All wood pellets are biomass produced from conventional low-stemmed trees and other green vegetation. The most commonly used in households pellets are produced from sawdust and wood chips representing waste material from the trees used in the production of logs and furniture. Wood is one of the most abundant raw material resources, which will not concern the value of production of food or ethyl alcohol (ethanol). In order to produce wood pellets, you need wood pellet manufacturing equipment. This equipment includes material handling, material reduction, dryer, mixer and pellet mill. Also, you should have high-quality material and knowledge about the entire process of production.

In modern processes of production, low-quality forest products are removed and slicing of raw material. Resin and other related materials contained naturally in wood products, wood pellets connected, so basically they do not contain added substances. In other types of pellets used pods such as hides and skins are also burned grain pellets, which, however, have less spread. Most times the price and the fuel used depend on the most popular region in biomass.Raw material is processed at high pressure and also high temperature and pressed to small pellets, with the shape of cylinder. For the production of the product can be used softwood (for example, softwood, pine), hardwood (oak) and wood waste that are recycled. Wood pellets are produced in mills or workshops for wood pellets.

Compared to other fuels used nowadays, wood pellets, which appeared in North America in the ’70s as an alternative fuel way of producing fuel may be considered a new source of energy. The primary task of wood pellets was to help with solving the problem about energy crisis. Originally they were used for heating in 3 main sectors – industrial, commercial and public. The first domestic stoves, using wood pellets were sold to customers in 1983. It is amazing that only 23 years after that in North America already had more than 80 producers of wood pellets, which produced approximately 2.3 million tons of pellets. For comparison, in 2006 functioned in Europe 300 manufacturers of wood pellets with a total production 4.5 million tons.