Wood Pellet Manufacturing Plant Under Way in New York State

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http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=46331

Schuyler, New York New England Wood Pellet LLC has begun construction of its Schuyler, New York, wood pellet manufacturing plant. At 100,000 tons per year of wood pellet production, the plant will be the largest wood pellet manufacturing facility in the U.S., and produce enough renewable energy annually to heat 40,000 homes.

The $12 million plant will be located in the Schuyler Business and Industrial Park on Route 5 just east of Utica, within sight of the New York Thruway. Schuyler Wood Pellet will have about 20 employees when production begins in May 2007, with an estimated 75 additional jobs created trucking and retailing. The plant is expected to infuse more than $10 million in expenditures annually to the local economy

The plant will produce premium grade wood pellet fuel from clean wood waste including sawdust, wood chips, shavings and grindings from wood product manufacturing plants throughout central New York State. These residues are dried and ground to a fine sawdust, and compressed into 1/4-inch diameter pellets -- a clean, energy-dense and convenient fuel that can be burned in pellet stoves, furnaces and boilers.