1. Bulgaria: Company in the Woods
Team name: AS
Team leader: Alina Sagimuldina
Team member: Anna Svinukhova
Country: Kazakhstan
Pellets production – the future of biomass fuel
Compressed tree splinters used as
inexpensive ecological fuel

2. Bulgaria: abundance of forest
resources, 50,000 tons of dry unused
industrial wood waste
• 4.1 million ha of
land covered with
forest
• 373,438 m3 of
economically
available forestry
waste
• 80% of agricultural
waste available for
pellet production

3. Existing pellet companies
• Small scale production
• 5-150 employees
• Main focus on production of furniture, pellets
are byproducts
• Low domestic demand for pellets due to
unawareness of public

4. Our proposition
• Expansion of production or fusion of small
businesses which will concentrate production on bio
fuel (by 2020, demand for bio fuel is expected to
increase, for example, EU target to use 20% of
renewable resources)
• Need for construction of plant

5. Our proposition
• Channeling of products to Central Asia
through the Black Sea
• Raising of awareness of Bulgarian citizens
about pellet bio fuel (advertisement)
• Locating plant near the forest while
management team (logistics, export,
accounting, environmentalists) is situated in
the city