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Fink Machine to Supply Biomass Boiler to District of Saanich

July 18, 2022 No Comments

Fink Machine has been selected to supply two 390 kW Vitoflex 300-UF biomass boilers to the District of Saanich for Saanich Commonwealth Place to help lower their GHG emissions. The municipality says the biomass boilers will replace the rec centre’s current natural gas boilers and will reduce the facility’s greenhouse gas emissions by 90 per cent. The biomass boilers at SCP will use wood fibre byproducts that are created in local milling operations.

“This major project is another important and positive step in our journey to reduce our corporate carbon footprint and meet our goal of becoming a 100 per cent renewable community,” said Saanich Mayor Fred Haynes. “The new heating system will use a locally sourced renewable biomass fuel which will reduce costs, increase efficiency and support our local economy and climate goals,” he said.

More information on this project is available here.

Fink Machine to Build Sicamous District Heating System

April 25, 2022 No Comments

The District of Sicamous’ mayor, councillors, staff and guests marked Earth Day by breaking ground for a new community bio-heat facility. The ceremonial shovel broke ground at the April 22 event, district town manager and ceremony MC Evan Parliament broke the ice, providing background on the $1.74 million project and how it was decided it would be built in the industrial park on district-owned property at 510 Thomsen Place. Fink Machine will be acting as the general contractor responsible for the supply of the Viessmann Biomass boiler as well as the the energy center and hot water distribution network.

For more information check out this link.

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Sicamous Biomass Heating System with (L-R) Splatsín Kukpi7 (Chief) Doug Thomas, North Okanagan-Shuswap MP Mel Arnold and Burkhard Fink of Fink Machine Inc.

Best Wishes to Grahame Go

March 23, 2022 No Comments

After working for Fink Machine for more than 10 years Grahame Go has decided to make a change. Effective March 1st Grahame will be leaving his sales role to take a management position with the Splatsin Development Corp. We wish Grahame all the best in his new job and would like to thank him for his years of dedicated service. Please contact David Dubois, Manager of Business Development, at david@finkmachine.com or 250-457-7319 should you require assistance.

New Biomass District Heating System in Yellowknife

February 25, 2022 No Comments

J&R Mechanical in Yellowknife there new 390 kW biomass district heating system that is expected to be online by the end of February 2021. Initially the system connects to 4 buildings, including 3 privately owned ones and the NWT government central warehouse. The system is expected to displace about 60,000 litres of oil or about 90% of the current usage. The biomass district heating system will be fueled using wood pellets but they are also exploring the potential to use locally sourced and produced wood chips. The Viessmann Vitoflex 300-UF boiler was assembled as a prefabricated boiler house including boiler, equipment and controls by Fink Machine Inc. in Enderby, BC. The completed boiler plant was shipped to site. Checkout the full article at Cabinradio.ca. For more information on the Viessmann Vitoflex 300-UF boiler and other boiler Fink Machine sells check out our full line of boilers

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