The Expobiomasa 2025 Innovation Awards jury has awarded Prodesa the highest recognition for the development of its RGV rollers, a revolutionary solution that optimizes the granulation process and marks a milestone in pellet production. Headquartered in Zaragoza and present in more than 15 countries, Prodesa […]
Pellet consumption in Europe in pellet stoves and boilers with power up to 50kW for residential heating, reached 14,1 million tonnes in 2021, in 2020 it was 11,9 million, which indicates an increase of 18% more than the previous year. These are data from the latest Bioenergy Europe Statistical Report.
ECOFRICALIA is the distributor in Spain of the Italian company SMARTWOOD, a manufacturer of pelletizing machines, which stand out for fitting into self-consumption projects and/or short marketing channels. Its products include small and medium-sized production plants of between 200-1000kg/h, aimed at local companies: carpentry shops, furniture factories, doors, windows... And various organizations that
Avelino Peláez, head of the Amandus Kahl branch in Spain, presents the features of the brand's largest capacity granulator mill in the following video. With two 315 kW motors, it achieves a production capacity of up to 12 t/h of wood pellets. More information: https://www.akahl.com/fileadmin/media/akahl/Propsekte/Pelletpressen_Biomasseindustrie/Prensas_Peletizadoras_Industria_de_la_biomasa.pdf
Prodesa brought the ProGranul Toro granulator as a great novelty to Expobiomasa 2021. It is a product whose design, engineering and manufacturing are its own. Alberto Sánchez from PRODESA MEDIOAMBIENTE In this video, he explains all the features of the product. More information: https://prodesa.net/granuladora-progranul-toro/?lang=en
At Expobiomasa, Prodesa Medioambiente presents a new optimization process for its clients and performance tests with two different developments to increase production and reduce electricity consumption. The results have been very satisfactory and they are currently working with five more clients to improve their electricity cost per tonne of pellets.
The company, which produces 40.000 tons of pellets per year using forestry waste from the area, plans to increase its production to 60.000 tons per year. For this reason, it has undertaken various investments to improve the plant and the storage system and thus optimize production capacity and reduce costs. This commitment has cost nearly three million euros.
Wood pellets are an important alternative to fossil fuels because they are environmentally friendly, sustainable and CO2 neutral. And it is an extremely smart way to recover waste from wood treatment. This is evidenced by the growth in demand for forest biomass of 14% worldwide in 2018.
PRODESA's after-sales division, Smart Operations, works to ensure maximum quality and maximum production of pellet production plants. PRODESA provides, among other services, the management and supply of rollers and dies of all brands, with its own manufacturing and designs. Other services include revamping,
ECOFRICALIA, official distributor of Smartwood for the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, presented this new range of pelletizers at Expobiomasa 2021 After months of development, the Italian manufacturer of pelletizing equipment SmartwoodÒ brings to light the new range of PLT200 pelletizers, equipment designed for small entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing pellets and
The new AMANDUS KAHL pellet press: The 65 – 1500 series with 630 kW drive. Features: Lowest operating costs Maximum operational reliability and operating hours of up to 8000 h/year and more Only 4 pellet presses for 300.000 t/year Market leaders rely on AMANDUS KAHL pellet presses
The world's leading certification system for high-quality wood pellets continues to grow for another year. ENplus® confirms that in 2020 the total production of certified pellets reached 12,3 million tonnes and expects the quantity for the current year to exceed 14 million tonnes.
Since January 2021, the machinery importer and distributor FARMING AGRÍCOLA has been obtaining energy to heat its offices, workshops and showroom at its headquarters in Palencia thanks to a 180 kW ÖKOTHERM boiler that uses self-produced straw pellets as the only fuel. The company is a distributor in Spain of
“The webinar was an interesting first contact for our companies and also for Canadian organizations on a topic with great potential for development in both countries, such as the generation of energy with biomass, an important resource both in Canada and in Spain,” according to Javier Díaz, president of AVEBIOM. Nadia Rego, commercial delegate
Naturpellet faces its crucial period of the year driven by the expansion of its manufacturing capacity that has just been completed. After making an investment of 3,5 million euros, it will go from producing 40.000 tons of pellets to 60.000. The icing on the cake of a growth process developed in phases that started in 2018 with the incorporation of
The 2020 Solid Biofuels Map prepared by AVEBIOM and updated in September 2020 shows the location and data of 83 pellet factories, 61 chip factories and 25 olive stone factories inventoried in the last year in Spain. It also includes information on 59 pellet, chip and stone centres in Portugal,
Despite the ongoing pandemic, more than 1,5 million tonnes of wood pellets were produced in Germany in the first half of 2020, representing an increase of 13%, 173.000 tonnes compared to the first half of 2019. In order to meet the increase in domestic demand driven by
Sixteen years ago, the Ortín family decided that they could use part of the 16 tons of waste they collected daily from furniture companies in Yecla to make pellets and sell them as an ecological fuel and as an alternative to petroleum. Currently, demand for them is increasing by around 300% annually thanks to several
With firm steps, Naturpellet continues to raise its sights and the company has already begun work to increase its production by 50%, which will allow it to go from 40.000 to 60.000 tonnes. Naturpellet has seen meteoric growth in the last five years. Pallet Tama, the parent company, started out as a very small company. As the company grew, the company
AMANDUS KAHL manufactures pellet presses with a drive power of 3 kW to 630 kW. The different sizes available are eleven in total. The production capacity in most wood plants is between 1,5 and 12 t/h per pellet press. More information: http://www.akahl.com/
A leap in quality, safety and efficiency in biomass transport. This is what Noma, one of the main manufacturers of transport implements in Brazil, guarantees with its new Smart Floor Titanium line that comes to the market to break paradigms and increase competitiveness in biomass logistics. The new trailer
With the Andorra thermal plant scheduled to close in June 2020, Forestalia is planning to build a new pellet plant in the same municipality. With a planned capacity of 200.000 tonnes per year, it will be the largest in Spain. This plant would create 60 direct jobs and more than 350 indirect jobs, including storage.
Pellet production in Spain still has a wide margin for growth, since only 35% of the biomass resources generated each year, which are around 50 million cubic meters, are used. This low utilization, 30 points below the European average, causes an excessive accumulation of waste.
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Saalasti is an expert in Transforming Biomass into Actives through precise control of particle size and moisture content. Since 1945, the family-owned company from Finland has built long-lasting relationships with its customers and has accumulated over 70 years of experience in heavy machinery and almost 40 years of experience in manufacturing.
The peculiarities and dynamism of the domestic pellet market, which this year will register a new record production figure in Spain by exceeding 700.000 tons, has advised the holding of an international conference to analyze its characteristics, among which it is worth highlighting the contrast between the frequent symptoms of saturation followed by
Thermally drying a ton of water has an energy balance that easily reaches 900 kWh. With the new Saalasti 1803 “HIPPO” Press, the same amount is extracted with about 25 kWh, the difference is in the order of 35 times more efficient. The technology is based on channeling a constant flow of water
Prodesa presents the most compact mobile pellet manufacturing plant of up to 5 t/h on the market. The system includes the grinding and pelletizing stages, with all the intermediate stages of packaging in 4 approved 40-foot maritime containers. PelletBox presents multiple combinations that allow working with raw materials from different origins and
EcoPulser is a mill that does not grind by mechanical contact, but rather by means of "shock waves" generated by the rotation of the two rotors. This new system allows for 2% savings in energy costs compared to conventional mills such as hammer mills, chippers, and other types of mills.
The operation of the Cleaning and Recovery Equipment (patent ES2606774) is based on the principle of separation by density in a wet medium in two phases of the raw chipped vine shoot. It is a continuous cleaning and rinsing process, composed of two units arranged in line: Unit 1: Separation of high-density elements. Equipped with
