About us
Southern Biomass
Southern Biomass
Partnering for better energy solutions
Southern Biomass offers an accelerated pathway to better industrial heat energy solutions and decarbonisation for the Southern region.
Our operations represent an end-to-end network of forestry, logistics resources and business expertise, ensuring capacity and capability in the supply chain.
Owned by Dynes Transport and leading South Island forestry owners, IFS Growth and Earnslaw One, Southern Biomass offers energy options that are both sustainable and cost effective.
Centrally located to Southland Forest stocks, the green biomass production facility has capacity to produce 69,000 tonnes of pellets annually and is supported by a reliable road and rail network.
This cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels presents valuable resilience to the regions energy mix and relieves pressure on the current demands of the electrical infrastructure.
Southern Biomass provides:
Localised supply chain to wood fibre
Central location to forest stock, with existing site infrastructure
Supported by nearby road and rail infrastructure
Supports big industry to transition to reliable and sustainable energy source
Job creation and economic development
The Site
Mataura in Southland
Centrally located to forest supplies and energy users in Mataura, the Southern Biomass site leverages infrastructure from the existing lignite briquette plant, saving time, resources, and cost.
The operation is near rail and road infrastructure, which reduces transportation-related carbon emissions, further enhancing the overall environmental impact.
The Mataura Southern Biomass plant is the first of a well-staged expansion into the biomass industry across the southern region, that will be in business collaboration with forestry partners.
Why Southern Biomass?
Southern Biomass partners with customers.
We work closely with our customers to understand their immediate and future energy requirements, and demonstrate the benefits of energy diversification.
Southern Biomass offers a staged adoption plan to inform customers on the different pathways to achieving better energy solutions.
Energy resilience not only offers improved business performance outcomes, it also delivers significant environmental gains.
Benefits of partnering with Southern Biomass
Uses local fibre supplies
Utilisation of low-demand forestry product
Energy resilience, confidence and independence
Diversification of energy source improves business continuity
Biomass wood pellets mean lower transport costs
Low cost entry to energy diversification for industrial heat
FAQs
Where is the site?
Mataura, Southland
When is the project due to start?
The site and plant have been purchased and will be operational in 2025
Who is behind the Southern Link Biomass project
Dynes Transport and IFS Growth Ltd
In partnership with IFS Growth (leaders in sustainable, profitable, safe forestry), Dynes Group formed Southern Biomass.
Dynes Transport is a locally owned and operated family business based in Dunedin, who deliver 1 billion litres of milk annually and cart 2 million tonnes of logs per annum.
IFS Growth are leaders in sustainable, profitable, safe forestry. They own over 20,000 hectares of forest (with a wider team over 200,000 hectares of forest). IFS Growth plant 5 million trees each year; and harvest 500,000 tonne per annum.
How do I find out more?
Please make an enquiry via the contact form on this website, or alternatively email us at: enquires@southernbiomass.nz