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$10M Biochar plant opens in Waverly
Restoration Bioproducts‘ executives and employees gathered with state and local officials Wednesday to celebrate the opening of the company’s Sussex County biochar production facility. Through a thermal decomposition process known as pyrolysis, the facility heats waste wood to high temperatures in an environment without oxygen to transform the material into syngas — a combustible gas[...]
Boar’s Head to indefinitely shutter Va. facility tied to fatal listeria outbreak
Deli meat company Boar’s Head Provisions Co. is indefinitely shutting down its meat production facility in Jarratt, the source of a listeria outbreak that killed at least nine people and hospitalized 57 others. The plant has not been operating since late July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened an investigation on July 19. […]
Critical minerals co. reactivates Petersburg operation
Petersburg-based Atlantic Strategic Minerals will invest more than $50 million to restore and reopen a mining operation in Dinwiddie County and a concentrator plant and mineral separation plant in Sussex County, producing critical minerals that are used in various supply chains, the governor’s office announced Monday. The project is expected to create 71 jobs at […]
Restoration Bioproducts to build $5.8M biochar plant
Lynchburg-based Restoration Bioproducts LLC will invest $5.8 million and build Virginia’s first biochar production facility in Sussex County, creating five jobs and purchasing 34,560 tons of Virginia-grown wood products, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday. Wood pellet manufacturer Wood Fuel Developers is already in Waverly. Restoration Bioproducts will use pyrolysis technology to turn wood[...]
