Densifier
The Densifier™ maximizes the space utilization of the storage compartments of ocean vessels, barges, railcars, and trucks to enhance transportation efficiencies. This is an ongoing problem for lightweight, “cubic” cargos such as woodchips.
Under conventional loading methods, woodchips are loaded in storage compartments in a forced product stream causing the uneven disbursement of the woodchips. As a result of these inherent inefficiencies, fewer woodchips are loaded volumetrically, increasing the overall operating costs of storage and transportation. The Densifier™ revolutionizes the loading of woodchips by eliminating unnecessary air space that occurs in conventional loading operations. As the woodchips are processed through the Densifier™ woodchip distribution device, the chips are uniformly dispersed in an outward direction in a pattern of concentric circles.
Using the Densifier™ in loading operations causes woodchips to lie flat on top of one another as they enter a confined storage compartment, resulting in greater density and maximum compaction. Therefore, space utilization is optimized in the storage compartment.