Lignetics Group

Employee size

51-200

Organization type

Privately Held

Headquarters

Mifflintown, PA

Founded

1993

For more than 30 years, Lignetics Group has turned wood waste into heating pellets and other sustainable products, operating 27 plants across the United States and Canada. Heating pellets are its flagship offering, made from residual material sourced through wood-industry and responsible forestry partnerships. The company’s pellet brands are distributed through thousands of retailers nationwide.

• Lignetics GroupFor more than 30 years, Lignetics Group has turned wood waste into sustainable consumer and industrial products, from heating and BBQ pellets to animal bedding and engineered materials. The company operates 29 plants across the United States and Canada and processes more than 5 billion pounds of wood residuals annually. Its Broomfield headquarters also houses an Innovation Lab researching new uses for lignin, wood flour, and other residual-based materials.ARCADE, NY
• Hamer Pellet Fuel CoHamer Pellet Fuel Co. turns sawdust from Appalachian hardwood sawmills into residential heating and grilling pellets in Kenova, West Virginia. Family-owned and the oldest residential pellet manufacturer in the Eastern United States, the company draws on five generations in the timber industry and began making pellets in the late 1980s to put sawmill by-products to use. Its Hamer’s Hot Ones and Hamer’s Smokers are made in the USA from verified sustainable Appalachian hardwood sources.KENOVA, WV
• Curran Renewable Energy, LLCBorn from a Massena, New York, logging business started by Patrick Curran and his brothers in 1976, Curran Renewable Energy manufactures wood-fuel pellets and other renewable wood products from North Country timber. The family-owned and operated company grew out of its sister logging operation and has more than 100 employees across the group, giving it control over the wood species and feedstock used in its pellets. Established in 2009, its pellet plant was the first biomass facility in North America to earn FSC certification, and its fuel is also PFI premium-grade certified.MASSENA, NY
• Lumber & Things, IncFounded in 1986, Lumber & Things, Inc. is a northeastern wood-processing company that manufactures and reconditions wooden pallets and skids. Its workforce of more than 250 employees processes 20,000 pallets per day, and the company also converts recovered wood waste into colored landscaping mulch.KEYSER, WV