County business featured in regional journal

November 22, 2017

An aerial view of the 20-acre North Idaho Energy Log plant just west of Moyie Springs, where energy-efficient heating logs and pellets that warm homes across the nation are made.

By Mike Weland North Idaho Energy Log co-owner Clark Fairchild on a visit to the Hauser plant. Clark Fairchild's picture is big and bold in today's issue of Spokane's Journal of Business, with him standing in front of a snow-covered mound of the chips that make up the North Idaho Energy Logs made right here in Boundary County. “Right now, we just cannot produce enough product,” co-owner Fairchild told reporter Keith Erickson during a recent tour of the Moyie Springs plant. “We’re busy now, but even in the summer months, we’re in operation around the clock to keep up with demand.” And it's good to see the business getting some well-earned regional media attention. Founded by a group of loggers in 1986 who were looking for a way to get more value from the trees they harvested, North Idaho Energy Logs now employs 24 local workers full time and ships the locally manufactured logs and pellets, made under the immense pressure of old, cast-iron presses combined with robotic tech and cutting edge science, across the nation. Operating 24 hours a day, five days a week in Moyie, is bolstered by a second plant producing nothing but pellets in Hauser, Idaho, about 90 miles south of the Moyie plant. “It’s a great business; a productive business that pays above the local wage of the community, and they’ve been a steady employer for a number of years,” Boundary Economic Development Council director Dennis Weed told the author. “Their market continues to grow, and they continue to produce more.” To read more about this gem of a North Idaho business in the Journal of Business, click here. To learn more about all North Idaho Energy Logs has to offer, visit their website, www.northidahoenergylogs.com.