Wood Pellet Plants Keep Coming To Southern United States

Six new wood pellet plants have been announced recently for the Southern U.S. that could add an estimated two million tons annually of pellets for shipment to Europe.

Four of the facilities will be brand new plants and two are conversions from previous production of related products.

Production from all six is expected to be exported to countries in the European Union to reduce emissions from coal-fired electrical generating plants.

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