Development of an efficient wood pellet supply chain from Eastern
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Development of an efficient wood pellet supply chain from Eastern
Development of an efficient wood pellet supply chain from Eastern Canada to Europe Gordon Murray, Executive Director Wood Pellet Association of Canada 2 Annual capacity – 1 million tonnes Surplus capacity – 630 thousand tonnes Wood Pellet Association of Canada 3 Small domestic market Crowded out of US Producers do not cooperate – poor economies of scale for storage and shipping Need dedicated port facilities – should handle 500,000 tonnes to minimize cost Wood Pellet Association of Canada 4 Wood Pellet Association of Canada 5 Company Operational Plants 1 Crabbe Lumber 2 Groupe Savoie 3 Marwood Ltd. 4 Shaw Resources 5 TP Downey 6 Cottles Island Lumber Co. Ltd. 7 Holson Forest Products 8 Shaw Resources 9 Viridis Energy 10 Canadian Biofuel 11 Boreal Pellet 12 Energex 13 Granulco 14 Granules de la Mauricie 15 Granules LG 16 Lauzon Recycled Wood Energy 17 Lauzon Recycled Wood Energy 18 Trebio 19 Granules LG Under Construction 20 Atikokan Renwable Fuels 21 KD Quality Pellets Location Province Capacity (x1,000 tonnes) Carleton Saint-Quentin Tracyville Bathurst Hillsborough Summerford Roddickton Shubenacadie Middle Musquodoboit Springford Amos Lac-Megantic Sacre-Coeur Shawinigan Saint-Felicien Papineauville Saint-Paulin Portage-du-Fort Mashteuiatsh NB NB NB NB NB NL NL NS NS ON QC QC QC QC QC QC QC QC QC 40 55 10 75 40 12 55 50 110 30 50 120 20 22 85 30 40 130 85 1059 Atikokan New Liskeard ON ON 120 75 195 Wood Pellet Association of Canada Sea Ports 1 Thunder Bay 2 Montreal 3 Trois Rivieres 4 Quebec 5 Belledune 6 Halifax 7 Roddickton 6 11 million m3 unused annual cut available Province working on tenure reform Wood supply competition mid 2011 Substantial volumes awarded to proposed pellet operations Wood Pellet Association of Canada 7 Annual Timber Award – m3 Company KD Quality Pellets 90,000 Wagner Forest Management 133,500 White Sand First Nation 149,000 Wawasum Corporation 113,000 Woodville Pellet 56,500 Muskoka Timber Mills 101,200 Atikokan Renewable Fuels 179,000 Abitibi Bowater 219.000 Total 1,041,200 Sources: Working Forest and Ontario MNDMF Wood Pellet Association of Canada 8 Shipped 120,000 tonnes in 2011 (2 producers) Total annual bulk cargo ~ 2 mn tonnes Pellet terminal has 10 m draft Handles up to Handymax – 50,000 DWT Wood Pellet Association of Canada 9 Halifax NS – currently handles 6 mn tonnes of bulk cargo. Quebec QC – handles 26.5 mn tonnes Trois Rivieres QC – 1.5 mn tonnes Montreal – 5 mn tonnes Roddickton NL - new Wood Pellet Association of Canada 10 Thunder Bay – on Lake Superior St Lawrence Seaway is frozen from Jan 1 to Mar 31 Max ship size – “seawaymax” 28,500 DWT Must pass through 6 canals and 19 locks, filled and emptied by gravity 3000 km to Atlantic Ocean Wood Pellet Association of Canada 11 Wood Pellet Association of Canada 12 Rail transport to terminal using own cars Few terminals handling large volumes Multiple producers co-mingling product at terminal Frequent 50,000 tonne shipments – reduce costs Wood Pellet Association of Canada 13 QWEB & WPAC cooperating on a study Confirm feedstock availability Compare port facilities Develop cost model First to solve the logistics challenge will control supply • Control rail cars • Central terminal • Port storage and loading Wood Pellet Association of Canada 14 Europe needs pellets Canada is a proven supply source Quality Reliability Sustainability Eastern Canada presents a great opportunity First mover will have the advantage Wood Pellet Association of Canada 15 [email protected] www.pellet.org Wood Pellet Association of Canada 16
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