Solid Energy’s Nature’s Flame business will build a third wood pellet plant in the Aratiatia Industrial Park, north-east of Taupo.  It will be capable of producing up to 150,000 tonnes per year of the clean-burning fuel and when operational in the second half of 2009 will confirm the company’s position as the largest producer of wood pellets in the Southern Hemisphere.  The other Nature’s Flame plants (at Rotorua and Rolleston,) together can produce 60,000 tonnes.