Talk about pellet pigs...

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crausch

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Aug 26, 2008
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I guess the mills here in the states must be catching up if we can afford to send them overseas. I would hate to sell away what we need here.

The Alabama State Port Authority on Tuesday set in motion plans to fill two vacant warehouses with wood pellets and make $4.5 million in improvements to a loader at McDuffie Coal Terminal.

Among lease agreements approved by the authority was a 10-year, $480,000 annual deal with wood-pellet company New Gas Concepts Inc. on two warehouses totaling 141,670 square feet.

The pellets would be shipped to Europe, where they are in high demand.
 
At least Americans are working.

Eric
 
At least Americans are working.
Eric

Speaking of working...how is that new employee of yours coming along? Has he chewed up your slippers yet?
 
codebum said:
At least Americans are working.
Eric

Speaking of working...how is that new employee of yours coming along? Has he chewed up your slippers yet?

He has doubled in size. He has made an attempt on the slippers but is fond of wooden stove handles. Well worth a pair of throw down slippers.

Eric
 
kinsman stoves said:
codebum said:
At least Americans are working.
Eric

Speaking of working...how is that new employee of yours coming along? Has he chewed up your slippers yet?

He has doubled in size. He has made an attempt on the slippers but is fond of wooden stove handles. Well worth a pair of throw down slippers.

Eric

Time for new pics
 
40% perecnt of pellets manufactured in USA and Canada are exported to Europe. Nice to see we ship something from this country, too bad we need it here, but it's all about money.
 
We in the US are just a blip on the radar compared to the pellet usage in Europe.
 
tinkabranc said:
We in the US are just a blip on the radar compared to the pellet usage in Europe.

Thats why they have such nice stoves and furnaces
 
I just found out my neighbor is one heckuva pellet pig....14 TONS..got them at a deal of $200/ton...I think he deserves a name higher than Pellet Pig..ANY SUGGESTIONS????
 
While I admire your new friend, @ 200/ton, I would call him a pellet HAWG!
sorry, no smileys
 
Where did he buy them at that price, I would go and get a few ton.
 
wish i knew mick..but he's not telling...not like he needs any for a few years...I'll try to bribe him with some coors and ny strips..wish me luck..Galway huh?...my dad was from there...just down from.. I think St.Mary Church heading towards Saratoga...small world..lol
 
They say we pay a premium for the pellets because of shipping costs. What kind of premium are they paying overseas? Has to be cheaper to ship by truck or train within the U.S, then to ship by train or truck to terminal, then ship overseas, and then ship by truck or train again to their dealers. Must be a lot of fuzzy math involved here.
 
Shipping to other countries is often cheaper than shipping within the US......

The dollar has gotten weaker too......

As an example, it might cost $5000 for you to ship a full truckload of stoves (or anything else) all the way across the USA....it might cost $3000 to ship the same container from Germany, Norway, etc.

Some of those container ships hold thousands of containers.....and they have a network in place. Over the road trucking is really one of the worst ways to ship stuff long distance.....

Interesting - I am visiting FL and there is a big article about full ships of Chinese made drywall coming into the USA and being used by many of the big builders. Talk about a low value product! Turns out the building boom died and much of it is sitting in warehouses.....the importing companies went out of business. You can buy it in bulk for next to nothing.......

Oh, and some of it had problems - too much sulfur in it, made things black and people have claimed to get sick from it.

Pellet plants are not big employers, and pellets are not exactly a "first world" high tech export worthy of our position, but in the "new" world anything goes. We are exporting vast amounts of raw products like cardboard, etc. for other countries to make into finished goods.

Also, give the shortage and high prices here - it's not like the exported pellets are "extra"....
 
Interesting post. It does not surprise me about the problems with the drywall, given where it came from.
 
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