Multiple benefits of Fixteri solutions

The harvesting technology developed by Fixteri Oy offers many benefits to forest and energy industries, harvesting entrepreneurs, and forest owners as well.

Fixteri technology and logistics chain solutions:

• Because of Fixteri bundling, even 40 % higher drain per hectare can be obtained, which considerably increases the profits received from the forest, and the efficiency of felling.
• Fixteri technology enables simultaneous bundling of raw wood materials that are delivered for different uses.
• Fixteri baled wood dries quickly, which significantly increases the energy content of the raw wood material.
• Fixteri baler automatically measures and registers the green weight of each bale already in connection with the bundling process. This way the amount of the harvested growing stock is known immediately after the felling is over.
• Fixteri bundling mechanically removes the needle and leaf mass as nutrient on the ground, and enables the maintenance of a good nutrient in the forest.
• The easy manageability of the bales and their optimal size improve the forest transportation of small-dimensioned wood by up to 200–300 %.
• The optimal size of the bales and easily stackable structure enable storage at a road-side landing in 50 % smaller space compared to storing loose cuts.
• Long-haul transportation of bales is cheaper than transporting energy raw material chipped at a road-side landing.
• No new special transportation equipment is required for the long-haul transportation of bales, but transportation can be done as traditional log, railway, and barge transportation.
• Because of bundling, the wood material can be crushed for the first time only in the place of use, or in a terminal. In centralized high-volume on-site crushing, over 80 % cost savings can be achieved, and terminal crushing is also considerable cheaper than chipping at a road-side landing.
• Crushing on site of use or in a terminal helps avoid littering the environment and noise impact problems.
• Crushing on site of use or in a terminal helps avoid a raw wood material storage loss of 5-10 %.