The Northern regions of the USA encounter the pellet deficit
According to the report issued by the Pellet Association of the State of Maine, a cold winter, a rise in demand for pellets and a fallacious assessment of the situation by consumers led to the problems in the working process of producers and suppliers.
In spite of the fact that the enterprises producing pellets work twenty-four hours a day, some stores cannot satisfy an increasing demand and are compelled to reduce the volume of sales per customer.” That is mainly a problem of the market and not of the productivity capacities. Four pellet plants work at their full capacity, but the volume of sales exceeds the pace of stock replenishing.", declares Bill Bell, the executive director of a non-profit-making organization, backing up the producers and the sellers of pellets. "In order to prevent the like situation in future, consumers have got to stockpile throughout the year. It concerns directly retail customers and retailers as well. A reconstruction of the present storage rooms is also required, which will permit to store ready-made pellets throughout the year."
Geneva Wood Fuels Company which produces the premium pellets from foliage trees species agrees with the above mentioned point of view. The volume of production of Company’s plant, situated in Strong City, exceeds 80000 tonnes per year.
It is suggested that retailers and consumers should make their orders in advance. People have to accustom themselves to think about pellets as about something that is being bought throughout the year.
The productivity indices of the plant have increased during the last four years. According to this data, in the end of March in the last year it has been produced and dispatched by 20 % more of pellets than during the entire heating season. Statistics reveals that during the last three years more 200000 boilers have been sold in the USA which means that demand for pellets will increase continuously.
