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NATIONAL LIFE GROUP, Montpelier, Vermont, United States

National Life Group's New Biomass Boiler System Outperforms Expectations
To find out if a biomass heating system works smoothly or not, ask the people who really run it—day by day.... Full story

LIMLAW PULPWOOD AND CHIPPING, West Topsham, Vermont, United States

One Woodchip Supplier's Story of Investment, Market Building, and Success
In Topsham, Vermont, Bruce Limlaw’s family history in the wood-supply
business goes back to the horse-drawn days, and runs through the years when shipping pulpwood to paper mills was a major northern New England industry.... Full story


	MADSEN'S CUSTOM CABINETS, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada For a Custom Woodworking Business in Alberta, Waste that Was a Headache Is Now Heating Fuel Asked how he got into heating his high-end woodworking business in Edmonton, Alberta with its own wastewood, Kent Madsen says: "To be perfectly honest, what motivated me to do this was, my partner drove me nuts.".... Full story

CHISHOLM LUMBER, Tweed, Ontario, Canada

Lumber Firm's Waste Wood Now Heats Its Drying Kilns
In 2004, a fire consumed the two drying kilns operated by Chisholm Lumber in Tweed, Ontario. In this setback, the company saw an opportunity.... Full story

FRONIUS INTERNATIONAL FACTORY, Wels, Austria

Underground Woodchip Boilers Provide High-Efficiency Industrial Heat
The most unusual aspect of the woodchip system that heats the large Fronius International factory in Wels, Upper Austria, is this: It’s underground.... Full story

WOODCHIP DISTRICT HEATING BUSINESS, Joutsa, Finland

Simple Business Has a Cost-Saving Product: Shared Heat
The Joutsan Ekowatti woodchip district-heat business is a shareholder venture that operates, mostly, without people.... Full story

MITTER TRANSPORTE FUEL COMPANY, Linz, Austria

Going with the Future: A Transporting Company Shifts to Pellets
A few years ago, the Mitter Transporte fuel company in the suburban town of Haid outside the central Austrian city of Linz felt strongly the currents of change—and its managers responded.... Full story

NRG WIND SYSTEMS, Hinesburg, Vermont, United States

At a Super-Efficient Industrial Site, Pellet Boilers Are the Choice
When David and Jan Blittersdorf, owners of NRG Wind Systems in Hinesburg, Vermont, were planning their business’s new manufacturing and office facility—a building that would use one-fifth to one-third as much energy as typical facilities of comparable size—they pondered how best to heat it.... Full story

A. REPONEN OY, Joutsa, Finland

With a Mostly Home-Built System, A Family Business Trades Oil for Woodchips
Biomass-fueled district heating is a Finnish specialty: about half of the country’s buildings, large and small, receive heat through a biomass district system.... Full story

LATHROP FOREST PRODUCTS, WOODCHIP SUPPLY OPERATION, Bristol, Vermont, United States

Former Sawmill Business Now Grows with the Chip Market
From the yard of Lathrop Forest Products in Bristol, Vermont, Jim Lathrop can see a notch in the steeply forested wall of the Green Mountains. That’s where his ancestor, Noah Lathrop, bought into a sawmill business in 1878. Six generations later, just a few years ago, Jim was running one of the best-respected lumber-processing operations in Vermont.... Full story

HEADQUARTERS AND MANUFACTURING PLANT, XOLAR Group, Eberstalzell, Upper Austria

A Solar Firm's Super-Tight Headquarters Building Aims to Become Wholly Heat-Energy Independent
One Austrian company’s goal has been to build an industrial facility that will, in time, require virtually no external heating fuel or heat supply. Xolar Group, a fast-growing maker of solar hot water panels, is on a path to succeed. Biomass plays an important role, in the form of three relatively small wood pellet boilers tucked away in a basement of this large building.... Full story

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