The Russian pulp and paper mill Vyborgskaya Cellulose which is constructing the biggest pellet plant in Europe on the territory of Leningrad region announced new dates of pellet start production

In summer, company told that first pellets would be produced in September 2010. Vyborgskaya Cellulose postponed the production start till December 2010 at the moment.

Andritz equipment is delivered to the plant and it is under installation at the moment.
Company will produce 1 000 000 tones of pellet per year. About 2 300 000 cub m of cull logs will be used for pellet production.
Besides the pellet plant CV is construction the heat and power station on biomass with the capacity of 100 MWh.
Ekman (Sweden) is the main partner which is responsible for pellet sales.
You can learn more about the biggest European pellet project in a biofuel conference in Saint-Petersburg International Forestry Forum on 20th of October. We are happy to invite you to take part in a conference and learn more about this project and other projects.

About conference here: http://www.infobio.ru/en/events/83.html