Just Trays Ltd of Farnley, Leeds (JT) purchased a new casting machine that will enable them to double output of their low profile shower trays. Their previous casting machine included an integral bulk bag unloading hopper. The bag was loaded into place and supported during discharge by an overhead hoist. When difficulty was experienced in discharging calcium carbonate from compacted or otherwise problematic bags, the hoist had to be used to raise and lower the bag to promote flow.

Customer requirements

Keeling & Walker Ltd of Stoke-on-Trent, UK is the world’s largest producer of Tin Oxide. Not only is Tin Oxide a very abrasive material, it is very difficult to handle: it smears, doesn’t flow well and readily bridges. So, back in early 2007, when Operations Manager, Martyn Pedley, came to replace a troublesome bucket elevator, he was concerned to find a conveyor that would be man enough for the job. And, in addition, he wanted to eliminate fugitive emissions to improve the working environment too. The problems with the bucket elevator were caused by the abrasive product getting into the chains and other mechanical parts. As a result, it had become too costly to maintain. Martyn Pedley did some research and concluded that either a Flexible Screw Conveyor or an Aero-Mechanical Conveyor would be possible solutions.

Until the end of 2007, the market value of sulphur had remained depressed at $100 a ton, and for one of the longest periods ever. This made the cost of recovery uneconomic so, it was just stockpiled as a result. However, when the price increased five-fold to $500 a ton at the end of 2007, recovery became a profit opportunity for the owners of an oil refinery in Kenai, on the North Slope of Alaska, USA.

We have supplied our highest accuracy ever ‘Spirofil’ Bulk Bag Filler to the world’s first industrial scale Nanotube manufacturing facility in Sambreville, Belgium.

Dekura - formerly Polypro Ltd, based in Telford, Shropshire, is the UK's leading PVC-U recycler, collecting waste form more than 1,000 window and door fabricators nationwide. They are not only able to recycle waste generated in the fabrication process but also post-consumer waste generated from old early generation PVC-U windows, doors, roofline and rainwater goods.

Soliant, a paint film manufacturer based in Lancaster, South Carolina, USA, needed a better way to weigh and mix 125 Kg drums of acrylic resin. Employees manually pushed 125 Kg drums filled with the powder to a scale for weighing and adding to a mix. Once weighed out, two employees manually scooped around 700 grm of powder at a time from the drums to the mixing vessel, the beginning stage of the Fluorex™ process.

A company located in Baxley, Georgia, USA needed to discharge an explosive powder from Bulk Bags.

Colin Stewart Minchem, soon to change their name to AMCOL Minerals Europe to better reflect their business activities, won a contract that involved the mixing of minerals with chemicals.

Waste Recycling Group (WRG) is one of the leading waste management services companies in the UK. Each year they receive, recycle and dispose of more than 15 million tonnes of household, commercial and industrial waste.

Nynas Bitumen UK, part of the Swedish AB Nynas Petroleum company, unlike other oil companies, is a bitumen specialist.