Laidig excels in innovative, effective designs to store and reclaim biomass materials with special handling requirements.

Biomass materials and fuels can be difficult to store and handle with a variety of challenges that include: ability to flow, particle size, particle types, and moisture content. Our equipment can be designed for applications like wood chips, wood pellets, wood shavings, wood flake, hogged wood and bark, sawdust, green sawdust, wood flour, wood waste, and many more. 

Laidig biomass reclaim systems are designed for both loadout (wood for process) and biomass boiler/kiln/dryer feed (wood for energy) applications. The equipment has proven capable of handling an array of industrial scenarios, including unloading both dry and wet biomass.

Laidig reclaim systems provide solutions to silo bridging and clogging problems that occur with rugged, fibrous or hard-to-handle materials associated with biomass applications. Laidig reclaim systems help create mass flow, enabling near-total clean out while maintaining a first-in-first-out (FIFO) inventory control.

Our uniquely designed reclaim augers rotate 360 degrees around the bottom of a silo or dome to provide consistent, first-in-first-out (FIFO) unloading. Laidig reclaim augers are also equipped with specially designed knives securely bolted to the auger flighting to help mitigate wear on the flighting, and to cut through and move the material to the center of the silo floor, and onto the next step in the material handling process. The use of knives are unique to biomass applications, and are an important design feature of Laidig biomass reclaim systems.

Laidig reclaim systems can be installed into new flat and cone-bottom structures or retrofitted into existing storage vessels, supplying a wide range of storage and output capacities.