{"id":15598,"date":"2012-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120309-06n"},"modified":"2012-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:00:00","slug":"russia-to-supply-asian-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/russia-to-supply-asian-biomass\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to supply Asian biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The plant, which is expected to come on line this year, will exclusively supply Asian markets, according Bioenergy International Russia general director Olga Rakitova. &#8220;Asian markets are showing an interest in Russian pellets,\u201d Rakitova said. &#8220;There is great biomass potential in Russia.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wood residues from Arkaim&#8217;s wood processing plants at the same site will provide feedstock for the biomass plant. The pellet plant will raise Russian pellet production capacity to more than 2mn t\/yr, but actual production is falling short of this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2011, we expected to produce 2mn t, but the actual figure was closer to 860,000t, up from around 800,000t in 2010,\u201d Rakitova said. &#8220;This is due to Vyborgskaya Cellulose, which has now changed its name to VLK, experiencing some start-up problems and not producing at its full 900,000 t\/yr capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has pellet plants in Arkhangelsk, Krasnoyarsk and Tver, which produce about 100,000 t\/yr each. A second plant in the Krasnoyarsk region came on line last year and is now producing at around 80,000 t\/yr, Rakitova said. &#8220;Russia has 23pc of the world&#8217;s forestry resources, but only a quarter of the needed biomass volumes are currently used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arkaim&#8217;s plant was originally scheduled to start up in September last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The plant, which is expected to come on line this year, will exclusively supply Asian markets, according Bioenergy International Russia general director Olga Rakitova. &#8220;Asian<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3263,3264],"class_list":["post-15598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-arkaim-","supplier-bioenergy-international-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}