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County business featured in regional journal |
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November 22, 2017 |
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aerial view of the 20-acre North Idaho
Energy Log plant just west of Moyie
Springs, where energy-efficient heating
logs and pellets that warm homes across
the nation are made. |
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By Mike Weland
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North Idaho
Energy Log co-owner Clark Fairchild on a
visit to the Hauser plant. |
Clark Fairchild's picture is big and bold in
today's issue of Spokane's Journal of Business,
with him standing in front of a snow-covered
mound of the chips that make up the North Idaho
Energy Logs made right here in Boundary County.
“Right now, we just cannot produce enough
product,” co-owner Fairchild told reporter Keith
Erickson during a recent tour of the Moyie
Springs plant. “We’re busy now, but even in the
summer months, we’re in operation around the
clock to keep up with demand.”
And it's good to see the business getting some
well-earned regional media attention.
Founded by a group of loggers in 1986 who were
looking for a way to get more value from the
trees they harvested, North Idaho Energy Logs
now employs 24 local workers full time and ships
the locally manufactured logs and pellets, made
under the immense pressure of old, cast-iron
presses combined with robotic tech and cutting
edge science, across the nation.
Operating 24 hours a day, five days a week in
Moyie, is bolstered by a second plant producing
nothing but pellets in Hauser, Idaho, about 90
miles south of the Moyie plant.
“It’s a great business; a productive business
that pays above the local wage of the community,
and they’ve been a steady employer for a number
of years,” Boundary Economic Development Council
director Dennis Weed told the author. “Their
market continues to grow, and they continue to
produce more.”
To read more about this gem of a North Idaho
business in the Journal of Business,
click here.
To learn more about all North Idaho Energy Logs
has to offer, visit their website,
www.northidahoenergylogs.com. |
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