The company will add 285,000-sq-ft of space to its manufacturing plant in Claremont, NC.
The $40 million pellet production facility in Arkansas is expected to start operations next year.
Crews responded to the blast and fire at the Hazlehurst Wood Pellets in Georgia facility last Thursday.
A local news outlet said the blaze was contained to a paper machine inside the firm’s Palatka, FL plant.
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Firefighters responded to the Wisconsin plant on Saturday afternoon after a machine fire broke out.
The facility in the southwest US will have more than 100,000 tn of wood fiber capacity when it becomes operational.
Drax Group is erecting several facilities in Arkansas that will have a combined capacity of 120,000 mt/yr of pellets.
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