Westervelt Renewable Energy recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new pellet plant to be built near Aliceville, Ala. at a former industrial plant site. The plant will produce 280,000 metric tons of pellets annually, which will be shipped down the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to the Port of Mobile and shipped to Europe.
Westervelt’s partners in the venture are Dieffenbacher, Inc., which will design the plant and provide all major process equipment, and E.ON, a major German utility company. Pellet production is scheduled to begin in November 2012.