Plan needed for competing wood demands - Fonterra

Plan needed for competing wood demands - Fonterra
Gavin Evans
By Gavin Evans May 30 (BusinessDesk) - Wood is a viable industrial fuel but greater effort may be needed to ensure that new demand from processors doesn’t strip supplies from existing users, Fonterra says. Co-firing the firm’s Brightwater milk powder plant near Nelson on a wood-coal blend shows that wood is a viable means to reduce emissions from process heat, Tony Oosten, the firm’s energy manager, says. Capital and fuel costs for new wood or coal boilers are now very close and the company could – were it to be building its Darfield 2...

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