Morbark Inc. held its sixth Demo Days event for current and potential customers and members of its authorized industrial dealer network last week. Events included factory tours, networking opportunities, vendor booths, informational seminars and equipment demonstrations for the forestry and recycling markets.
Seminars featured Bill Turley, editor of C&D World; Danny Dructor, president of the American Loggers Council; and Delton Alderman of the USDA Forest Service, speaking on the current trends and opportunities in the construction and demolition, forestry and biomass, and housing markets, respectively.
The equipment demonstrations showcased the new configuration of the 40/36 Whole Tree Drum Chipper, which is designed to produce microchips for use by pellet mills and as supplemental fuel for cogeneration at coal facilities. In addition, the 3200 Wood Hog horizontal grinder, created to fill the gap between Morbark’s 2600 and 3800 Wood Hogs for the recycling market and mulch producers, was demonstrated.
More than 150 people from six countries attended the 2013 Spring Demo Days, the first of two such events for Morbark this year. The next event is scheduled for Oct. 10-11.
Morbark, based in Winn, Mich., builds equipment that creates opportunities in the forestry, recycling, sawmill, bio-energy and tree care markets.
