What can we do with wood chips?

Many companies often choose to expand their production by purchasing chippers, chip screeners and chip packers in order to produce the best and most diverse wood chip products possible. In this article, you will learn what we can do with wood chips, what are the most valuable wood chip products you can sell, and what equipment is needed to produce them.

Wood chipping process

For some, it is just ordinary wood waste, leftover from sawing wood, while for others, it is a valuable product obtained by shredding special trees, both barked and unbarked, branches, stumps, roots and more.

The process of making wood chips is called chipping. Any type of wood and its parts can be chipped, but in order to sell it successfully, it is necessary to consider the requirements of the relevant market and buyers. There are several types of chips, such as wood chips (from processed and also untreated wood residues and trimmings), forest wood chips (from forest areas), sawdust chips (from sawing wood) and coarse logging chips.

Use of wood chips and products

Wood chips are mainly used as a solid fuel and as a raw material in the wood pulp production process. Wood chips can be divided into different quality categories depending on their uniformity, ash content and the absence of impurities and debris, ranging from paper chips, fiber chips, whole wood chips and urban wood fuel. However, chemical pulp manufacturers require that the chips are clean, free of bark, in relatively uniform pieces and with as little damaged wood fibers as possible.

The most common use of wood chips is as a horticultural mulch for landscaping. However, it can also be recycled into playground surfacing, which is very effective at cushioning falls and protecting children. It is also used in bioreactors for denitrification, in restoration ecology, and as a substrate for mushroom cultivation and even in smoking meat to enhance flavor.

Woodworking machines for making wood chips

To produce wood chips, you need a chipper – one that is powerful enough and meets your requirements. Chippers fall into several categories:

• Wood chipper with screw or high torque (safe and easy to use);
• Cylinder chipper (large and uneven chips, energy efficient);
• Wood chipper with disc (constant shape and size chips).

No one wants to buy expensive wood chips that contain other unnecessary wood parts, such as sawdust. To sort the wood chips, you will need to purchase a screening system that will separate the wood chips from the sawdust and excess pieces.

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