Grant Award View - GA4259

Pelletmate uses waste wood streams to produce wood pellets which are a renewable biofuel. Raw materials used in our process include off cuts from local truss factories and single use wood pallets that would otherwise be destined for landfill. We have a production bottleneck, as we can produce 5.1 tonnes per hour, and only bag 2 tonnes per hour. This grant would enable us to install a form fill and seal bagging machine that can perform this task much more quickly. Operation and programming of this machine is a very skilled task and training of several employees will be necessary. The project will employ 6 contractors and staff during the construction phase and 6 more full time staff on the in feed and productions sides.