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Wood pellets have increasingly wider applications nowadays. Substitution of coal with biomass energy in several EU Member States, South Korea and Japan to meet carbon emission targets is driving demand for biomass pellets, especially wood pellets. Wood pellets and wood chips are the most commonly used fuel in biomass power plants. Wood pellets are usually made mainly from forest thinning, scraps and other wooden residuals of low economic value in the timber industry. As a result, wood pellet maker have larger and larger market all around the world.

According to the International Trade Administration, the United Kingdom, which continues to increase its use of biomass power, will cover one-fourth of the total consumption all around the world and will represent the largest pellet market for the United States and Canada. Below is the global import statistics of wood pellets in 2015 according to Global Trade Atlas.

Reporting Country Quantity Imported (kg)
United Kingdom 6,518,880,000
Denmark 2,076,428,000
Italy 1,640,239,000
South Korea 1,470,684,019
Belgium 988,652,000
Germany 434,672,000
Austria 367,843,000
Sweden 354,942,000
Japan 232,425,000
USA 207,171,527
Slovenia 160,359,000
Netherlands 140,171,000
France 136,793,000
Latvia 129,206,000
Switzerland 85,210,889

Wood Pellet Machine UK

In the United Kingdom, most wood pellet machine manufacturers are devoted into the design and research of small wood pellet maker, such as Pelheat and Farm Feed System. However, they are both good at manufacturing small wood pellet mills. Especially the founder of Pelheat, Chris Scott always makes comparison between small wood pellets making machines made in China or UK. Generally speaking, although there is difference between wood pellet mills made in China or the United Kingdom, they all have their own perspective advantages. Small wood pellet mills imported from China to UK also have earned wide popularity and good reputation. Nowadays, China is not the Old China. With the latest advanced technology and strength in research and design, wood pellet mills made in China has marched into many countries in different regions all over the world. Small wood pellet machine made in China may be not the best one, but it is certainly the most cost-effective one, as the pellet mill has high quality and low price. To be honest, some manufacturers of small pellet mill in the United Kingdom are actually the agent of Chinese manufacturers. They import wood pellet mills from China to UK in large scale but have their own logos on the machine, or better than this, making small changes of the pellet machines. However, one thing that should be remembered is that the price of wood pellet making machine sold by the local seller in UK is also higher than that is directly imported from China. And this is also the reason why Scott put out on its own website that his company offers service for customers who are struggling to operate wood pellet maker imported from China or encounter other problems while using them.

To be frank, wood pellet maker imported from China has large market share in UK. Apart from small wood pellet mill, large wood pellets making machine or the complete wood pellets manufacturing plant made in China also has increasingly wider application. We have successfully set up a 1 ton per hour wood pellet line in UK for our customer, Mi Generation Living Energy in the United Kingdom. You really can count on wood pellet machines made in China, count on us.pellet mill plant in uk

Wood Pellet Market in UK

In the United Kingdom, wood pellet consumption occurs on both large and small scale, with little ground in between. Small scale wood pellets production is consumed by individual householders or farm owners. While large scale wood pellets manufacturing is co-fired in power stations for the production of electricity.

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