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Drax Biomass Moving Corporate Headquarters To Louisiana

Drax Biomass, which operates two Louisiana wood pellet manufacturing facilities as well as a shipping operation in the Port of Baton Rouge, will move its corporate headquarters from Atlanta to Monroe. Company President Pete Madden said the move allows Drax “to...

International Forestry Group Tours Drax Biomass In Louisiana

Drax Biomass played host to a diverse group of international scientists and forestry experts at Morehouse BioEnergy on Monday, following an international conference in Little Rock. Jim Guldin, a supervisory research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service and program...

Wood Pellet Operations Underway At Louisiana Port

For more than a year, many westbound drivers crossing the Mississippi River on the Interstate 10 bridge connecting Baton Rouge and Port Allen may have wondered why two giant, white domes were under construction on the west bank. Last month, large trucks began filling...

Incentives Approved For Two Louisiana Wood Energy Projects

Two biofuel companies were approved Friday in Baton Rouge for state manufacturing incentives totaling a combined $750,000 for wood energy projects to be built at the Port of Alexandria and at Bastrop in northeastern Louisiana’s Morehouse Parish. An economic...