Pinnacle held a ground breaking ceremony at the site last September in order to officially open the plant and construction has been continuing since this time.
"We made our first pellet on Jan. 27, 2011," said Lodge who indicated that the plant is only able to process dry feedstock and shavings into pellets at this time.
"We anticipate that before the end of February 2011 we will have installed one of two dryers and by the third week in March we will have installed the second dryer.
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