Hekotek delivered to Etablissements GAIFFE SARL equipment for logs handling with collecting conveyors for sawing residues. The customer is a family business keeping up the local sawmilling traditions, located in NE part of France.
With Veisto OY HewSaw sawing line as the heart, the new sawmill complex also has a range of Hekotek-manufactured equipment – log sorting line and log in-feed equipment to the sawing line, as well as conveyors for collecting, sorting and removal of sawing residues (bark, chips, sawdust). A specific feature of this project is high-speed in-feed of short (2.5 m) logs.
At the moment, mechanical installation is coming to an end and will be completed before the end of 2022, while the start-up of the equipment is scheduled for spring 2023.
The range of the equipment supplied within the project framework is quite standard, however, the project has rather an interesting feature – the log in-feed line will handle both round logs and the so-called ‘square’ ones. The fact is that the mill is going to process logs of a larger diameter. These logs are first to go through a band saw to get the slabs removed, and only after that follow to the in-feed line delivered by Hekotek, and further – to the saw line.
