New Liskeard, Ontario, company to make pellets

May 20, 2011 – A New Liskeard, Ontario,
logging company has accepted a wood supply offer from the province of Ontario
to build and operate wood pellet manufacturing plant, creating up to 16 new
jobs. KD Quality Pellets has accepted an offer of 90,000 cubic-metres/year of
merchantable and unmerchantable timber to produce pellets for residential,
commercial, and industrial customers. The new plant is expected to be
operational by late 2012.

"We are very pleased to have been
awarded this wood supply,” says Ken Doupe, president of KD Quality Pellets. “We
are anxious to move ahead with this project, and the wood supply is a key part
of that."