Koskisen is increasing the refinement of its production side streams by launching briquette production at a new plant adjacent to its Järvelä sawmill in Finland. The facility will compress shavings, a by-product from planing sawn timber, into biofuel briquettes for heating and power plants. The plant has an annual production capacity of 10,000 tonnes, according to Koskisen.
The conversion process makes transportation more economical, as a single truckload can carry four to five times more briquettes by volume than loose shavings. This reduces both logistics costs and associated emissions. The briquettes are a dry, efficient fuel with a calorific value of 4.7 to 5.2 MWh per tonne and meet the SFS-EN ISO 17827-1:2024 standard for the commonly used P63 particle size.
