New Holland Agriculture, SUNY to partner on biomass delivery improvement project
In Pennsylvania, New Holland Agriculture announced plans to assist SUNY researchers in a $3.5 million research project aiming to reduce the cost of delivering biomass for refinement, New Holland Agriculture will provide SUNY with an FR9080 self-propelled forage harvester with 130FB coppice header for use in the DOE research project. The forage harvester and header are used to harvest willow and other short rotation woody crops for biomass applications.
The relationship between New Holland and SUNY dates back to 2004, when a team of company engineers and product development specialists, headed by John Posselius, Director of Innovations for CNH Industrial, set out to assist Dr. Volk with a research project to optimize the logistics of transporting biomass material. After unsuccessful attempts at modifying existing headers failed to improve logistic efficiencies, Posselius pushed his team to create an original design to efficiently and effectively chop woody biomass such as fast growing willows.
Following the research and development phase, Posselius and his team passed the project to a design team headquartered in Belgium to finalize the design of the new header. The New Holland 130FB coppice header is the culmination of the efforts of Posselius, his team of Innovation Engineers, and the Belgium design team.
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