In connection with the takeover of a competitor, the Swedish wood pellet manufacturer needed to combine and optimise the production on two complete packaging lines. Fisker previously supplied both lines and has now completed the optimisation to the customer’s entire satisfaction.
The Swedish Härjeåns Energi was originally called Härjedalens Miljöbränsle AB and today operates under the name HMAB. The company manufactures products such as wood pellets to be used as biodynamic fuel in the associated combined heat and power plant.
Purchase of second-hand plant
HMAB chose to purchase the production facilities of a competitor who closed its factory – including a complete wood pellet packaging plant. “The plant is around 10 years old, and we originally participated in the design and installation of the plant and therefore became very familiar with it,” says Service Technician Jesper Hedegaard from Fisker. “As we also installed the plant at HMAB, it was a logical choice for the customer to ask us to be responsible for the combining and optimisation of the new solution.”
Doubling of capacity
By combining the two plants, HMAB has almost doubled its capacity and today has an extremely high output of 16 kg wood pellet bags. “We worked hard to develop the right layout of the entire solution at the client’s premises, so that the two packaging systems can share the cap stretching machine at the end of the line, for example,” says Jesper Hedegaard. “The project went according to plan, and today the customer can utilise the increased capacity offered by the combined solution to the full.”
New possibilities with used systems
“The interconnection of the two plants at HMAB is an excellent example of how Fisker customers can make the most of the possibilities inherent in used systems,” says Sales Director Peter M. Henningsen from Fisker and continues: “We see more and more cases with plants we sold years ago being resold to new customers, and we are often ‘included’ to commission and optimise the plant. We have excellent experience with that and see many customers who make a good investment on second-hand plants.”