Green Tech Company Soars Lignetics: wood pellets

Lignetics Incorporated is a privately owned company, specializing in environmentally engineered fire and fuel. Lignetics is one of the pioneers of the pellet fuel industry.

The company was founded in 1983 by Dr. William Pickering, retired director of NASA�s Jet Propulsion laboratory. And a group of investors that had the vision to see that our country was in need of a clean new alternative to carbon based fuels.

They purchased a small pellet plant in Sandpoint Idaho. And over the years, that facility, under the direction of then general manager, Ken Tucker, developed into the premiere pellet manufacturer in North America.

Today, Ken Tucker, now Lignetics president and CEO, continues to implement the ideals of his founders. He leads this company into the future. And oversees Lignetics dedication to quality, customer service, and expanding capacity.

Lignetics is dedicated to manufacturing the highest quality, best value wood fuel pellets available. Their patented process produces very high quality fuels for stoves and furnaces, with minimum emissions and very low ash residue.

Thank you for your time and interest in Lignetics Incorporated. For more information please visit; www.Lignetics.com

Lignetics Incorporated is a privately owned company, specializing in environmentally engineered fire and fuel. Lignetics starts with waste sawdust from saw mills, lumber yards, wood product manufacturing centers, and manufactures the highest quality wood fuel pellets, Pres-to-logs brand fire logs, and fire starter products.

Lignetics environmentally engineered products saves money on heating products while lessening the impact on the environment. These products also reduce America�¢����s dependence on fuel oil and come from renewable resources. Residential homes, as well as many commercial applications benefit from this type of heating.

Lignetics is one of the pioneers of the pellet fuel industry. The company was founded in 1983 by Dr. William Pickering, retired director of NASA�¢����s Jet Propulsion laboratory. And a group of investors that had the vision to see that our country was in need of a clean new alternative to carbon based fuels. They purchased a small pellet plant in Sandpoint Idaho. And over the years, that facility, under the direction of then general manager, Ken Tucker, developed into the premiere pellet manufacturer in North America.

Today, Ken Tucker, now Lignetics president and CEO, continues to implement the ideals of his founders. He leads this company into the future. And oversees Lignetics dedication to quality, customer service, and expanding capacity. Lignetics is dedicated to manufacturing the highest quality, best value wood fuel pellets available. Their patented process produces very high quality fuels for stoves and furnaces, with minimum emissions and very low ash residue. Lignetics is the only wood fuel manufacturer with locations both east and west, and produces about two hundred thousand tons of product each year.

At the West Virginia location, saw dust, the raw material used in the pellets, is collected and trucked from local area saw mills. This plant receives about 600 truck loads each month, of a variety of different hard and soft woods. Each 18 ton load is weighed and unloaded by a hydraulic lift into piles that are put away under covered storage. Some trailers arrive with walking floors and automatically unload their cargo without the aid of the tilting lift platform. Each delivery load is sampled, tagged and tested for moisture content.

Raw materials are combined into a precise recipe of hard and soft woods. This blended mixture is then loaded into a conveyor where the process begins. The first step is to screen the raw material for size, rock, bark and other foreign material. The sized material is then fed into a tumble dryer, which is fired by sawdust and other waste products from the process itself. The self fired oven provides an efficient and economical source of heat to maintain the drying process. The high temperature and tumbling action dries the material to ten to eleven percent moisture content.

The entire process is environmentally friendly, as the majority of output from the factory�¢����s stack is nothing more than steam. Scrubbers are employed to prevent ash, dust and other particles from entering the atmosphere.

The dried material is fed to grinders, which size the material to the optimum density for extruding into wood burning pellets.

The West Virginia operation employs three roller-mills which pelletizes the material into a near finished product. The pellets are then fed to a cooler which sets their shape and hardens them into a finished product. The pellets are then screened to remove any residual dust or broken pellets called fines. These fines are used to fire the drying furnace as part of the process.

The finished pellets are stored and fed to an automated bagger and a palletizer. The shrink wrapped pellets arrive in the warehouse ready to be stored and shipped to the many waiting customers.

Lignetics is very interested in operating a plant in your area. And is very excited about the opportunities to make use of the saw dust waste from the many local area saw mills, as well as providing jobs to the local community. We would welcome discussions with you concerning committing your waste products to our operation, as well as answering any questions you might have about our process.

We would like to invite you to visit our West Virginia operation and see first hand our commitment to creating a quality product, as well as our respect for the environment.

Thank you for your time and interest in Lignetics Incorporated. For more information visit; Lignetics.com

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