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Clearwater using wood slash for biofuel at Idaho mill

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/13/2010 - 11:11

SPOKANE, WA, April 13, 2010 (The Spokesman-Review) -The grinder sucked in lodgepole pine branches. It chewed them up and spit out wood chips. About two dozen logging contractors watched Monday as the Bruks mobile grinder, a Swedish- made machine, consumed a two-story-high slash pile on Bunco Road near Silverwood Theme Park.

The chips will be trucked to a Lewiston pulp mill and burned for power generation.

Modern Machinery Co., a heavy equipment dealer in Spokane, arranged the demonstration.

The Spokesman-Review - Wood slash becomes biofuel for paper mill

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Metsä Tissue to invest in reserve boiler for Mänttä mill in Finland

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/13/2010 - 01:37

ESPOO, Finland, April 12, 2010 (Press Release) -Mäntän Energia, an energy company owned 45 per cent by Metsä Tissue, is investing EUR 3.1 million in a 50 megawatt reserve boiler this spring. The boiler will be transferred from M-real's Lielahti mill to replace Mäntän Energia's idle coal-burning reserve boiler.

This replacement will ensure safe and undisturbed supply of heat and electricity to Metsä Tissue's Mänttä mill, which consumes approximately 84 per cent of the heat and 100 per cent of the energy produced annually by Mäntän Energia.

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AV Group in New Brunswick braces for higher energy costs for pulp mills

Posted in: Bio-Insight 04/06/2010 - 10:22

SAINT JOHN, NB, April 6, 2010 (Telegraph Journal ) -The AV Group is about to watch its bottom line come under tremendous pressure as the operator of two pulp mills braces for power rates that could rise by 20 per cent over the next five years.

Kevin Jewett, vice-president of wood fibre, said the Atholville and Nackawic operations stand to lose about $2 million in annual savings that were guaranteed in a power agreement now scrapped by the New Brunswick and Quebec governments.

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