BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 22, 2023
An Ashland mill owner is planning a $7 million expansion to produce a new wood pellet product. Tyler Player, a mechanical engineer and owner of MaineFlame Inc., wants to turn out more than the compressed logs his company now produces at the former Levesque lumber mill in Ashland. The expanded operation would manufacture a different type of industrial heating pellet. Player’s operation would use leftover tree debris to make steam-exploded wood pellets, also called “black pellets,” because they resemble coal.