Forestry Overview
Forestry professionals in china trust the Unimax name for maximum production and superior reliability in remote locations. Responsible and effective forestry applications require equipment that can perform on difficult terrains and in difficult conditions. Horizontal grinders and wood chippers process trees, logs, stumps, brush, and other material into consistent final products.
In many cases of in-woods chipping and grinding, the remote location requires trucks and other logistical considerations. Unimax re-imagined the value curve with loggers and land clearing contractors in mind. Maximum production rates from Unimax grinders and chippers load trucks faster to keep the entire operation moving at an efficient pace. Unimax’s offset helix rotor design and reinforced hog box provide owners with the best production rates. High-clearance tracks and rugged components offer superior mobility and reliability in remote locations. See some of the case studies below.
Forestry Application Case Studies
Logging and Land Clearing
From day one, Unimax grinders have been purpose-built for the power and portability demanded by modern land clearing operations. Logging and land clearing operations can leverage Unimax’s advancements in portability to reduce fuel consumption and the overall cost of transportation. Tracks and wheels, as an option on Unimax equipment, allows companies to process material on site in dense woods, at landfills, and even over rugged terrain. In many cases, this eliminates the need to transport bulky raw material to a production facility – thereby reducing fuel consumption and emissions while increasing profit margins. Additionally, they can grind, chip or shred material to a size that makes the best sense for their end product and maximize each truck load – while conforming to legal weight limits.
Biomass
Biomass is made from organic materials, such as wood, to produce renewable fuel or electricity. When processed correctly, these organic materials can be converted to energy through combustion as burner fuel, chemical conversion, or anaerobic digestion. A common use of biomass includes grinding or chipping waste wood down to a specified size (spec) to be used as burner fuel at power plants.
Unimax engineers biomass chippers and grinders around the goals of environmental and economic efficiency. Unimax’s equipment is designed to keep biomass out of landfills and in the hands of manufacturers who efficiently transform it into biofuel.
Orchard Recycling
Whole Orchard Recycling (WOR) is both an economical and sustainable alternative to the open burning of agricultural waste. When growers need to remove old trees, Unimax grinders and chippers efficiently process the material. End product can be recycled in various ways.
Orchard recycling can incorporate the biomass back into the ground and improve soil performance for the next generation of trees. This emerging practice turns a problem into a sustainable solution.
Unimax machines are ideal for orchard recycling applications because of their mobility and high-volume production. The versatility of a UMD1600’s “cassette-style” rotor allows owners to quickly switch from a chipping rotor to a grinding rotor.
