SmokeyTheBear said:
save$ said:
SmokeyTheBear said:
save$ said:
That's news. How does a company that charges and gets top dollar go into bankruptcy? I hope that the new owners continue to produce a quality product. Off course it would be good if they were a bit more affordable but I do understand the process of top heat commands the to $.
The company that is in receivership assets are being bought by the company who gets top $ for their pellets here on the east coast.
Looks like you may have it sorta backwards save$.
You are right (as usual)! So my question become mute. I know I am in a bit of a fog,. Now, my perception that Mr. Warm and Mr. BTU have something in common?
And to find out it that mill will produce pellets for domestic distrubution and what their pellets will be.
Too bad some mill in Maine can't get a hold of a soft wood pellet that they can market in competition for Okies. I know MWP tried, but has suspended that effort.
Mr. Warm was BTU on here and the Okie rep, they are the folks who had the winning bid in on the Enligna plant. Maybe they want to ship stuff over to Europe.
Scott and the crew at MWP could do the softwood thing but changing the plant between types isn't easy nor is it cheap to have the plant out of operation while doing the change. That along with the amount of Softwood sawdust available likely is preventing things from continuing in that vein.
You're right Smokey. We need to get at least 6,000 tons ahead before we could shut down and switch over to all softwood. We also would need about 3,000 tons per week of raw softwood supply stored ahead and we don't have millions of acres of beetle-kill spruce and fir like they have out west. Our softwood pellet is almost 100% pine (the animal bedding is 100% pine) which makes a darker looking pellet than dead spruce and it isn't easy to dry. But, I think the pine pellet smells better.
With the current demand, it will probably not be until this summer before we can afford to switch to softwood.
I am adding some more equipment - including another pellet mill - but we've already had to turn away some stores this year because demand has been so high and next year looks even busier. The box stores especially have wanted a lot more than what we could commit to. And, I can't just increase production at the expense of quality. I'd rather have trucks waiting for good pellets and have them all back next year than push out a larger quantity of sub-par product this year and loose sales next year.