FASC Lakson AGES Thermix DGR and St-Malo Heating
The link between all of the above is Simo Lakhmiri.
1) He is Brian's rep for Eastern Canada to market the KDS
2) He is the CEO of Lakson International Development
3) He was involved in some way with AGES years ago
4) His office is actually on the second floor, just over Thermix, which is also operating under A1 Technical Agencies. Both companies sometimes do business together.
5) DGR forestry Consultant was refered to Lakson via Brian in 2010, when DGR first got interested in the KDS technology
6) St-Malo Heating was just bought by 3 holdings respectively owned by Simo Lakhmiri and MM. Côté and Proulx, both forest engineers with DGR.
The St-Malo project will implement the KDS technology to convert wood residues to wood dust, either to fuel dust burners and pellet burners, or the produce wood pellets. A pellet burner and a dust burner will be retrofitted on current steam boilers at St-Malo, in replacement of gaz burners, to generate cheaper and cleaner energy. Both types of burners will also serve as demonstration of technologies that should spread around over the next years. And these burners will require more wood dust and pellets, which will require more KDS to condition wood residues.
The KDS is the cheapest technology available to grind and dry biomass, when the raw material supply is relatively small, let's say under 50 000 tons/year. The St-Malo project will produce 10 -15 000 tons/y of dry powder. Small quantities allow to get cheaper feedstock at lower cost, to serve local market at short distance and still remain competitive against other sources of fuel. Many potential buyers of the KDS are just waiting to see how the machine will perform at St-Malo to "cut and paste" the model in their own town.
By the way, the province of Quebec has regulated about CO2 emissions; starting on Jan 1st 2013, carbon credits will be sold starting at 10 $/ton of CO2 to large compagnies that are unable to comply with the reduction objectives set by the Ministry of Environment. Since St-Malo is converting from gaz to biomass, it will become a seller of such credits of CO2. You can bet that interested buyers of a KDS will also want to get into this secondary business!
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