Jun 13, 2017 | News, News/PR
Hardwood pulpwood prices should remain strong, pine pulpwood may be brighter in the coming decades, but pine saw timber will likely remain static for the foreseeable future, according to predictions for Arkansas’ $6.3 billion forest industry. Matt Pelkki, economist...
Aug 10, 2016 | News, News/PR
For decades, generating electricity has been all about boiling water. Typically, you can boil water by burning coal, oil or natural gas or even through a nuclear reaction using uranium. That steam turns a turbine which turns a generator creating our electricity. On a...
Dec 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
The world’s largest wood pellet fuel manufacturer Enviva Holdings, established $5 million, 10-year program that it says is designed to protect tens of thousands of acres of bottomland forests in northeast North Carolina and southeast Virginia. It will also help...
Oct 27, 2014 | News, News/PR
Europe’s increasing emphasis on renewable energy lies behind the announcements this summer that two companies plan to build wood pellet plants in Arkansas, one in Pine Bluff and one in Monticello. Demand for the pellets, which energy-producing companies in Europe use...
Aug 18, 2014 | News, News/PR
By the end of 2015, if all goes as expected, a forest the size of Fayetteville will be fed into two huge wood pellet plants to create energy for European industry. That much everyone agrees on. Whether it’s a good thing remains a subject of debate. Loggers,...
