ENplus® has certified over 13.3 million tonnes of wood pellets in 2024
After undergoing an evaluation process, the ENplus® certification scheme has successfully passed the acceptance verification for accreditation by the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA) according to the requirements set out in the document EA 1/22 A-AB 2023 “EA procedure and criteria for the evaluation of conformity assessment schemes by EA accreditation body members”. ENplus® is now the only wood pellet quality certification on the market to receive such recognition.
ACCREDIA was the Home accreditation body who conducted the assessment of ENplus® by collecting comments and feedback from all National Accreditation bodies, members of the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA). As a result of the recognition, all certification bodies listed by ENplus® will now be required to be accredited specifically to the ENplus® standard, rather than to a general pellet ISO standard as they were previously.
ENplus® has certified over 13.3 million tonnes of wood pellets in 2024. Germany is the leading country with almost 3.7 million tonnes of ENplus® certified pellets produced in 2024. Austria comes second with a slight increase to reach a total of 1.7 million tonnes of certified pellets. France is third with 681 000 tonnes of certified pellets. Top 5 also includes Spain and Poland.
Following a year of a slight decrease in the certified volumes, the projections for 2025, calculated based on the submissions of the certified companies, predict an increase to over 14 million tonnes of certified pellets.
The past year was a significant one for the ENplus® fraud management team which further developed the scheme´s blacklist database by exposing not only fraudulent entities but also misleading websites and contacts details to be avoided by the users. The scheme follows strict procedures, approved by lawyers, to be executed in cases of infringement and lack of cooperation.
ENplus® has reached a total of 1300 identified and solved fraud – an achievement that speaks for the ambition of the scheme to remain relevant and protect its users.
A dedicated mobile application was also released this year. It enables pellet professionals and consumers to verify a supplier’s certification, scan a bag of pellets to check its approval status, and easily report fraud. The app has already been downloaded by thousands of users from Europe and beyond.