A single source for
alternative fuels

cceptance of biomass energy as a clean, affordable energy option has boosted demand for alternative fuel. Now more than ever, fuel availability, price and procurement have become the driving force in power plant operations.

Primary Power Fuels, LLC is the fuel procurement and brokering operation of Primary Power International. Its goal is simple: Provide effective and effi cient fuel sources to environmentally compliant power plants.

Based in Flint, Michigan, Primary Power Fuels manages five separate fuel procurement and processing operations, and operates a 7,000-ton capacity barge for Great Lakes shipping.
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WOOD FIBER

Michigan’s forest industry encompasses 18.6 million acres of forestland, the fifth largest in the U.S. and represents $12 billion and 200,000 jobs in tourism, recreation and forest-related industries. Primary Power Fuels operates three companies at that specialize in the collection and processing of virgin wood products and wood fiber gleaned from the waste stream, such as crates and pallets.

HILLMAN FOREST PRODUCTS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Primary Power International, is a significant player in that industry.

Acquired in 2004 with the intent of securing and stabilizing wood fuel supplies for Hillman Power Company and surrounding wood-fired power plants, Hillman Forest Products has become far more than a source of energy wood. It provides total tree harvesting services for dimensional lumber and process wood chips for the manufacture of hardboard, chipboard and paper.

Grade logs make up 10% of Hillman’s production, 40% goes into process chips and 50% of its output is energy wood, which includes contract grinding and transport of wood fuel to area biomass plants.

Hillman Forest Products is certified through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
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