Landia Pumps for Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas COVID-19 Silver Lining

Landia’s Thorkild Maagaard – ensuring global reach with online meetings

The manufacturer Landia Pumps which produces high-quality pumps for Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Plant use, and all slurry and solid/ liquid mixture pumping and mixing applications, has discovered a COVID-19 silver lining. 

As so far there have been precious few of those we decided to post that fact here, as in the following Press Release:

Press Release: 9 May 2020:

Three Continents on the Same Day

Landia keep pumping with Online Meetings

With global business travel looking so uncertain for the foreseeable future, a leading pump and mixer manufacturer says it is seeing considerable time and cost-savings with online meetings.

Landia, which is celebrating the 70th year of its inventing the chopper pump reports that it has been pleasantly surprised by the efficiency of online meetings and the number of positive outcomes.

Thorkild Maagaard, Landia’s Export Sales Director, commented:

“All of us want to get back to interacting with people, but in the meantime, we have no choice. For example, during the lockdown - via our Indian customer KIS Group, we have won a significant order to supply a digester mixing system for a municipal solid waste project in Nepal”.

He added: 

“Importantly, on-site commissioning will be online, so without all the usual costs and time, including long-haul flights, this is very much in keeping with an industry that wants to protect resources for a better and cleaner world”.

Maagaard also pointed to recent successful online presentations between Landia in Denmark and potential customers in Brazil, which prior to the Coronavirus lockdown would have meant a week away from the office.

“Now we can have meetings on three continents on the same day for a mere fraction of the cost”,

he continued.

“Of course, we can’t achieve everything online, but even though we are a solutions provider who doesn’t just sell pumps off the shelf, we are certainly seeing a new way of working. Realistically, it is going to take a very long time for travel and traditional meetings to be possible without numerous obstacles to overcome – yet even when that does

happen, online meetings can continue to provide a very cost-effective and efficient alternative – more than ever before”.

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Landia Chopper Pumps Improve Biogas Yields at UK Anaerobic Digestion Plant

Landia Chopper Pump installed at the feed to the AD Plant

Pumps made by Landia are playing a vital role in the success of a new 20kW anaerobic digestion plant at a 1,100 acre mixed farm in Hampshire.

Designed to provide all the benefits of large scale AD, but simplified so as to be achievable on a farm scale, the £100,000 plant includes both long-shaft and dry-mounted Landia pumps, which handle slurry from the dairy and leftover fruit and vegetable waste from the arable side of the farm.

It is true to say that even the notoriously difficult to handle AD feedstock punishment at installations of this type, hasn’t halted Landia pumps on the farm.

“We’ve done our level best to punish these Landia pumps with the thickest and most difficult materials we could thrown at them”;

said farm owner and Bioplex Technologies’ Director Chris Reynell,

“but they just keep on working, even though there are no excess liquids because we’re very much a solids-in, solids-out operation”.

He added:

“Landia had to meet our criteria for rugged and reliable equipment that could cope with heavy material such as silage, garden waste and horse manure, as well as slurry.  We’ve had no problems whatsoever.  The Landia pumps have accelerated the hydrolysis of the AD plant and help produce very healthy bacteria.  We have gained a significant upturn in biogas and benefitted from a superior compostable end-product, as well as enhanced fertilizer values.  It’s a great piece of kit”.

Chopper Pump Detail

Reynell also explained that the outlay included a new reception tank and a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generator that provides electricity for his farmhouse. With the savings made from not having to buy artificial fertiliser and reduced fuel costs for the generator, he estimates a payback period of 5 years.

The pumps installed at this site are Long Shaft Chopper Pumps:  MPG 4” 7.5kw complete with cutting knives.



About Landia




‘Landia is a family-owned company that was founded in 1933 in Denmark.  In 1950 the company invented the first efficient electric pump with rotating knives, which is the main principle behind today’s modern chopper pump (as it is now called), which is used all over the world. 

Over 75% of Landia’s business is export, with its pumps, mixers and process units in successful use across numerous industries, including sewage treatment plants, biogas, agriculture, fish, food and brewing.  Landia prides itself on high quality products and a back-up service to its customers to match’.

Find more "Chopper Pump" information at the chopper pumps page at www.Landia.co.uk .