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Livetech Suoja®
A Finnish innovation

Livetech Oy has developed a new environmentally friendly method to protect chip and peat clamps from moisture and freezing using a sprayable bioproduct.

Livetech Suoja®
A Finnish innovation

Livetech Oy has developed a new environmentally friendly method to protect chip and peat clamps from moisture and freezing using a sprayable bioproduct.

Livetech Suoja®
replaces plastic

Plastic film can be costly and harmful. Plastic film is slow and difficult to use. Moreover, it has to be removed and disposed of appropriately.

Water, pulp fibre
and binding agent

Suoja® is an almost 100% biological product that burns with chips and peat safely and cleanly in a storage water heater.

 
 

Livetech Suoja®
A Finnish innovation

Livetech Oy has developed a new environmentally friendly method to protect chip and peat clamps from moisture and freezing using a sprayable bioproduct.

Ecological method for protecting chip and peat clamps

Livetech Suoja® is a completely new method for protecting biofuel clamps from rain and meltwaters without the use of plastic. Chips and peat are used as fuel in heating plants. Livetech Suoja® makes sure that dry and high-quality fuel for heating plants is available during the winter when heating is needed the most.

The product is a mixture of water, pulp fibre and a binding agent. Suoja® is sprayed over a clamp from a tank truck or tank trailer so that is forms a 0.5–2.0-centimetre layer.

Suoja® forms a waterproof but breathable layer over the clamp which allows the stored product to dry during storage.

Benefits

  • 99% natural protection
  • Proven to be safe for the environment, people and storage water heaters
  • Replaces plastic and provides efficient protection
  • Does not have to be removed: the product burns cleanly and safely together with biomass
  • Chips and peat stay dry, and there is no waste
  • Overall cost competitive with plastic
  • Breathable material, clamp surface does not get wet or freeze
  • Chips can be stored throughout the spring and summer months, thus raising the utilisation rate of your equipment
  • Replacing plastic with a bioproduct is an ecologically sound choice that can also be used in branding

Towards a plastic-free tomorrow

Plastic film is harmful for the environment and difficult to install and remove. In outdoor conditions and when removed, plastic film tends to tear and break the clamps and spread around the environment. Plastic is made of imported material, and its disposal is costly.

Furthermore, water becomes condensed under the plastic, wetting the stored chips or peat. This causes freezing and waste and weakens the burning quality of the product. In order to fix the plastic film over the clamps, you have to pile material over it which again produces waste.

Finnish expertise

Livetech Suoja® was invented in Vieremä, Finland, in 2009 by inventor, founder of Livetech Oy and seasoned entrepreneur, Pertti Rytkönen. He is a mechanical engineer and equipment and method development expert.

Other operators involved in the development work include Turveruukki Oy, Kuopion Energia, ELY Centre for North Savo, Kuopio Innovation Oy, the Finnish Forest Centre, University of Oulu, University of Eastern Finland and municipality of Vieremä.

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