WOOD PELLET
What is pellet made of?
We use our own sawdust and wood chips as the highest quality raw material for pellet production.
What are pellets used for?
Pellets belong to biofuels. We produce them from sawdust and wood chips. Besides heating private homes, apartments and houses, pellets are used as fuel in larger heating systems such as boiler rooms in public institutions and plastic agricultural production. There are examples worldwide for the usage of wood pellets as litter in livestock production on farms.
What is the ash content in Finvest Corp pellets?
According to the ENPlus standards for pellets in the category A1 or EN ISO 18122, the permitted amount of ash is < or = 0.7%. In our small laboratory, we control the production every day. The average annual value of ash content in out pellets is 0.62 %.
What kinds of pellet packaging do you have?
We typically pack pellets in:
- 15 kg polyethylene (PE) bags
- 900 kg do 1500 kg capacity polypropylene (PP) big bag bags
- filling tank trucks suitable for transport of bulk cargo.
What kind of wood, raw material do we use in the production of pellets?
Finvest Corp d.d. is located in the Croatian pool of green with the largest number of fir and spruce. In our production, we use fir and spruce.
What markets do you operate in?
Our pellets are mostly found on the European market of Italy, Slovenia and Austria. And of course, on the domestic, Croatian market as well.
What international certificate do the pellets have?
Finvest Corp d.d. has the ENPlus A1 certificate with the code HR017.
TRANSPORT PROTECTION
How does the transport protection take place?
We prepare the protection of finished products by chemical treatment – immersing transport packages in the pool and by painting the front of the package with protective paints. Protective paints are red and green, depending on market demand.
What does “threated” mean?
We define threating as all measures implemented to ensure uniform quality and extended life of wood and wood products. Along with natural treatment in oxygen atmosphere, there are many chemical solutions and procedures that extend the life of wood and wood products, and increase durability and resistance to destruction from insects and fungi.
DRYING
What kind of wood can you dry?
In our capacities, eight chambers with more than 500 m 3 and control technology, we can dry every kind of wood. This includes species that do not originate from our pool. The control technology with its computer surveillance enables us to do so.
What levels of drying can you achieve?
In general, we can meet all market requirements. When it comes to wood technology
standards:
- transport dryness – humidity 18 % +/- 2 %
- semidried – humidity 16 % +/- 2 %
- carpentry dryness – humidity 12 % +/- 2 %
- according to the customer’s technology requirement – humidity less than 10 %.
What amount of material can you dry?
We have large dryer capacities. In eight chambers, we can dry more than 500 m 3 of wood material in one cycle.
How long does the drying process last?
The drying process depends primarily on the type of wood and the average humidity at the beginning of the drying process. The average humidity is also affected by whether conditions in the given season (winter, spring, summer, autumn).
Why is it important to dry timber?
When wood is used as construction material, as structural element in buildings or for further processing, it will absorb or desorb moisture as long as it is not balanced with the environment. Balance (drying) causes uneven shrinking of wood and can damage it if the balance is achieved too quickly. Balance must be controlled so that it would not damage the wood.
Is there a connection between colour and quality of wood pellets?
The colour is not important for the quality of wood pellets. The quality of wood pellets is reflected in ash quantity and calorific value.
IMPREGNATION
What is impregnation?
Impregnation is a protection procedure that increases durability of made wood products. The procedure includes the exposure of timber products in the kettle to vacuum (drying) and then to the impregnation agent, extending their durability to 20 years. The whole procedure lasts six hours and the impregnated products have an increased resistance to atmospheric influences as well as plant and animal destruction.
