For years Carey Logging & Excavating’s three cut-to-length crews and two subcontractors piled slash at roadside. Another contractor followed behind them to grind the residue for wood fuel markets.
“We thought biomass markets were going to keep expanding, so we went to NewPage to get a contract as a direct biomass supplier,” states owner Jim Carey, a 25-year logging veteran. In 2006 he invested a million dollars in his own fuel grinding operation and bid farewell to the grinding contractor.