Financial terms were not disclosed.
Enviva plans to triple production capacity at the site to meet growing demand from customers in the US and Europe. This will result in creation of 22 jobs at the plant and 30 more through its logging and forestry supply chain.
Enviva, based in Richmond, Virginia, has emerged in recent months as one of the biomass industry’s more aggressive players with acquisitions and several large fuel pellet export contracts to Europe.
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