Biomass

This was revealed in a report by Navi­gant Research, which predicts that it will reach an annual turnover of 11.5 billion dollars in 2020, and the general demand will increase by 9%.

Therefore, the use of biomass and waste from agriculture and forestry to produce energy from renewable resources is one of the most impor­tant challenges for promoting eco-sustainability in the world we live in. Today, biomass processing re­presents 15% of primary energy use in the world (developing countries obtain 38% of their energy needs from biomass).

Focusing on the values of environ­mental sustainability, for many years La Meccanica has been cre­ating and testing a range of state-of-the-art machinery and systems to process biomass and waste from agriculture, forestry and industry.

The machines and processing solu­tions La Meccanica offers have been specifically designed and made ac­cording to the types of biomass to be processed:

Biomass from forests: waste from wood processing, pruning, and de­dicated forest residues. Biomass from agriculture, or “Agro Biomass”: dedicated energy crops, cereal crop straw and assimilable waste, alfalfa, hay, miscanthus etc.

Biomass from industry; waste from food products, such as olive residues, waste from juice production, etc.

The products we currently make are Pellet Mills, Counterflow and Vertical Coolers, Vibrating Sifters and Ham­mer Mills.

The most active market for La Mec­canica in the biomass sector is cur­rently in the U.S., however, impor­tant contacts are underway with Canada and Brazil.