Global interest in energy saving technologies is becoming a necessity for all industries that dry their products as the implications of waste are becoming well known.

ACTS technology represents the most highly developed solar drying system for timber products available, and can be used for drying all manner of products including timber, fruit, meat, bricks, ceramics, cereals, crops and a large range of other products on a fully sustainable basis.

High cost solar panels and heat exchange units are avoided by our development of a basically simple technology that uses plastic sheets as absorbers and collectors and also to provide cladding and insulation properties. A combination of low cost structure and zero-minor external energy inputs make this product a huge success story. Recognition of the natural and positive cyclic drying influence of cooling and heating in daily cycles allow us to relieve typical drying stresses so that quality outcomes are superior to alternative common technologies. Aspects of our highly developed and patented cyclic drying control features further enhance heat storage and management so that our technology out-performs all other commercial, fully controlled drying technologies in cost outcome terms.

Massive greenhouse gas emissions from common drying technologies that depend on fossil fuels to provide heating energy may now be avoided. At the same time as saving the environment, our technology saves money by reducing process costs and on most cases drying in the same time as conventional drying technologies.


Timber operations boasting efficiency of using wood “waste products” to produce heat for drying have some substance to their claim. However, they are poor misguided souls who fail to understand that their wood “waste” products for several reasons have higher alternative values as for example fuel to create electrical power for other key processes in the manufacturing chain.

In the short term, our aim is to demonstrate that our relatively portable drying technology can be moved to and from timber or the material source because it requires little infrastructure in the form of boilers or wood waste burners to provide heat. Accordingly, the high road freight costs (mainly diesel fuel energy) and road infrastructure and maintenance costs (mainly diesel energy) costs can be removed at the source.

The crazy, misguided notion of carrying logs that are 50% water and 20% waste for long distances by road, consuming vast amounts of energy and polluting our planet will soon be behind us.

Our heat treat kilns also now offer the world a clean, fully sustainable solar heated method of dealing with control of pathogens and insect pests across country borders. No longer is nasty greenhouse ozone-depleting methyl bromide gas required to remove one element of environmental danger, nor is one danger required to replace another.

Now that we have fully patented our ground-breaking technology and are ready to demonstrate our best practise prescription, the world stands ready to enjoy an ACTS revolution. Think about the number of products you consume that require drying at some stage of the process and you will come to understand a small part of the future potential of this technology.

Further R&D is pending in association with University of Sydney and esteemed Professor Langrish who, apart from ourselves well understands the global significance of cyclic drying, our technology and the roads ahead of our success story. This major research project will further improve our cyclic drying capability and is likely to lead to faster drying outcomes than conventional drying conventions. The esteemed professor himself believes in the global significance of cyclic solar drying and predicts that ACTS stands to be world leader in sustainable solar drying in future.

We have recently met with Chinese officials who are keen to investigate and implement our technology.
In a world that constantly talks about the added cost of saving our planet, we are excited about our potential massive contribution to the environment at the same time as REDUCING MANUFACTURING COST and IMPROVING yield and value outcomes for products we conume and enjoy every day.


Consider the following examples of the sheer scope of our innovation and invention. The examples are based on scientific data on solar intensity for Melbourne and modified flat black panel absorber scientific data.

The solar collectors on a VERY SMALL commercial solarola kiln with capacity of 30 cubic metres of sawn timber, equivalent to the typical flooring volume requirements of 6 houses in each batch produces an average of 930 kw/hrs of solar heat energy per day or 330, 000 kw/hrs per year.

This is equivalent to the average annual electricity consumption of 46 Australian houses. A large commercial solarola kiln produces 4.2 million kw/hrs per year, equivalent to that of the consumption of 610 houses.

Greenhouse CO₂ gas savings on a single large scale commercial solarola kiln unit are around 4,290 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year.

To put this in further perspective, Uruguay’s growth in annual sawn timber production is expected to increase by 2.5 million tonnes of extra wood to meet a small part of mainly Chinese demand in the next few years. This would require a number of our kilns that would have collective solar energy absorption capacity equivalent to 137 million average Australian households. (More in better solar environments than Melbourne) Energy created by our simple solar covers for 100% of Uruguay would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent to 2.7m tonnes of CO₂ if the energy had been produced from a coal fired power station. And Uruguay is only a very small part of the world’s timber industry! Canada produces over 60 million cubic metres of timber products per year.

World energy needs for drying timber is enormous. Energy used for drying a massive range of consumer products is literally enormous.