2.5ton/h wood pellet plant in Sweden

As the largestest country in Northern Europe, the Kingdom of Sweden has been devoted to the development of new energy in recent years. As we all know, Sweden has large forest coverage rate (about 54%). And to reduce the usage of petroleum oil and gas, Sweden pays more attention to making full use of biomass materials.

According to the statics of Swedish Energy Agency, the total amount of using biomass resource has surpassed that of petroleum oil and covered 31.6% of total energy consumption in Sweden in 2011. Sweden imports 30 million tons petroleum oil 40 years ago, and now the import number is 11 million.

Nowadays, Sweden government gives finical support to encourage using biomass energy source. Thus more and more wood pellet production plant use scrap wood and sawdust from sawmill and other wood processing plants. Below is the wood pellet making line GEMCO has established for its client in Sweden.