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Bruks Siwertell Group company, Bruks Siwertell AB, based in Bjuv, Sweden, has completed the installation of a solar panel system on the facility’s roof. The 758 panels are estimated to generate approximately 400,000 kWh annually, offsetting more than a third of the site’s total energy consumption.

Did you know that at Bruks Siwertell Group’s Atlanta-based business unit, Bruks Siwertell Inc, every customer is assigned a dedicated key account manager to ensure consistent communication and personalized support? This approach pairs each customer with a direct point of contact and embodies the company’s commitment to customer excellence.

The role of woodyards is reaching a critical juncture. For a papermill, raw material is the biggest cost, and this is beginning to increase. Power plants have discovered co-firing as an effective way to offset their use of coal, with some switching to biomass entirely. Meanwhile, there is increasing demand for biomass-derived fuels throughout the transport sector; all competing for feedstocks of sustainably sourced processed wood and wood waste.

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An ambitious eighteen-month-long rebuilding and modernization project at Bruks Siwertell Group company, Bruks AB, based in Arbrå, Sweden, is set to reap both social and environmental benefits. The buildings are not only more energy efficient; they also provide an inviting, healthy and happy workplace environment.

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Bruks Siwertell Group’s USA-based Atlanta business unit, has partnered with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to help maintain one of the region’s most important conservation areas, Sprewell Bluff Park. The first event saw Group volunteers remove around 400kg of litter and debris from the verges of the park’s access roads, restoring its beauty and protecting the environment.

Few technologies have done as much as Siwertell ship unloaders to transform the dry bulk handling landscape. This is not just in terms of environmental capabilities, such as eliminating spillage and minimizing dust emissions, but extends to setting market-leading through-ship efficiencies, which have revolutionized jetty utilization rates, vessel turnarounds and the profitability of port terminals.

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Bruks Siwertell Group has rolled-out a comprehensive diversity and inclusion workshop for its leadership teams. It is designed to challenge existing perspectives and provide practical tools to address biases, discrimination and foster workplace inclusivity. The training has been implemented at a Group-wide level, ensuring that all managers can support positive change within their local teams.

Bruks Siwertell has recently undertaken a series of customer-focused visits to several port facilities in the Philippines, strengthening the company’s customer support commitment, and further cultivating its local installation and service capabilities. In collaboration with a new local service partner, Portmizer, Bruks Siwertell’s Örjan Westerberg and Graham Christie visited several port terminal installations, which have had Siwertell screw-type ship unloaders serving them since as early as 1997, and as recently as 2022.

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By instigating a number of relatively small changes and actions, Bruks Siwertell’s Bjuv-based business unit in Sweden is set to achieve an annual saving of 36 MWh in electricity and 60 MWh in heating; equivalent to around 67.1 metric tons of carbon emissions.

The road-mobile units offer the company a unique combination of asset agility and market-leading through-ship efficiency, and are capable of deploying within an hour of arriving at the quayside. They move between the ports of Suwaiq, Sultan Qaboos, and Sur in Oman, directly discharging cement to bulk trucks