Latest news - SP signs major order to Brazil

SP have signed it's largest single order ever. The order is for 30 units of the harvester head model SP 591 LX G2 which is especially designed and developed for harvesting and debarking of plantation grown eucalyptus. SP 591 LX G2 is a further development of its predecessor, the SP 591 LX, and offers a variety of important improvements affecting both the debarking efficiency, productivity as well as its reliability and running costs.

SP received the order through it's Brazilian dealer Tracbel who is one of the largest and most successful heavy equipment dealers in Brazil. Besides SP, Tracbel also represents renowned brands such as for example Volvo CE and Tigercat. The company purchasing the SP 591 LX G2 harvester heads is Suzano Papel e Celulose, one of the largest producers of eucalyptus pulp in the world.

The SP 591 LX G2 harvester heads will be installed on Tigercat H845C base machines. The harvesting units will be used to supply a completely new pulp mill currently being built by Suzano, located in the northern state of Maranhão Brazil, with raw material for the production of pulp for paper. The mill will need a monthly supply of 300 000 m³ of raw material during the first phase in 2013. In 2014 the monthly need will rise up to 500 000 m3. At present around 10 000 workers are busy finalizing the pulp mill which is estimated to be started up at the end of 2013. The mill will have an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons of eucalyptus pulp.

“For SP the order is strategically very important for the future since we by signing this order will have a great opportunity to both establish our brand as well as to reach substantial future sales on the large and very important Brazilian market”, says Anders Gannerud, Export Manager at SP Maskiner.

The SP 591 LX G2 harvester head at work in the Suzano Plantation in Maranhão, Brazil

For more information please contact SP Export Manager, Anders Gannerud by phone +46 73 44 253 41 or e-mail anders.gannerud@spmaskiner.se

[24/04/2013]