Wood pellet deliveries - as much or as little as you like

Some wood-pellet suppliers have a minimum delivery-size for blown deliveries. They will not make blown deliveries to smaller customers.

But smaller customers, without the manpower to handle the fuel manually, may value the convenience of blown deliveries particularly highly.

Where pellet suppliers set a flat price regardless of location and delivery-size, they can't afford to do deliveries below a certain size, because it is more expensive to do a smaller delivery than a larger one. A large part of the cost is in the haulage and the labour, and that is almost as high for a 2-tonne delivery as for a 10-tonne delivery.

Smarter pricing for blown wood-pellet deliveries of any size

At Forever Fuels, we believe that it is important to give smaller customers the option of blown deliveries. By pricing in a way that reflects costs more closely, we can offer blown deliveries to all wood-pellet users, large and small.

Our standard prices are calculated on the basis of a price per tonne for the wood pellets and a price for the delivery (calculated according to the distance from our nearest depot).

That means, if you live a long way from our nearest depot and want a small blown delivery, it will be expensive, but we will do it if you are willing to pay for it.

If you live very close to one of our depots and want a small blown delivery, it won't even cost you that much. And that reflects the reality, because we can probably deliver you a tonne or two on our way back to the depot from time to time.

Savings, simplicity and security with an inclusive wood-pellet supply contract

If you work with us, we have ways of reducing the cost of blown deliveries, even if you need small deliveries far from our nearest depot.

If you need several small blown deliveries a year to a site that is not close to one of our depots, it will normally pay to sign up for our inclusive contract. We will put a DELOX level sensor in your store, and monitor your fuel-level remotely. This will allow us to schedule deliveries to coincide with other deliveries in your area, thereby reducing the haulage cost per site.

We will estimate the saving that can be achieved and build that into a price per tonne, inclusive of pellets, delivery, DELOX-use, remote monitoring and scheduling. It gives you certainty of supply and price, and takes the hassle out of managing your fuel.

Sign up for ad hoc deliveries - piggyback on our larger wood-pellet customers

If you only need a couple of deliveries per year, the logistical benefits from a DELOX unit won't normally cover its cost. You may still choose to take an inclusive contract for the convenience and confidence, and save money compared to the cost of buying a DELOX system outright.

But we can also offer a cheaper ad hoc option. Let us know that you'd like to be put on our list for notification when we are doing deliveries in your area. If we've got spare capacity on the truck, we'll let you know and offer you (on a first-come-first-served basis) a fixed price per tonne to deliver as much as you can take from however much we have to spare.

You are under no obligation to accept our ad hoc offers, and we make no guarantees of quantity, availability or price with this arrangement. We'll give you the option as it comes up, priced according to the circumstances, and it's up to you whether to take it.

Investing for flexibility

Even if they priced smarter, our competitors would have difficulty offering what we offer legally. These arrangements rely on our investment in essential infrastructure.

One reason that we can cater to small deliveries is that we have Legal for Trade weigh-loaders on our pressurised tankers, so we can legally and accurately deliver part-loads, even small ones.

Another reason is our large network of depots and trucks. It is relatively easy to spare a couple of tonnes at the end of a delivery, because we normally don't have to go that far to refill.

And of course our introduction of the DELOX level sensors to the UK was key to making a service like our inclusive contract possible, making wood-pellet heating as easy as conventional fuels for the first time.