Пеллеты: купля - продажа

Wood pellets production in Sweden

Sweden is the biggest European producer of wood pellets accounting for1,458,000 tonnes in 2006. Total capacity of 35 pellet plants in Sweden isestimated for an over 1,600,000 tonnes/year (with 2 plants producing over130,000 tonnes and 15 producing over 30,000 tonnes a year). The pelletsdistribution network is well established, with truck transport common for shorterdistances, while sea shipping proving economical for longer distances.

The raw material used for Swedish pellets production includes sawdust,shavings, chippings and a wide range of other forestry by-products, dependingon the quality requirements for the different fields of application. Several of thenew plants and the plants under construction aim at using also round wood forraw material. Recently built pellet plants, especially the bigger ones, haveinstalled dryers to handle also wet fraction of sawdust. So far, it is only thepellet plant at the Mönsterås pulp and paper mill, which produces pellets frombark (obtained as by-product from the logs debarked before pulp production).The amount of bark is so high that the plant today has a capacity of 50,000tonnes a year.

According to information from industry, the amount of raw material (white woodin the form of sawdust, planning shavings, and chips) available for pelletizing isnot sufficient to satisfy the increasing installed production capacity. This meansthat new pelletizing projects will need other types of woody raw material.

The Swedish pellets market is the largest in the world. The numbers for 2006show the consumption of approximately 1,670,000 tonnes of pellets, anincrease by 4400,000 tonnes from 2004. Sweden pellets make up a largeproportion of the fuel market, with almost 60 per cent being used in the largepower stations, in district heating, combined heat and power plants as well asin private houses. In recent years, also industry boilers have been converted topellet combustion.