Workers at Corinth Wood Pellets are just days away from opening up what could become the largest wood pellet manufacturing plant in the country, with plans to produce more than 140,000 tons of wood pellets each year.
When the first two pellet making production lines are running it's estimated there will be about 30 full time workers. When Corinth Wood Pellets adds a third line there could be 40 employees.
Workers are busy this week getting the pellet manufacturing plant ready to go. They've moved into the site of the former Corinth Products and Higgins Lumber Mill.
Ken Eldredge is a manager at the plant and he says there is worldwide demand for the pellets, used in wood stoves, because the price of wood is more constant than oil.
