32 | Focus on Italy Part One: Turboden
TURBODEN TARGETS PANELS SECTOR
Energy is an important topic among wood-based panels producers due to their massive use of energy in the manufacturing process and the need to be more efficient. Stephen Powney speaks to Alessandro Guercio, biomass sales and business development manager of Turboden
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or our Focus on Italy Part One we turn to power technology company Turboden, a pioneer of biomass-fired Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology. The company, which has nearly 100 units in operation within the wood industries and hundreds more in other sectors, chose to exhibit in the panel production hall at Ligna this year for the first time. A veteran of many Ligna exhibitions,
Turboden decided to shift its stand to the panels technology hall as it seeks to build its profile in the sector. It has 10 units in operation within the primary panel manufacturing industry currently.
“The Ligna results have been good, it is
always a very interesting exhibition,” said Alessandro Guercio, biomass sales and business development manager of Turboden. “A lot of our prospects met with us. We were there to spread the knowledge of our solutions.
“In the past our interest was focused on standard applications in the wood industry where the heat was used for the drying process, such as drying lumber. “Since about 2010 we also started to
work in the wood panels sector with Kastamonu Entegre and we sold our first ORC to it in Turkey. We initiated a
collaboration with it and have now delivered five plants.“
Mr Guercio said Turboden has some other references in the panels industry, describing the sector as having interesting potential. Turboden, a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group Company, recently installed two ORC systems (13.6 MWe each) to Kastamonu Entegre.
Kastamonu already had three ORC plants supplied by Turboden, in Gebze and in Balikesir, for a total of five biomass plants and 30 MWe installed. Turboden’s high-efficiency ORC turbines were installed in the factories in Balikesir
Above: Turboden ORC technology WBPI | August/September 2023 |
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