Swedish sawmill Hilmer Anderson has selected bioenergy specialist Saxlund to provide fuel handling and biomass combustion technology for its latest 12MW hot-water boiler project.
The order is worth £2.3 million, and the new plant is due for commissioning in 2015, the plant will deliver hot water and process heat to the timber kilns by combusting waste wood, including sawdust, wood chips and bark.
"This is an important order for Saxlund and evidence of our standing as a quality supplier to demanding biomass energy customers in Sweden and abroad," comments Matt Drew, managing director of Saxlund International in the UK.
"It is also an excellent example of industrial process heat demand being supplied by renewable biomass energy."
Drew says the project will harness low value fuel to provide a sustainable and reliable source of heat.
He also says that Saxlund is seeing mounting interest for modern biomass fuel management technology, particularly difficult to handle fuel sources, such as waste wood and solid recovered fuel (SRF).
In the UK government incentives, such as the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) make these solutions especially attractive.
