMG Wood Pel­let Inc., a sub­sidiary of Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia-based SMG Asset. The facil­i­ty will be brand­ed under the name Mis­sion Wood Pellet.

Paul Adams, oper­a­tions man­ag­er for SMG Wood Pel­let, said engi­neer­ing work on the facil­i­ty is near­ing com­ple­tion, while fiber sup­ply agree­ments and off­take agree­ments are in place. The com­pa­ny is in the process of secur­ing nec­es­sary permits.

SMG plans to break ground on the project ear­ly next year with oper­a­tions begin­ning in the sec­ond or third quar­ter. Once com­plete, the facil­i­ty will have an installed capac­i­ty of 160,000 tons per year. Ini­tial pro­duc­tion will be in the range of 100,000 tons per year. “This is going to be a first-of-its-kind facil­i­ty in North Amer­i­ca,” Adams said, not­ing it will fea­ture state-of-the-art tech­nolo­gies and best prac­tices with regard to fiber han­dling and processing.