U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 1 million &nbsp;tons of densified biomass fuel in October, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Monthly Densified Biomass Fuels Report. Sales of densified biomass fuel reached 970,000 tons during the month.The EIA collected data from 74 operating manufacturers of densified biomass fuel to complete the report. The report does not include data on facilities with annual production capacities of less than 10,000 tons, which report data annually rather than monthly.<img src="https://bbi-strapi.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/image_17c059ad62.png">The 74 manufacturers surveyed for October had a total combined production capacity of 13.03 million tons per year and collectively had the equivalent of 2,439 full-time employees.Respondents purchased 2 million tons of raw biomass feedstock in October, produced 1 million tons of densified biomass fuel and sold 970,000 tons of densified biomass fuel. Production included 155,744 tons of heating pellets and 560,423 tons of utility pellets.<img src="https://bbi-strapi.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/image_e78dbf666a.png" alt="*">Domestic sales of densified biomass fuel in October reached 198,893 tons at an average price of $245.57 per ton. Exports in October reached 773,661 tons at an average price of $203.18 per ton.Inventories of utility pellets expanded to 662,174 tons in October, up from 561,001 tons in September. &nbsp;Inventories of premium/standard wood pellets fell to 178,207 tons in October, down from 235,394 tons in September.Data gathered by the EIA shows that total U.S. densified biomass fuel capacity reached 13.43 million tons in October, with all of that capacity listed as currently operating or temporarily not in operation. Capacity included 1.97 million tons in the East, 10.67 million tons in the South, and 797,700 tons in the West.&nbsp;

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U.S. manufacturers produced approximately 1 million  tons of densified biomass fuel in October, according to the U.S. EIA’s Monthly Densified Biomass Fuels Report. Sales of densified biomass fuel reached 970,000 tons during the month.

EIA: Densified biomass fuel production at 1 million tons in October

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