Wood industry
Conveyor chains for board mills, sawmills and biomass — made in Erl since 1988, EU steels, sizing from your plant data.
The wood, particle-board and sawmill sector places demanding requirements on conveyor chains — abrasive shavings, high bulk densities, humid environments and long duty cycles. Since 1988 the SENN Group has engineered and manufactured bush, forged link and round steel chains as well as trough conveyor solutions in Erl, Tyrol, using European case-hardening and quenching-and-tempering steels (including 16MnCr5 and 42CrMo4). Alongside in-house production we complement programmes with common standard ranges and accessories — always with sizing based on your plant data.
Wood-chip and residual-wood discharge often relies on trough conveyors with bush conveyor chains or forged fork-link chains; particle-board lines frequently use Redler chains with replaceable flights. Coarse material, bark or lump wood is often handled more reliably on round steel chains thanks to the open, self-cleaning design. Pellet plants and heating systems combine elevator buckets with a matched chain base; biomass boilers frequently need wet ash extractors for submerged discharge.
This page gives a concise map of which SENN products are typically used in wood processing — with direct links to the detailed conveyor-chain pages and to Holzkurier media coverage.
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Applications and further reading
Chain types and accessories (selection with a wood-industry angle)
- (link: page://hqHVT8g4bmvqDdWM text: Trough conveyor chains) — closed trough systems for wood chips, shavings and residual wood
- (link: page://VbFpneu3eVhA7Dnu text: Redler chains) — shavings handling and discharge in particle-board plants
- (link: page://F1G4lrgiSHxMc1ba text: Forged link / fork-link chains) — forged links for abrasive wood bulk materials
- (link: page://kS4ql3e9AiHFtOad text: Bush conveyor chains) — high tensile forces and long centres in large installations
- (link: page://nFwKxVtsqnN36qQ9 text: Round steel chains) — robust for bark, lump wood and coarse fuel
- (link: page://zV7wgOSZkUtCAHgy text: Elevator buckets) — pellets, chips or bulk in bucket elevators
- (link: page://YCh2cQVjstJHii0B text: Slide bars and manganese rails) — durability under high bulk loads
- (link: page://0k3Lum8FbOhFq8c2 text: Sprockets and guide wheels) — matched to all listed chain bases
- (link: page://ew5025ZqGZYI6P9T text: Roller chains) — drive and conveyor chains for ancillary equipment
- (link: page://OTh1kXWwWi8xmu2u text: Wet ash extractors) — wet ash/slag discharge from biomass boilers
- (link: page://iAiUaTROcKnrtSLg text: Sprocketed roller chains) — precise power transmission in special units
- (link: page://xGnGXEI5euC45gdj text: Steel grades) — documented EU materials and inspection certificates
Wood-sector media
- (link: page://UtskkQ1zv2LJnO90 text: Holzkurier 2025 — feature on conveyor chains from Erl)
- (link: page://PTwV4gLi8nB3dEqg text: Holzkurier 2024 — SENN in the trade magazine)
We are happy to share anonymised reference cases on request (for example a particle-board mill in southern Germany, an 80 m redler in continuous operation since 2014) — contact us with your duty data.
Request engineering support
Contact usShare centre distance, bulk material, temperature and any existing chain drawing — we propose the right chain base and accessories.
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Downloads
Conveyor chains product catalogue
Overview of chain types, accessories and lubricants.
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