A high-performance, heavy-duty chipper can be a game-changer for large-scale operations, such as pulp, paper and pellet facilities. A properly maintained machine can last for decades, ensuring you can process even the most challenging types of wood into the right chip size.
But what sets a high-capacity vertical chipper apart, making it a game-changing factor for large-scale operations? Let’s dive in.
What makes the difference when choosing a heavy-duty chipper?
It’s essential to consider the investment decision for a wood chipper carefully. You want a choice that meets your current and future needs while enabling competitive production.
When making your selection, look for these features in wood chippers
Capacity. One crucial aspect is ensuring the machine can handle various materials, withstand high demand spikes, and stay active when scaling up your production. A high-capacity, heavy-duty chipper is also more cost-effective in the long term, streamlining production processes and reducing operational costs per unit.
Saalasti chippers offer remarkable capacity and incorporate robust overload protection. If substantial metal objects enter, specialized shear pins break, releasing the anvil and grate. This action triggers limit switches connected to these components, promptly shutting down the electric motor to prevent damage.
Robust design. Because you don’t want unexpected production interruptions, frequent repairs, or premature equipment replacement in your operations! A robust, heavy-duty wood chipper ensures long-term reliability, high performance with tough materials, and an extended operational lifespan.
Saalasti vertical crusher-chipper is the most robust crusher of its size. Its simple design features only one moving part: a rotor machined from solid steel.
High performance throughout the seasons. High availability maximizes productivity and returns on investment. This reliability is especially vital in industries where the chipper is integral to a more extensive production process, such as pulp and paper mills.
Saalasti chippers stand out from other machines by using a solid steel rotor with high inertia instead of a drum rotor. This design enables the machine to handle variations and surges in material feed by evening out the load.
Suppose there’s an excess in the feed. In that case, the rotor’s inertia processes the material spikes without significantly impacting the power supply, preventing the machine from stalling.
Easy-to-use. User-friendly features minimize the learning curve and the risk of errors, ensuring that a wide range of personnel can operate the equipment safely and effectively.
Operating Saalasti machines requires minimal operator supervision. The considerate design helps maintain a tidy work environment and simplifies upkeep, improving overall safety. Fewer operator interventions reduce the risk of accidents and errors, leading to a safer workplace.
Saalasti machines also have safety mechanisms to reduce damage if large metal or rock pieces are accidentally fed. Given their high hourly tonnage, the safety features are designed for quick resettings.
Maintenance service and spare parts. A machine is often said to be only as good as its maintenance services. Professional maintenance ensures your machine operates reliably for decades, even if your production conditions change.
The worn parts of the Saalasti chipper can be changed and, in many cases, rebuilt and reused. Though the spare part requirement is low, the chipper is so robust and heavy-duty that most parts can not be broken.
We offer blade replacements, maintenance inspections, servicing, and OEM spare parts, which are the best choices for your machine. Discover our maintenance services.
Versatility. What do you do if you want to change the material, particle size, or capacity? You don’t replace the entire machine; it adapts to your needs. The Saalasti chipper’s adaptability ensures you can easily handle any changes in your production needs.
By changing the blade, the machine reveals entirely new capabilities.
Thanks to the Multitool Rotor, the Saalasti V Crusher is also an adaptable chipper: by changing knives, the machine operates as a chipper or a crusher. This unique feature allows for different blades or cutter bars without changing the rotor, guaranteeing the correct particle size and capacity, no matter the material.
Hard-working with different materials. Do you operate with challenging materials like sticky or wet substances or eucalyptus? These can lead to blockages, especially when dealing with materials whose fibres can clog the machine. To make sure, choose a machine that can be configured and is adaptable to different materials. Also, it is essential to note that the blockage is only sometimes in the chipper but elsewhere in the production line – we can help you find it.
The solution is to choose a machine that can process various materials. Saalasti machines are suitable for different wood species and other fibrous agricultural products.
Saalasti chipper can be configured to process complex, sticky materials quickly. We have the expertise to handle this, allowing for the processing of often wet materials without causing blockages.
Energy efficiency. Efficient energy use reduces electricity or fuel expenses and contributes to sustainable practices. Energy efficiency can be improved by selecting chippers with advanced electric motors, maintaining sharp blades, and regularly servicing the equipment to ensure optimal performance.
Our machines use a cutting action instead of the energy-intensive crushing mechanism of traditional hammer mills, significantly reducing energy consumption. This results in lower operational costs and enhanced sustainability. Also, stationary machines are substantially more energy-efficient because they operate on electricity instead of fossil fuels.
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The muscle behind the chipping process: Saalasti heavy-duty chippers
Even if we say so ourselves, the Saalasti V Crusher-Chipper meets all the features above, and there are many reasons why it has become the market leader.
- Long history and reliability. The machine has become an industry standard in many countries. Our oldest machines have been in use since the 1990s.
- It processes various materials, such as bark and wood by-products from debarking plants, screening rejects, trees and logs, and wood waste.
- The particle size can be selected from a wide range of P100 to P32, with P63 typically used in boiler applications.
- We offer various knife options, including our specialized Multitool Rotor for challenging materials.
- It is a more cost-effective choice in the long run. Robust, elegantly simple design and extensive maintainability make it durable.
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