Until now, timber waste has been sent to land fill or burnt thus contributing to environmental damage. Firewood contains around 50% moisture, which leads to excess steam being produced, thus creating less heat output. Wood pellets contain <10% moisture which produces greater heat output than firewood.
Wood pellets are manufactured using 100% virgin wood using only timber from renewable managed forests. Wood pellets are easy to store, easy to handle, and they burn efficiently giving a high calorific value due low moisture content.
One ton of wood pellets can replace 400 litres of oil, saving around 1,070kg of CO² from being released into the earth’s atmosphere.
Due to their low moisture content, wood pellets have a high-energy content, similar to that of high quality coal. Only minor energy losses are experienced due to the need to burn off the moisture content.
As wood pellets are manufactured to a consistent size (5 to 20mm long x 6mm diameter), have low moisture content and high density means that wood pellets can be used in automatic clean-burn heating appliances. Which also means that a boiler response time is fast and the technology is controllable without increasing the unwanted load on the environment. Using fuels such as wood pellets for commercial and domestic properties ensures a clean, effective heat as well as a clear conscience for its users. Our raw materials are produced from managed, renewable sources to ensure sustainability of supply for future generations. On burning wood fuels, the carbon dioxide absorbed during the growth of the tree will be released back to nature where it is absorbed by other plants. As such, wood fuels are considered ‘carbon neutral’.
Premium grade wood pellet specification:
Diameter: 6mm Length: 5 to 20mm Moisture content: <10% Ash content: <0.7% Net calorific value: 17.8MJ/kg Density: 650kg/m3 A biomass fuel made entirely from virgin wood, our wood pellets offer a number of benefits:
a renewable fuel source that is 100% natural, with no waste product and no additives;
a sustainable source of energy;
often cheaper than other fuels;
eliminates work;
eliminates mess – with marginal moisture content, their efficient burning leaves <0.7% of biodegradable ash residue;
lower air pollution;
easy to store (requiring only a dry environment) and easy to transport and handle;
uniform in size.
Available in a choice of 15kg bags, 1 ton pallet loads and 1 ton bulk bags or blown:
Briquettes
Briquettes are a high caloric solid fuel that replaces firewood and oil fuel, and which uses lignocelluloses biomass of forest origin as its raw material. Briquettes are an environmentally friendly alternative to coal, logs, coke or charcoal. Each 10kg tightly sealed pack of briquettes comprises 6 briquettes, which are easy to handle and stack, requiring very little storage space. A pallet of briquettes comprises 96 packs.
In the productive process, densification of residues from forest materials and by-products is made by the briquette process, which consists of high-pressure mechanical sawdust compaction. Such a compaction raises the temperature, producing lignin, a substance that acts as bonding element, which holds the wood fibres together, without requiring the use of a chemical bonding agent.
There are no additives of any kind included within the manufacturing process and the easily combustible briquettes are suitable for burning in multi-fuel stoves, log burners and open fireplaces.
Briquette specification:
Product: Virgin timber briquette with no additives Ash content: <1% Moisture content: 7-8% Calorific value: 4900 kWh/ton
The Benefits:
90 tons of briquette prevent the cutting of 85 adult trees;
they can be used in wood burning stove, open fireplaces, bakery and pizza house ovens, ceramic ovens, etc;
they are supplied in standard uniform sizes and can be easily stored in a garage or shed;
low environmental impact, reduces deforestation;
a high density material, it requires minimum storage space;
one ton of briquette is equivalent to 5 m³ of firewood (or 0.5 ton BPF oil) in terms of caloric content;
a hygienic product, without the firewood inconveniences (bark and chip production);
reduced pollution, smoke and ash content;
does not harm the furnace during the filing process;
end of low calorific residue burning;
free of chemical bonding agents;
100% recycled and ecological product.
Application guideline:
Use some kindling to get the fire going. Close the airflow, use two initially and then just add one as and when required. Do not overload.
Blown
We can deliver premium grade 6mm pellets in quantities up to 14 metric tons (minimum order 4 tons).
Pellets are delivered in a tanker and blown directly into your hopper or silo.
Deliveries possible up to ca. 100 miles from the RG postcode region, however please call for details and price information if outside this area.