2018 International Forest Industries December 2017 January 2018 | Page 36

O
ne of the marvels of the
forestry sector for us
has been the success of
suppliers in the delivery of more
efficient and emission-compliant
chippers and mulchers that have
continued to keep pace with the
demands of the industry for greater
power and capacity.
After all, the two concerns do
not go hand-in-hand and we had
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quietly wondered for several years
whether contractors and other
equipment users would have to
accept at least a period of treading
water as engine manufacturers
adjusted to the new normal before
progress on throughput volumes
could be continued.
We needn’t have concerned
ourselves, as this year’s biomass
technology review shows. Here,