Highland Pellets

Name

Highland Pellets

Legal name

Highland Pellets LLC

Website

https://highland-pellets.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Highland Pellets LLC is a Pine Bluff, Arkansas-based wood pellet manufacturer producing over 600,000 metric tonnes annually from sustainable forests, serving industrial and renewable energy customers as a subsidiary of the Highland Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wood Pellet Manufacturing

NAICS

Wood Product Manufacturing (321)

SIC

Lumber & Wood Products (No Furniture) (2400)

akta.pro primary industry

Pellet & Wood Fuel Manufacturing (IMAMABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Wood Pellet Manufacturing (EUAAAJAA), Biomass Pellets, Briquettes & Solid Bioenergy Products (industrial/residential) (IMAMALAJ)

Keywords

• Wood pellet manufacturing
• Biomass pellets
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable forestry
• Carbon capture

Headquarters

HQ city

Pine Bluff

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Wood Pellet Manufacturing: Manufacturing and sale of wood pellets produced from sustainably sourced wood. Production capacity of over 600,000 metric tonnes per year.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Highland Pellets LLC manufactures wood pellets at industrial scale from sustainably sourced timber harvested from working forests in South Arkansas. The Pine Bluff facility produces over 600,000 metric tonnes of wood pellets per year for renewable energy and industrial markets, with a planned integrated biomass power plant and carbon capture system to supply renewable heat and electricity to the facility and adjacent industrial customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wood Pellets

Quantifiable outcome

• Produces over 600,000 metric tonnes of wood pellets per year from sustainable sources

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tyson FoodscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 April 2026Highland Pellets plans to supply transferred heat from its planned biomass power plant to the nearby Tyson Foods poultry plant. This represents an industrial symbiosis arrangement where waste heat from pellet manufacturing powers neighboring food processing operations.

Scale indicators3 records

Direct peers

• Enviva: Enviva is the world's largest producer of industrial wood pellets, operating more than ten plants primarily across the U.S. Southeast. It is the most direct scale and business-model comparable to Highland Pellets, including reliance on working-forest feedstock and export-oriented industrial customers.
• Pinnacle Renewable Energy: Pinnacle was one of the largest industrial wood pellet producers in North America, with facilities primarily in western Canada and the U.S. Southeast, before being acquired by Drax. Its plant footprint, residual-wood feedstock model, and utility-offtake customer base closely parallel Highland's operating model.
• Fram Renewable Fuels (formerly German Pellets): Fram operates industrial wood pellet plants in the U.S. and Europe, producing utility-grade pellets from forest residues. Its commodity pellet production model and export-oriented customer base make it a close functional peer to Highland.
• Lignetics: Lignetics is one of the larger U.S. wood pellet manufacturers, producing premium residential and commercial pellets from sawmill residuals and wood fiber. Its product mix, U.S. production footprint, and use of secondary wood fiber align closely with Highland Pellets' operations.
• New England Wood Pellet: New England Wood Pellet is a U.S. manufacturer of hardwood wood pellets for residential and commercial heating markets. It shares the same pellet-manufacturing process and end-market exposure to renewable heating demand that Highland serves.
• Pacific BioEnergy: Pacific BioEnergy operates the Princeton Wood Pellet facility in British Columbia, producing industrial wood pellets primarily for export to Asian utility customers. Its residual-wood feedstock model and export focus make it a direct functional and operational peer to Highland.
• Marth Premium Wood Pellets: Marth is a U.S. manufacturer of premium hardwood wood pellets serving residential and commercial heating customers. It is a relevant U.S. peer for product mix and customer base, though smaller in industrial-scale output than Highland.

Broad incumbents

• Drax Group: Drax is the world's largest biomass power generator and a vertically integrated owner of pellet manufacturing capacity (including former Pinnacle assets). It competes with Highland for utility offtake and is a benchmark for the integrated "pellets plus biomass power" model Highland is moving toward with its carbon-capture plant.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/HighlandPellets

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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