Wood pellets

Wood pellets from Beikircher Grünland are made of 100% natural chips from milling and saw mills. With the help of a special production technique, the resource gets compressed under high pressure to pellets. These can be used in automatic pellet heating or in pellet ovens.

Facts about pellets:

Advantages from heating with wood pellets

Independence

Pellets are produced from wood - a renewable resource. Therefore they are a good alternative to expensive oil and gas imports and the production is independent of energy crises on the world market.

Economic efficiency

2 kg wood pellets correspond in their heating value to approximately 1 litre heating oil. Higher purchase costs for the heating system are easily written off by the low cost of the pellets (compared to other fuels) and possible government subsidies (depending on your country of residence).

Comfort

The pellets are delivered free by our tank lorry (just like heating oil and liquid gas) and they will be blown into your storage room. With a 30 m long hose and a strong fan, our lorry can deliver to storage rooms that are difficult to access (if indicated on your order, we can also deliver with a 50 m hose). Additionally, we make use of a suction device that filters the dust from the air.
The operating comfort of pellet heating systems does not fall short of conventional systems. The consistent dryness of the pellets and their standardised size of 6 mm guarantees trouble-free heating in connection with consistently high energy generation while burning.

Environmental sustainability

Compared to other fuels, wood burning is CO2-neutral. This means that burning only releases as much CO2 as was stored in the wood during its growth period. Our pellets do not contain any chemical or synthetic additives that could be released when burned. Whenever possible, wood pellets from Beikircher Grünland are extracted from local resources because our objective is the promotion of local value-added processes. Wood pellets are produced in Olang by the company NORDPAN AG (www.nordpan.com) and therefore do not need to be transported over great distances. This is one more aspect when talking about environmental sustainability that improves local values and sustainably secures jobs in the country.

Quality

Beikircher wood pellets are produced by the company NORDPAN AG according to ÖNORM M 7135. This standard makes sure that the pellets are made of pure wood without any additives like synthetic binding agents and other contaminants (e.g. paint or plastic). ÖNORM sets precise rules for size, specific weight, fuel value and remaining moisture of the pellets.

Pellets also suitable for wood chip heating

Wood chip heating can also be run by pellets with hardly any problems. A major advantage of wood pellets over wood chips is that they take up considerably less storage space (about one fifth of the space for wood chips). This allows the whole supply of pellets to be stored at low cost in the summer. Further advantages to wood chips are: lower remaining moisture content and standardised sizes which produce consistent burning.

About our delivery

For satisfying smaller orders we deliver pellets in handy plastic bags to 15 kg (also suitable for storing outdoors) or in environmentally friendly paper bags to 25 kg. This way you can enjoy all advantages of pellet heating without buying large amounts at once. Bags are always available. IMPORTANT: while filling the storage room, the heating has to be turned off!