Enviva Releases Latest Track & Trace™ Data Continuing Excellence in Sustainability Leadership
BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Enviva, the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets, today
released its latest Track
& Trace sourcing data, which marks two years of publicly
available reporting of the company’s sourcing material.
Enviva’s established Track & Trace data program validates that the
company’s sourcing material comes from sustainable and well managed
working forests that are thriving and growing across the Southeastern
United States.
“We are committed to advancing sustainable forestry practices and to
ensuring transparent and responsible management of our supply chain,”
stated Jennifer
Jenkins, Enviva Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer. “We
are delighted that once again, our Track & Trace data serve as a
testament to this commitment and that the U.S. Forest Service’s Forest
Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data validate that forest area and
inventory continues to increase in the areas where we operate,” she
added.
Track & Trace’s proven technology enables the company to provide
unmatched transparency about the origin of every truckload of wood the
company procures from the forest or sawmill, along with detailed
insights into the wood’s unique characteristics.
The latest dataset shows that Enviva sourced wood from 1,157 working
forest harvests in 76 counties and in 5 Southeastern states over the
six-month period ending in December 2017. The forests in the
Southeastern United States continue to grow and thrive, with the total
amount of forest area in Enviva’s primary supply area increasing by more
than 300,000 acres and forest inventory increasing by more than 150
million tons since 2011.
Other findings from the latest Track and Track data include:
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Approximately 39 percent of Enviva’s wood came from pine and hardwood
mixed forests, 38 percent from Southern yellow pine forests and 3
percent from upland hardwood forests. The wood sourced by Enviva
consists of undersized or “understory” wood that was removed as part
of a larger harvest and tops and limbs, brush and “thinnings” that
were removed to make additional room for planted pines to grow. -
Approximately 19 percent was sawdust, shavings or residuals from wood
product manufacturing. -
2 percent came from working bottomland hardwood forests, also
consisting of undersized or “understory” wood, and tops and limbs. -
Less than 1 percent came from arboricultural sources, such as
landscaping and urban tree maintenance. -
Wood received from these tracts came from forests that were an average
of 37 years old at final harvest.
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About Enviva Holdings, LP
Enviva Holdings, LP is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood
pellets, a renewable and sustainable energy source used to generate
electricity and heat. Through its subsidiaries, Enviva Holdings, LP owns
and operates wood pellet processing plants and deep-water export
terminals in the Southeastern United States. We export our pellets
primarily to power plants in the United Kingdom and Europe that
previously were fueled by coal, enabling them to reduce their lifetime
carbon footprint by about 80 percent. We make our pellets using
sustainable practices that protect Southern forests and employ about 680
people and support many other businesses in the rural South, where jobs
and economic opportunity are sometimes scarce. Enviva Holdings, LP
conducts its activities primarily through two entities: Enviva Partners,
LP, a publicly-traded master limited partnership (NYSE: EVA), and Enviva
Development Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned private company. To learn more
about Enviva Holdings, LP, please visit our website at www.envivabiomass.com
and follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/enviva)
and Twitter (@EnvivaBiomass).
Contacts
Enviva Holdings, LP
Dustin Brandenburg, 301-657-5560
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