What once required hours of manual sampling, dirty probes, and subjective readings can now be done in less than two minutes—without anyone even leaving the cab of the truck.
At the gate of a modern mill, trucks no longer line up for manual inspection. Instead, each vehicle slowly drives beneath a sleek Industrial Moisture Gate (IMG) frame. As it passes, microwave sensors beam lowenergy waves through the entire load— waste paper bales, wood logs or straw bales—penetrating deep inside the material where handheld probes could never reach. At the same time, LIDAR scanners capture the exact 3D shape of the cargo to determine its volume and ensure every reading is spatially trusted.
Within two minutes, the system has completed millions of microreadings across the load. The results appear instantly in the mill’s ERP or SAP system—clean, digital, traceable, and archived automatically. No samples, no waiting, no debate.
Contrast this with the traditional process:
operators climbing on dusty trucks, plunging metal probes into random bales, writing down inconsistent results, or tearing bales apart for lab tests that take hours. Those manual readings only touch the surface. IMG does that—and adds everything beneath it.
The technology essentially combines what handheld moisture meters see on the surface plus everything that only destructive testing could reveal inside. It delivers the data you’d get if you performed hundreds of manual samples—but it does it in 2 minutes, without human error.
For wood log measurement (IMGW), the system also provides a second crucial parameter: basic wood density, derived from volumetric and moisture data correlation. This gives mills deeper insight into material quality and yield optimization.
In short:
- Fully automated drivethrough measurement.
- Complete volume scan via LIDAR.
- 3D microwave penetration into cellulosebased materials.
- Integrated data transfer to mill software.
- Density calculation for logs.
With over 60 IMG systems installed worldwide—from China through Europe to South Africa—Dunakontroll has proven that industrial moisture control can be both elegant and exact. This is measurement engineered for 2025 realities, not 1985 routines.
The Industrial Moisture Gate turns a messy, manual task into a precise, digitalized operation. Step into the future; let the data flow while the truck keeps rolling.