El Dorado, AR 71730
United States
Latitude: 33.20763
Longitude: -92.66627
Pelletization Plant
NexGen Biomass, announced plans to build 150-employee plant capable of producing 440,000 tons of pellets a year on the site of a former Georgia Pacific saw mill in El Dorado. It is the second such investment in the state this year. Pellets will be shipped to Europe.
The American wood-pellet industry is growing in domestic use and as an exporting business, said Leslie Wheeler, the director of communications for the Pellet Fuels Institute in Washington, D.C. She estimated that there are between 80 and 100 pellet plants in North America.
The Pellet Fuels Institute, based in Washington, estimates that North American production reached about 6.2 million metric tons in 2009.