Cloverdale Fuel
20408 102B Avenue , Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Cloverdale Fuel has been in the wood by-products brokering and transport business since 1945 and has established itself as one of the most experienced and able businesses in the field. JDS Gill, founded the company with one truck and mill contract and it has expanded to the current large fleet size of trucks, trailers, log chippers, roll-off and disposal bins, loaders, excavators and tub grinders. Darcy Gill, the son of the owner has been involved in the wood waste and wood by-products business for almost 60 years.  We have grown our business and company, but this growth can largely be attributed to the success and acumen of our customers. We are pleased to say that some of our customers have been with us since the company began operations over sixty years ago. A lot of our own growth is an addendum to the growth of larger companies which we deal with. We grow with our customers, and as they have bought, expanded, or augmented their operations, we have been responsible for all transportation and wood waste issues or concerns.  Our primary business revolves around the transport, disposal and sale of wood by-products. These products include: sawdust, shavings, hogged fuel, bark mulch, bark nuggets, mill-ends, wood-chips, pulp-chips, and pole-peelings. We haul this product from our various re-loads or mill-direct to customers throughout the Canada and the United States. Our customers are varied and include: Construction companies, Landscapers, Equestrian Centers, Agricultural and Cattle farmers, as well as Greenhouse growers, Sawmills, Pulp-Mills, General Waste Companies, Fiberboard plants, and Re-manufacturing plants, and Paper mills.

Biomass

Cloverdale Fuel has been a leader in the development of wood waste into biomass fuel since its inception in 1945. The name “Cloverdale Fuel” has its roots in those origins. Our business was started during the peak of the second world war, when necessities we take for granted such as oil, electricity and gas were scarce and rationed. Almost every home and most business heated their homes with wood or sawdust.  Our founder JDS Gill, would load his truck and deliver firewood and sawdust around the lower mainland to various homes and business who depended on our company for heat and light. From these humble origins, we now provide wood fuel generated from our custom grinding and recycling operations to heat and power massive pulp and paper facilities, greenhouses, and even district energy projects.  Cloverdale Fuel was chosen in 2011 to provide wood fuel for the University of British Columbia’s Bio energy Research and demonstration facility(UBC BRDF) in Vancouver. We are very proud to have been chosen from a number of local wood fuel providers as the best and most innovative generator and provider of fuel for the project. We are the only total solution for wood waste derived biomass in the lower mainland, meaning we have custody of the wood waste from inception to delivery, and our company controls the entire process.  We can source complete fuel blends tailored to particular system needs whether they be gasifier or direct combustion systems and deliver them throughout the lower mainland and Washington State at a cost that is feasible for the customer(s)

AVAILABILITY

Biomass fuel is readily available. Although there are several potential sources of the fuel, waste wood from lumber processing, saw dust from saw mills, and wood waste from other processes is readily available. With the majority of people and businesses relying on the burning of fossil fuels for their heating and energy needs, biomass fuels are not likely to become scarce. Cloverdale Fuel can have biomass fuels delivered right to the doorstep of your home or office.

AVOIDING FOSSIL FUELS

Burning coal, burning natural gas, and burning other fossil fuels have high costs both for the user and for the environment. Having to refill tanks of gas, purchase new stores of liquid fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel, or kerosene, is time consuming as well as costly. The costs of fossil fuels are high for the user, and it is also high for the environment. When natural gas is extracted, oil is drilled for, or coal is mined, there is high environmental cost. By utilizing biomass fuels you can begin to remove your home or business from participation in that cycle, which is much more ecologically responsible.  Biomass fuels can be sourced in a responsible manner, which is not something that can be said for fossil fuels. A biomass fuel source from a lumber mill, which utilizes sustainable practices, is both ecologically friendly, and it is recycling a waste product that would otherwise have to be disposed of in a manner that avoids using fossil fuels. Biomass fuel is truly a great idea.