Chris Franklin, Chairman at Ranheat Engineering Ltd – a leading UK manufacturer of wood combustion equipment – continues his series of articles exclusively for Furniture and Joinery Production. This month he writes about spiralling costs for energy due to the conflict between Iran and the USA, and why now is the time to invest in a wood-fired boiler or heater.
With parts of the country receiving near record pricing of heating oil, the time is now right to look at burning your own wood-waste. With conventional fuel costs rising and increases in landfill tax, the case for investing in self-sufficiency has never been stronger.
Most automatically-fed wood-fired systems are located near the dust extraction system for the factory so that the extracted wood-waste can easily be transferred to a storage silo and then automatically fed into a boiler or heater.
Many Ranheat customers produce large amounts of wood-waste, often from man-made boards such as MDF, MFC Plywood etc. These man-made boards, when machined using modern CNC machinery, can often produce a fine dust or “flour”. Disposal of these fine dusts can be difficult and expensive, unless used as a fuel in a Ranheat automatically-fed wood-fired system.
Conversely, even if you only have a small amount of wood-waste and you utilise bag extraction systems, Ranheat offers a solution for small producers in the form of its bag-loader. As a manufacturer, we make a wide range of storage and feed mechanisms.
Contact Ranheat for further information on all types and sizes of industrial woodburning equipment from 75 kW upwards.
Ranheat also make spares and services and repairs other makes of woodburning boilers and heaters.
01604 750005
