Fuel Supply - Chip

Using specialist machinery and its own storage depots, Forest Fuels supplies woodchip and wood to the correct specification for all models of commercial wood-fired boilers.

Your wood chip will be sourced and processed as close to your boiler as possible to reduce haulage costs and carbon emissions.

Automatic wood-fired boilers are usually installed with dedicated woodfuel stores to ensure they can operate over long periods without manual handling or maintenance. It is therefore essential that the wood chip supplied comply with individual boiler specifications for particle size, moisture content and without contaminants. Our production process is carefully managed and delivered to ensure a consistently high quality of woodchip of is maintained.

The wood chip specifications Forest Fuels can supply are: G30, G50 and G100 at moisture contents between 35% and 60% for virgin timber, but lower for clean recycled chip. Forest Fuels’ team of experts can advise on woodfuel specifications to ensure optimum efficiency and uninterrupted operation of boilers.

Delivery

Deliveries of wood chip can be made in a variety of vehicles:

• Tipping bulker lorries of between 25 - 35 cubic metres.
• Tipping or walking floor artic lorries for larger volumes up to 90 cubic metres.
• Blown deliveries by specialist blowing vehicle of 20-35 cubic meters
• Scissor lift and tractor-trailers for small volumes of 12 cubic metres or dumpy bag deliveries.
• A number of our customers take delivery of solid timber and Forest Fuels ltd chips on site direct into the wood chip store.

The Forest Fuels team can advise on the most suitable delivery method for your site.

Supply contracts

Forest Fuels offers supply contracts that guarantee quantities and qualities of woodchip for fuel which are tailored to meet their customers’ needs. A long term contract provides the opportunity for planning and has the benefit of ensuring a secure supply at the most advantageous price. Typically supply options include:

• Long term (3-5 years) woodfuel supply contract
• Fuel conversion (woodchipping) service from customer’s own timber supplies
• Long term fuel management contracts where Forest Fuels takes responsibility for continuity of fuel supply but where required, incorporates a customer’s own timber
• ‘One off’ or emergency woodchip or supply can also be accommodated
• Fuel can be supplied by the kWh, cubic metre or tonne.

To ensure a prompt and continual supply from local woodland resources, Forest Fuels delivers woodchip locally across the UK from our 11 strategically placed depots.

Sustainable local supply

The raw material to produce woodchip for fuel and hardwood firewood is plentiful in the UK. Forest Fuels ltd can provide long-term, guaranteed supplies of woodfuel and has established links with the Forestry Commission and many private estates, sawmills, joinery organisations and other growers across England.