Inventair heat for Express Timber

Paisley-based Express Timber Products has installed an Inventair Clean Air Systems (CAS600) warm air heater system in their 12,000 square feet factory. The system was ordered from Scotland’s premier machinery supplier Deral. The CAS 600 warm air heater produces a hea output of 600,000 BTU (175kW) and is capable of burning up t 45 kg/hour of hard or softwoods.

Express Timber Products (ETP) was formed in 1992 with the aim of producing machined sections of hardwoods and softwoods for the joinery and construction trades. The factory is equipped with high tech throughfeed moulders, cross-cut saws and all the associated equipment required to produce square dressed, rebated and moulded sections. These sections include facing, skirting, dado rails, cornices, panel moulds, glazing beads and much more.

The manufacturing process at ETP naturally produces a significant volume of off-cuts which are classified as waste. Until now ETP had been disposing of this waste in skips and subsequently in landfill – a costly process.

ETP investigated a grant from The Carbon Trust which involved – among other things – disposing of the off-cuts in an environmentally controlled way which involved some element of re-cycling. The solution was provided by Deral who are Scottish agents for Inventair by providing a wood burning system to provide clean heat for the factory.

The Inventair system is working perfectly at ETP. “Not only does it provide an excellent heat source but it has saved the cost of waste disposal and the gas-fuelled heating alternative” explains ETP Managing Director Eric Ainsworth. ETP estimate a payback of less than 4 years on the investment for a piece of equipment which is essentially maintenance-free and will offer many years of reliable service.