Wood Pellet Manufacturer Invests $6M in Processing Plant

Provider of wood pellets made from sawmill residuals, Thunderbolt Biomass Inc., is planning to build a new, $6 million processing plant in Allendale, SC that will create 35 positions, a press release posted to AreaDevelopment.com Thursday said.

The 14,550-sq-ft facility will manufacture industrial renewable fuel using biomass from a source near the plan. Thunderbolt said the site will make a number of raw materials, including sawmill residuals, forestry residuals, thinnings, and in-woods chip operations.

A wood pellet mill with an annual capacity of 60,000 tn will also be built on the eight acre site, with raw material reception equipment, a dryer, storage silos, sieves, hammermills, and environmental equipment to be located adjacent to new building.

“Thunderbolt Biomass is very pleased to announce its plans for a new pellet mill in Allendale. We are very happy to be building this plant in an area of very abundant forestry resources, infrastructure, and with the active support of the SC Department of Commerce and the Southern Carolina Economic Alliance, whose personnel and expertise were critical in bringing this project to Allendale,” the company’s president, Knox Grant, said in a statement. “We intend to be good partners in developing our business here, to hire locally as much as we can, and look forward to many profitable years in this community.”

The release did not specify when the project is expected to be completed.

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