Grand Opening held Friday for Corinth (Maine) Wood Pellets (largest in US)

[jpak]

http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=147864&zoneid=500

CORINTH — Corinth Wood Pellets, the largest single pellet manufacturing plant in the United States, held its grand opening Friday.

After 16 months of planning and preparation, owner Ken Eldridge said he’s ready to start next week producing an estimated 140,000 tons of wood pellets per year that will be sold both domestically and overseas.

"We were going to start today, but we lost our 125-horsepower motor," he said Friday before the event.

The pellets, which are a renewable resource, are burned in stoves as a substitute for oil and other fuels.

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[Old and In the Way]

1. I think that's Del Blackwell's old lumber mill.

Great to hear that...sounds like a real viable business operation and Corinth could use the industry. Our new middle school that hopefully will be passed in a week or so will have a wood pellet boiler...I'm sure they'll be contracting this operation to supply the pellets.

[jpak]

2. good to hear about your middle school...

:thumbsup: