Page 19 - Georgia Forestry - Issue 2 - Spring 2023

Enviva Biomass, in Waycross, GA, is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets.
A Growth Industry
“One of the things that makes Georgia very logistically [import- ant] is just port access,” said Christopher Fagan, manufacturing and distribution practice leader at Moore Colson. “You’ve got your woody biomass within a very close proximity to the [Savan- nah] port. So a lot of these pellet mills in South Georgia have rail spurs and these pellets are going straight onto the train, directly to the port. It becomes cost prohibitive if you have to ship too much on rail, and most of the pellet mills [are] centered
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