Aug 11, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. O'Malley Lumber Co., a Baltimore-based industrial wood firm, plans to turn 60,000 tons of sawdust a year into a $4.5 million wood pellet business.
O'Malley Lumber plans to turn wood scraps into alternative fuel
Aug 11, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. O'Malley Lumber Co., a Baltimore-based industrial wood firm, plans to turn 60,000 tons of sawdust a year into a $4.5 million wood pellet business, Baltimore Business journal.
The company built a $4.5 million plant in Tappahannock, Virginia, to turn the compressed dust into wood pellets that can be used in pellet-based stoves and furnaces. The wood pellets are cheaper than heating oil and are more environmentally friendly, said Mike O'Malley, CEO of O'Malley Lumber.
"Instead of having to pay to get rid of the wood waste, there are people who want to pay me for it," he said.
To ramp up its new pellet business, O'Malley Lumber, which employs 120 workers in Baltimore, will add another 35 jobs at the new plant in Virginia. The company also will shift some of its manufacturing from Baltimore to Virginia. But the company's assembly and sales operations will remain in Baltimore and no local jobs will be cut or moved, O'Malley said.
