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Wood Pellets Market Analysis in Canada
Wood pellet have emerged as a kind of successful renewable and sustainable fuel source.
Featured by high density and calorific value, low moisture, and relative convenience of
transportation and storage, pellets are growing in popularity also due to rising fossil fuel cost
and concern over carbon emission.
Canadian Wood Pellets Raw Materials
The forest resources of Canada are the third largest in the world. In Canada, abundant forest
resources and a mass of wood go to waste each year. Wood pellets are made from wasted
materials, which include sawmill residues-sawdust, shavings and bark-and “standing dead wood
” , which is a kind of diseased and insect-killed tree. In addition, some unwanted resources that
sawmills have abandoned on the forest floor after logging. They can be pelletized as raw
materials.
Canadian Wood Pellet Current Status
Most Canadian homes are heated by natural gas, with limited domestic demand, the Canadian
wood pellets market is driven almost entirely by foreign demand, especially the voracious
demand from Europe. At the same time, the wood pellets manufacturing industries are bringing
enormous value to the domestic forest sector.
By the beginning of 2013, Canada had 42 pellet plants with over 3 million tonnes of annual
production capacity. Pellet plants in the province of British Columbia, located in the western
region of Canada, account for about 65 percent of Canadian pellet capacity and production.
Collectively, the provinces of Alberta, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia account for 35
percent. It is estimated that 90 percent of Canadian pellets were exported to Europe.
Canada Wood Pellets Export Situation
As for 2013, North America exported wood pellets valued at over US$650 million. Of which,
the expansion of Canadian pellet export was less significantly than that of the U.S., but 2013
Canadian pellets export volumes were still over 50 percent higher than in 2011.
In Canada, there have been two developments of wood pellets export. One is the first regular
shipment of wood pellets to South Korea started in the second half of 2013, the other one is the
increase of pellets export from Eastern Canada (Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)
during the same time.
Eastern Canada will have additional wood pellets export volumes later in 2014 when the two
pellet facilities in Ontario start to operate.
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