West Salem Offers Biomass Systems

West Salem Machinery (WSM), Salem, Ore., says its “decades of application expertise and experience building rugged, mill-duty bulk feeders, screening, cleaning, and grinding/milling equipment” put it in the position to offer systems that turn biomass materials into high-quality feedstocks.

    According to a WSM release, the company’s bulk feeders allow loading of large amounts of material for metered feeding into the processing system. Screening removes fines and abrasive material for reduced grinder maintenance, and can classify sized material prior to grinding to reduce power consumption.

The company adds that cleaning with magnets removes large uncrushables prior to grinding. WSM’s horizontal and vertical grinders process large volumes of raw incoming feedstock, including stumps, land clearing and urban wood waste. Finish milling for finer fiber is performed with WSM heavy duty shredders and hammermills. The machines produce fiber for pellet/densified fuel manufacturing, co-firing material, agricultural fiber, wood flour, mulch, fiberboard and cellulosic ethanol feedstock.

WSM says it can provide individual components or fully integrated systems for processing a wide range of feedstock into fiber/fuel products.

More information on the company and its products can be found at www.westsalem.com.