geneva wood pellets

Geneva wood pellets are the most well-known brand in Maine and upper New England, America. In 2015, Geneva Wood Fuel was acquired by Lignetics Inc., which is the largest residential wood pellets manufacturing company in the USA. Lignetics is the leading manufacturer of premium wood pellets and Pres-to-Logs® fire logs used as a renewable fuel for home heating in the United States, in addition to manufacturing animal bedding, absorption products and barbeque wood pellets. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Sandpoint, ID, Lignetics manufactures and distributes branded wood pellets. The annual production capacity of wood pellets by Lignetics is 550,000 tons. Lignetics is the only wood pellet manufacturer that has wood production plants on both the East Coast and the West Coast in six plant locations in the states of Maine, Oregon, Idaho, West Virginia and Virginia.

 

Geneva wood pellets are the first choice as 100% hardwood pellet fuel for both residential and commercial uses. Premium grade wood pellet fuel produced at Geneva Wood Fuels of Strong, ME. Geneva only accepts the finest hardwoods available and processes every ounce of wood onsite at their facility, so as to guarantee their customers wood pellets with high quality and low ash content. The only goal of Geneva is to provide customers with superior wood pellets and excellent services.

Geneva wood pellets was rated “Top 5 pellets to burn” in Massachusetts & Rhode Island by Allaboutwoodpellets.com! Geneva wood pellets exceed all standards for super premium quality by the Pellet Fuels Institute, and it controls there raw materials all the time, only sing the top quality hardwood logs. All the Geneva wood pellets are produced at their wood pellet plant in Strong, Maine, USA.

Features of Geneva Wood Pellets

• Super Premium Grade
• Ash Content Less than 0.05%
• Moisture Less than 4%-6%
• Heat Value over 8400 BTU per pound
• Fines Less than 0.5%

Hardwood Pellets and Softwood Pellets

Wood pellets can be divided into hardwood pellets and softwood pellets, based on the wooden materials. Hardwood pellets are preferred in wood stoves and fireplaces because it naturally has lower moisture content and higher density, and also burns longer. Softwood pellet is known for burning hotter initially, easy to light, having more pitch or sap, more sparks and sound as it burns, but burns up more quickly. So, which one to choose? Hardwood pellets or softwood pellets? Here is the answer.

How to make wood pellets?

Take Geneva wood pellets for example, the wood pellets manufacturing process is mainly as the following:

Preparation of raw materials for making pellets: Here you need wood debarker, wood chipper or hammer mill, and rotary dryer.

1. Wood debarker is used to remove the bark of wood logs. Wood chipper is used to pulverize wood logs, branches and planks into small wood chips. Hammer mill has 2 kinds: small hammer mill and large hammer mill. And just like wood chipper, it is also used to pulverize wood log and branches, etc. Notice: To ensure that there is no impurity in the powders of raw material, sometimes the screen or sifter is also used here.
2. The rotary dryer is used to dry the power of raw materials to make sure that they contain proper moisture content.
3. After debarking, pulverizing and drying, here comes the most important machine, wood pellet mill, which is used to compress the powders of raw materials into pellets. The wood pellets making machine for industrial use is usually called large wood pellet machine or ring die wood pellet mill, which is indispensable in the wood pellets manufacturing plant. Here I have to mention GEMCO industrial wood pellet mill, which is a good and cost-effective choice for large scale wood pellets production.
4. After pelletizing with wood pellet mills, the wood pellets are produced. To guarantee their quality in later usage, the pellets need cooling down to the room temperature. Besides, the fines or debris of wood pellets need to be collected for the second processing for making into pellets. Therefore, pellet sifter and pellets cooler is needed here.
5. After all of the processes above, here comes the final step with pellets packing machine. GEMCO pellets packing machine is able to pack wood pellets perfectly and weigh the pellets automatically. It can be a big help for you if you want to sale wood pellets in bags instead of bulk. Last but not least, here is the product list of GEMCO biomass machinery that you are probably interested in.