The planned expansion of Enviva Pellets Ahoskie, located in Hertford County, will increase the biomass supply plant’s production capacity by 50,000 metric tons annually, to 350,000 metric tons total.
Premium quality wood pellets produced at the Ahoskie plant will depart from the Chesapeake, Virginia-based port that Enviva acquired earlier this year, further enhancing the efficiency and reliability of its supply chain.
The company said the expansion of Enviva Pellets Ahoskie, construction of which is on time and on budget, will not impact existing plans for the plant to be operational by the end of this year.
Enviva is currently developing sites for two additional wood pellet manufacturing plants in the mid-Atlantic region, each of which will be operational by late 2012, and another site in either Mississippi or Alabama which will become operational in early 2013.
