Ekman Danmark A/S a subsidiary of Sweden-headed global forest products trader Ekman & Co AB, has recently installed a new pellet bagging from packaging solutions provider Fisker Skanderborg A/S (Fisker) at its Vildbjerg facility in Central Jutland. With the new solution, Ekman has increased its bagging capacity significantly and allowed for expandability in the future.
In Denmark, Ekman has two plants in Jutland for bagging wood pellets and woodchips in Vildbjerg and Aalborg respectively. The new solution is built around an F1200 servo-driven bagging machine with much greater capacity than Ekman’s current machine. Moreover, the weigher, roller conveyor, and pallet magazine have been replaced in the current solution.
We chose to increase our capacity in stages and we still have the option to upgrade further as and when the need arises. Therefore, in the first instance, we decided on a bagging machine with a capacity of 12 pallets an hour against the current seven pallets. It provides great capacity benefits here and now. At the same time, we have the option of speeding up production further at a later stage by upgrading the entire palletising component, explained Jens Albrechtsen, Key Account Manager at Ekman.
Credibility is paramount
For Ekman, credibility was a crucial factor in the choice of supplier. Jens Albrechtsen knew Fisker from before and had a good impression of the company.
Naturally, the concepts and machinery on offer together with the price affected our choice of supplier. But we also attached great importance to the after-sales service and the confidence we had that our supplier would be able to reduce our downtime in the event of problems. We are confident that Fisker will be able to live up to our expectations, which is why we are also concluding a service agreement with a call-out service from the company, said Jens Albrechtsen.
