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Pellet Pellet is a new, economic and alternative form of fuel. Wood pellet or biomass of wooden form is a standardized cylindrical biological fuel in small size which is consisted of forest, agricultural and wood processing wastes.

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For the production of pellet there are no chemical substances or additives involved. Pellet is a very competitive fuel, towards fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and electricity and it is both economical and easy to use.

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Advantages of Pellet

• Practical: it is transported packaged and can be used with automatic proportioning device for catering of fire.

• Ecological: a) in order to create pellet there is no need to cut trees because it is produced from discarded or recyclable timber, and it is perfect combustion eliminates the amount of ash produced. b) It reduces forest residues from timber production and the furniture industry.

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• Cheap: it is cheaper than oil and electric energy and it presents a more stable course of price changes.

• It is the most economic fuel: 60% of the money which someone would spend for space heating.

• The equivalence of thermal performance is: 1 lit oil to 2 kg pellet.

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Factories of pellet production are located in Corinth, Lamia, Ioannina, Western Macedonia, Drama, Veria, Kastoria.

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