Woodfuel Supply

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

The raw material to produce woodchip for fuel is plentiful in the UK. The Forestry Commission calculates the annual sustainable yield of timber from UK forests by area; only 500,000 tonnes of the annual potential of 1.1m tonnes in the south west is currently cut. Forest Fuels 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 the south west.

Production

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 woodchip or logs supplied complies 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 is maintained.

Forest Fuels’ team of experts can advise on woodfuel specifications to ensure optimum efficiency and uninterrupted operation of boilers.

Demonstrations

Forest Fuels operates its own woodchip boiler and customers are welcome to visit our offices in North Devon to view a demonstration and hear of its reliability. Alternatively we are happy to arrange for visits to other boiler locations.

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 across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire from depots around the region.