Distributors, agents, EPC contractors, owner’s engineer companies and subcontractors sought for innovative fully automated sampler robots for biomass, pulp, concentrate and other solid and granular materials

The Finnish company has developed a fully automated solution, which renews raw material quality controlling at biomass power plants, pulp mills and bio refineries and also at many other industries where annually hundreds of thousands of tons of solid material is handled. The sampler is a unique solution (EPO patent) that takes quality management of solid materials to the next level. The sampler enables fast and reliable sampling directly from each arriving truck load or train wagon before unloading and it works for all crushed materials. At the moment, company is operating in three countries and more than 60 000 trucks and 12 000 train wagons are being sampler with company’s samplers every year. The biggest bottleneck in biomass quality controlling has been sampling. According to many studies, 80% of all falsity is an outcome of an incorrect sampling method and the remaining 20% of falsity is a result of handling samples and measuring them in the wrong way. Within biomass industry falsity in quality controlling is causing errors of approximately 2% in the moisture result, which causes errors of approximately 5% in the biofuel energy content calculation. Also, in many other industries sampling causes problems. The new sampler developed by the company eliminates errors caused by conventional sampling procedures. Also, sampling system provides real-time moisture and volume information of each biomass delivery bringing considerable advantages to the industry. As company’s background is in the biomass industry, the sampling procedure follows closely solid biofuel sampling and solid biofuel sample handling standards ISO 18135 and ISO 14780 and has proven to be considerably more accurate than the manual sampling practices. The company is already on the national and international markets and aiming to grow with the help of distributors, agents, EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractors or owner’s engineer companies (representative of the commissioning company undertaken to protect the owner’s interest in a construction or engineering project) operating in the biomass, pulp, bio-refinery, mining and agrofood sectors within and outside of Europe.The company also needs local subcontractors in different stages of the project including during mechanical and electrical installation and local maintenance. Ideally, the partner is involved in power plant design or in renewing fuel handling systems and is also able to provide maintenance and service work. Based on first-hand experience in working with different energy companies in biomass sampling in Finland as well as on international studies, the company identified a global challenge in the sector and developed an automated solution to improve the procedures for quality control. So far, the company has contacted directly potential clients such as power plants EPS’s and engineering companies, but they are looking for partners for international growth from other industries as well.