The Swedish company Plantma X has sold its first machine. Holmen Skog is the customer. The Plantma X project has been running since 2019 with tests at Statens Skog, Sveaskog, and Holmen Skog. At the moment is the test machine on tour in the United States.

The first Plantma X sold

Plantma X is an old concept in a new suit. The model is the Silva Nova planting machine that was developed during the 70s and 80s. Just as it was supposed to lift, around 1990, the walls fell towards Eastern Europe and thousands of willing, hard-working, cheap manual planting machines came over to the west. Suddenly the need for mechanized planting was gone and the development of planting machines was paused in Sweden.

But eventually the eastern people got better conditions in their original lands. Many of them found out that there was more money to build houses instead of planting forests. So the need for mechanized planting was brought up again and the development continued.

The old suit was taken out of the closet

One of the projects that was started up again was Silva Nova, or now Plantma X. In the autumn of 2019, testing began. The concept is the same as at Silva Nova but with a modern control system and refined details.

The founders, Stig Linderholm and Hans Arvidsson, have been developing forest equipment since the 1980s. Log Max harvester heads and Ecologist forest machines are examples of the many projects they have been involved in, not to mention the latter part of the Silva Nova project.

They are approaching a well-functioning machine and have strong partners. So if nothing extraordinary happens, Plantma X will soon be something to count on.

Find out more at Plantma X’s website.