About Biomass Chains
Biomass supply chains are not built in spreadsheets.
Biomass Chains is a specialist advisory and execution practice for serious biomass, biochar, renewable heat, industrial decarbonisation and carbon-removal projects.
The work is led by Patrick Madigan, whose background sits close to the actual point where biomass projects succeed or fail: fibre availability, supplier behaviour, moisture, bark, contamination, loading rates, port constraints, vessel economics, legality, certification, GHG performance, contracts, investor confidence and first shipment execution.
Biomass Chains exists for one reason: to help credible parties turn a biomass resource idea into a supply chain that can actually operate.
Operational judgement
From log yard to plant gate
Founder-led advice grounded in fibre catchments, yard design, supplier behaviour, logistics, contracts, buyers and investor evidence.
Mandate fit
Selective by design.
The work is for serious parties that need defensible evidence and execution support. It is not structured as unpaid market-entry advice.
Real counterparty
A buyer, developer, investor or project owner with authority to act.
Defined decision
A geography, feedstock, volume, use case or investment question that needs evidence.
Paid diligence
A mandate structured for proper work, not extraction of technical views before engagement.
Execution path
A need to move from resource idea to compliant, contractable and physically workable supply.
Practical biomass-chain development.
This is not general sustainability consultancy. It is practical biomass-chain development for credible parties that need to know whether a resource idea can become a supply chain that actually operates.
Experience base
Across fibre, residues, ports and project evidence.
Patrick has worked across wood pellets, woodchips, forestry residues, sawmill residues, agricultural residues, invasive biomass, lignin pellets and biochar feedstock pathways. His experience includes board-level biomass strategy, industrial project development, pellet and wood-fibre supply chains, export logistics, supplier due diligence, port handling, vessel planning, sustainability systems and investor-facing project work.
Operating questions
The questions that decide whether a chain can operate.
Is the fibre really there?
Who controls it?
Can it be accessed legally and sustainably?
Will it meet specification?
Can it be aggregated?
Can it move through the port?
Can it survive freight, moisture, contamination and claims risk?
Will a buyer, lender, investor, auditor or certification body believe the chain?
What we are
- Operators, project developers and supply-chain builders working where biomass projects become physical.
- A specialist practice across the interface between resource owners, industrial buyers, investors, ports, auditors, logistics providers, certification systems and project developers.
- A judgement-led partner for mandates that need evidence, route logic, documentation, contracts and execution discipline.
What we are not
- Not biomass brokers.
- Not a free idea-screening service.
- Not a source of unpaid supplier lists, route designs, GHG assumptions, certification opinions or market-entry strategies.
If the mandate is credible, we can help move it from concept to bankable evidence, and from bankable evidence to physical supply-chain reality.