Long traditions, superior expertise

– 30 years' experience in bioenergy products and 70 years' experience in manufacturing heavy machinery

Saalasti's customers use our machines to convert the following types of forest residues to better fuel:

• Slash
• Thinning wood
• Stumps
• Tree bark
• Mill wastes

We supply both individual machines and entire processing stations, with our after-sales services ranging from equipment inspection to contractual maintenance.

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Saalasti Chipper H
(Horizontal feed)

Saalasti Chipper is a high capacity chipper with reliable operations and uniform and precise particle size.


Suitable for:
• Power plants
• Biomass terminals
• Other high-volume applications

Raw material:
• Stemwood
• Baled or loose forest residues
• Sliced stumps
• Waste wood and woody construction waste

Saalasti Crush H
(Horizontal feed)

Stumps and loose forest residues cannot be effectively fed into a regular chipper. Saalasti Crush Horizontal is designed for crushing difficult materials.

Suitable for:
• Power plants
• Biomass terminals
• Other high-volume applications

Raw material:
• Stumps and loose forest residues
• Any other tree-derived raw material

Saalasti PreCrush H
(Horizontal feed)

Up to 15 % of the weight of stumps can be sand. This is why some power plants require a Saalasti PreCrush sand control system in order to use stumps as raw material.

Suitable for:
• Power plants
• Biomass terminals
• Other high-volume applications

Raw material:
• Stumps and other materials containing sand

Saalasti Feeder H
(Horizontal feed)

The feeding unit of the crushers and chippers compresses the biomass and then forwards it to be processed by the rotor.

Suitable for:
• Power plants
• Biomass terminals
• Other high-volume applications

Raw material:
• All tree-derived raw material

Saalasti Cutter V
(Vertical feed)

A high capacity vertical feed cutter, which reduces material to suitable particle size.

Suitable for:
• Large wood rooms

Raw material:
• Demanding bark types
• Eucalyptus
• Acasia
• Wood waste
• Screening reject

Saalasti Crush V
(Vertical feed)

The base model crusher, which reduces material to suitable particle size. Industry standard in many countries.

Suitable for:
• Wood rooms
• Saw mills

Raw material:
• Bark
• Wood waste
• Screening reject

Saalasti Press S/M/L
(Capacity)

Dewaters bark and other wet wood waste to energy efficient boiler fuel.

Suitable for:
• Pulp mill wood rooms
• Fuel processing facilities at power plants

Raw materials:
• Shredded bark
• Sawdust
• Waste chips
• Small amounts of primary sludge from industrial processes

Saalasti Grinder V
(Vertical feed)

A special crusher that reduces preprocessed materials down to e.g. P12 particle size.

Suitable for:
• Co-firing for pulverized coal boilers
• Raw material for pellets, pyrolysis and gasification processes

Raw materials:
• Chipped forest residues
• Pre-crushed biomass
• Screening reject
• Sawmill waste
• Oversize chips
• Chip lumps

Saalasti Grinder A
(Axial feed)

A crusher designed to mill materials to very small particle sizes.

Suitable for:
• Power plants
• Co-firing for pulverized coal boilers
• Raw material for pellets, pyrolysis and gasification processes

Raw material (P100mm or smaller):
• Chipped forest residues
• Pre-crushed biomass
• Screening reject

Saalasti Screens and other equipment

Saalasti supplies auxiliary equipment, such as screens, for Saalasti biomass processing systems. With our auxiliary equipment the main machines can be even more productive.

Saalasti Screens:
• Disc screens
• Step screens
• Vibrating screens


Saalasti Feeder
• Feeder iscapable of withstanding the load of big logs being dropped onto it.

Support & Service

• Machines’ service life measured in decades
• Technical support
• Spare parts
• Co-operative maintenance services
• Contractual full maintenance

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