In Sweden, energy utility and wood pellet producer Härjeåns Energi AB, a subsidiary of Härjeåns Kraft AB selected Danish packaging solutions specialist Fisker Skanderborg A/S (Fisker) to combine and optimise the production on two complete packaging lines following the acquisition of used equipment from a closed pellet plant.
Härjeåns Energi operates a 75 000 tonnes-per-annum pellet plant in Sveg and plans to increase production to 120 000 tonnes by 2020. The company recently acquired the production facilities of a competitor that had ceased operations including a complete Fisker 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. As we also installed the plant at Härjeåns, it was a logical choice for the customer to ask us to be responsible for the combining and optimisation of the new solution, said Jesper Hedegaard, Service Technician at Fisker.
By combining the two packaging systems, Härjeåns Energi has almost doubled its bagging 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. The project went according to plan, and today the customer can utilise the increased capacity offered by the combined solution to the full, said Jesper Hedegaard.
New possibilities with used systems
The interconnection of the two units at Härjeåns Energi is an excellent example of how Fisker customers can make the most of the possibilities inherent in used systems. 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, said Peter M. Henningsen, Sales Director at Fisker.
