Heavy Duty Wood Chipper in Thailand

Why the XPJ850×500 Model Was the Right Fit

After discussing production requirements with RICHI's technical team, the customer chose the XPJ850×500 heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand. This unit matches their feedstock size, typical working volumes, and future expansion plans.

Key parameters for the XPJ850×500 heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand:

• Feed Inlet Size: 850×500 mm
• Max Feed Diameter: φ500 mm
• Feeding Motor Power: 4+3 kW
• Main Motor Power: 132 kW
• Hydraulic Pump Power: 1.5 kW
• Discharge Belt Power: 2.2 kW
• Flying Knives: 10
• Fixed Knives: 3

This model heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand is ideal for chipping large branches and low-grade logs — exactly what Thai rubberwood and eucalyptus plantations generate in abundance. The wide feed opening allows workers to feed branches and slab wood without extensive pre-cutting, saving time and labor costs.

Main Raw Materials and the Local Context

In Thailand, the main plantation species for this customer are rubberwood and eucalyptus. Rubber trees are harvested when they stop producing latex, usually after 25–30 years. While the main trunk is milled into lumber for furniture and plywood, the tops, branches, and root sections often go unused.

This business plans to chip:

• 70% rubberwood residues: branches, tops, slab wood, and short logs.
• 30% eucalyptus thinnings: small-diameter trees from their plantation thinning operations.

By blending these feedstocks, the customer can keep the wood chipper running steadily year-round, balancing seasonal peaks. This mix also improves chip quality, as eucalyptus chips are dense and uniform, which is ideal for certain chipboard buyers.

The Role of the heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand

With the XPJ850×500 heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand, the company turns unmarketable branches and offcuts into uniform 20–50 mm chips. These chips are then delivered to a local MDF factory, a nearby biomass power plant, and a few chipboard makers. For some buyers, chip moisture and size uniformity are critical, so the company is now planning to add a simple drying system to ensure chips meet specifications even during Thailand's rainy season.

The drum wood chipper's high throughput — up to 15–20 tons per hour with well-sorted material — means that the company can process all residue on-site within days after felling. This keeps the plantation cleaner, reduces fire hazards, and frees up valuable yard space for storing high-value logs.

Beyond Chips: Future Plans for Biomass Pellets

The customer's long-term vision is to move up the biomass value chain. In Thailand, many wood processors start with a wood chipper and later add a dryer, a hammer mill, and a wood pellet press. By doing so, they transform low-value chips into high-density wood pellets that fetch premium prices in Japan, Korea, and Europe.

While this customer does not plan to add a wood biomass pellet mill immediately, they specifically chose a heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand robust enough to supply future pelletizing operations. Clean, uniform chips are the first step toward quality wood pellets, so choosing the right chipper is crucial.

Flexibility: Other Products This Wood Chipper Can Make Possible

Though the primary goal is to produce clean chips for MDF and biomass plants, the XPJ850×500 heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand can also support other products. For example, if market demand shifts, the same chips can be screened and sold as landscape mulch or raw material for animal bedding. In Thailand, rubberwood mulch is increasingly popular for landscaping due to its light color and pest-resistant properties.

In the future, this heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand could even help produce biochar feedstock, as small and medium-sized Thai farmers look for ways to enrich soil and sequester carbon. By having one reliable, high-capacity machine, the company can pivot easily without heavy new investments.

Why RICHI Was the Right Partner

The customer had several options, including buying a used Japanese chipper or a locally made budget model. However, they decided on a new RICHI heavy duty wood chipper for sale in Thailand for four main reasons:

• Proven tropical durability: The heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand are designed for humid, dusty conditions and tough plantation wood like rubber and eucalyptus.
• Energy efficiency: The XPJ850×500's motor setup and knife design ensure high throughput with reasonable energy costs — an important factor when electricity prices rise.
• Local support: RICHI's Thai service partner offers installation, operator training, and local spare parts — a big advantage over second-hand imports.
• Scalability: RICHI's engineers helped plan future expansions, so adding a dryer or wood pellet press later won’t require a full redesign.

Making the Right Call for Thai Agroforestry

Thailand's forestry sector is changing fast. Open burning bans, higher land use efficiency, and new export markets for green energy are creating fresh opportunities for plantation owners and sawmills. This project shows how even a single heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand can be the gateway to cleaner operations and better profits.

Instead of burning waste, this family business now sells clean rubberwood chips to multiple buyers, adds value locally, and keeps operations sustainable — all with one well-chosen machine.

Thinking of Getting Your Own heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand?

If you run a rubberwood plantation, eucalyptus farm, or mixed agroforestry business in Thailand, you're probably sitting on thousands of tons of biomass you're not using. Why let it rot or burn when you could turn it into cash?

Whether you want to start small with a stand-alone chipper or plan a complete biomass pellet production line, RICHI Machinery can help. We supply heavy duty wood chippers, industrial wood shredders, wood pellet mills, hammer mills, dryers, and full turnkey biomass solutions.

Contact RICHI today and discover how the right heavy duty wood chipper in Thailand can turn plantation waste into profit — reliably, sustainably, and with full technical support from people who know tropical wood processing inside out.

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