Nippon Paper Industries, Tokyo, plans to start roasting the wood pellets as to produce biomass fuel in fiscal 2018. The company’s project includes the production of  heavy efficient-burning wood pellets as to use them as biomass fuel for electricity generation.
As reported by Nikkei Asian Review, through a process called torrefaction, the Japanese paper company plans to produce biomass fuel. This implies roasting it, by heating the wood at low temperatures for an hour. During this time, the wood releases a substance capable to burn by doubling the heat volume of the wood chips. Thus, the power generation efficiency also doubles.