Fatigue testing of drill rig boom

Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy and Elomatic Ltd together designed a fatigue-testing device for a drill rig boom.

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Modern flue gas scrubbers – significant improvements in the profitability of bioenergy heating plants

There are many reasons why flue gas scrubber technology should be used. One of the most important is the financial benefits it brings. An immeasurable amount of fully utilisable thermal energy vanishes into the sky through the chimneys of heating plants every day. A modern flue gas scrubber can recover any lost heat and offers effective particle filtration for heating companies.

Changes in the district heating market in Europe place many heating plant companies in a challenging position. There are several diverse reasons for these changes. Competition over heating customers has become significantly fiercer over the past ten years as competing forms of heating have become more popular. The fuel strategies for district heating production in different countries are tied to changes in energy reserves and production in the EU and to the entire global economy.

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Still Going Strong Heikki Pirilä – 30 years in starch processing

Making it in the starch processing business requires a keen eye for raw material quality and the ability to get the most out of your raw materials. A general rule of thumb is: the more refined the product, the more valuable it becomes. The investment payback time on a starch processing plant investment is rather long, so patience and a big wallet come in handy. The strong and growing demand for especially modified starches and valuable by-products is nevertheless enough to keep long-term investors keen. The reason is that starch and starch by-products are omnipresent; they are everywhere you look, that is as long as you know what you are looking at.

Heikki Pirilä has an eye for starch and starch by-products. He has been in the starch processing business for the better part of three decades, so there is not much that surprises him anymore. He started in the business as a design engineer back in 1984 and has been involved in all project phases of starch processing from design, project management, supervision and procurement to maintenance.

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Gaining a competitive advantage – Testing products in simulated environments : case Wärtsilä

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