Orkel high-density baling for containment and conservation
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- Compacting and baling technology for industry and agriculture
- Reduces volume of bulk materials by up to 70%
- Improves forage quality and nutrition by 30%
The transport and storage of bulk materials presents a significant challenge for land management. In landfills, organic waste releases methane and other greenhouse gases into the air as it decomposes. Toxins seep into the groundwater, polluting waterways. Unbound waste may be blown and scattered into cities and oceans, harming humans, land animals and marine life.
For farmers, preserving and storing bulk animal forage presents a different challenge. Cattle feed stored in bunker silos may experience nutrition losses of over 30 per cent due to oxygen degradation. This results in a corresponding need for additional cultivated land.
High-density baling for secure containment and conservation
Orkel’s industrial and agricultural compactors allow more than 20 different bulk materials to be compressed into round bales secured with wrapping film.
In waste management, Orkel’s compactor creates clean, nearly leakage-free bales of landfill waste, limiting pollution and reclaiming valuable space.
In agriculture, Orkel’s compactor creates airtight bales of forage, limiting nutrition losses to just 1-2 per cent in up to 36 months and increasing the quantity and quality of milk and meat produced.
Concrete benefits
Orkel’s baling technology compacts bulk materials into closed, odourless, single-unit packages, reducing total volume by up to 70 per cent. This saves storage space and enables cost-efficient transport.
For forage, the bales ensure consistent material density and improved nutritional quality. The film ensures protection of the material. Bales allow easy market access, including transport across borders when forage is needed due to climate change impacts such as extreme heat or drought.
For landfill waste, the bales prevent nearly all leakage of liquids and reduce exposure of methane gas.
Orkel’s baling technology also enables cost-efficient transport of reclaimable materials from rivers and oceans to recycling stations, and non-recyclable materials to incinerators to produce heat or electricity.
Orkel’s round bales are stackable and easy to handle and transport by land and sea.
Market potential
Orkel’s baling and compaction technology is suitable for a number of applications in agriculture, industry and waste management. The company has experienced an annual increase in sales of 20 to 30 per cent in both the agriculture segment and the waste segment, with rapid expansion in Asia in the latter.
Founded in 1949, Orkel is a market leader in developing new farm and industrial machinery and one of the world’s leading developers of round bale compaction technology. The company has customers in more than 60 countries.
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
2. Zero hunger
Orkel’s compactors promote optimal forage production, thereby freeing up farmland and helping to achieve food security.
6. Clean water and sanitation
Orkel’s compactors help to prevent leakage of liquids from landfills that can contaminate the water supply.
12. Responsible consumption and production
Orkel’s compactors promote efficient resource use in food production and help to reduce methane emissions from landfills.
14. Life below water
Orkel’s compactors help to prevent landfill waste from polluting the marine environment.
15. Life on land
Baling cattle forage with Orkel’s compactors prevents nearly all nutrition loss; therefore less acreage is required to achieve the same forage yield, helping to prevent degradation from cropland expansion. Baling landfill waste helps to prevent spread of waste on land and seepage into soil.
Miriam Gjønnes Karterud
Marketing Consultant
