Enviva Updates Pellet Plant Developments

Enviva, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, reports that its plant in Hamlet, NC continues to ramp up production, and Enviva expects it to reach its full production capacity of 600,000 metric tons per year  by the end of 2020.

Enviva’s previously announced projects to increase the production capacity of its wood pellet production plants in Northampton, NC and Southampton, Va. by 400,000 MTPY are progressing and the project has received the necessary permits. Enviva expects to commence the expanded production ramp for the Northampton plant and the Southampton plant in the second and third quarters of 2020, respectively.

The company also reports it is investing incremental capital and awaiting permits to increase production capacity of the wood pellet production plant in Greenwood, SC to 600,000 MTPY.

Enviva has ordered equipment and initial foundations are being completed at the newly announced wood pellet plant under construction at Lucedale, Miss. The first of two large concrete wood pellet storage domes is being constructed at the Pascagoula terminal.

The company expects to make a final investment decision in the first of this year as to the development of a wood pellet production plant in Epes, Ala. And Enviva continues to evaluate additional sites for wood pellet production plants in Alabama and Mississippi, the production of which would be exported through the Pascagoula terminal.