As pellet exporters ramp up in the South (soon to be consuming 10 million tons per year of wood), strategic fiber sourcing should accrue to their advantage over traditional pulp and paper competitors.
Aggressive and well-financed exporters gain that advantage, in part, by deploying a new procurement model – one aligning them much closer to suppliers, all of them hungry for a market more reliable, and predictable, than pulp and paper.
And with loggers in severe financial distress and stumpage resources stretched thin in several areas, a new approach is essential, and appears underway in the South. Advantage pellets.
