Case Study

Bulk material handling equipment for recycling plastic window frames and other PVC-U products

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.

Aero Mechanical Conveyor transferring spices from storage to the production area.

Patak's has more than 300 employees at their Leigh, Lancashire, UK factory, and their products are distributed internationally to more than 40 countries. The Leigh factory  was a significant investment in state of the art food processing facilities which, at 164.00 sq ft. is believed to be the largest Indian food factory in the world. The factory's output is impressive: using 2,700 tonnes of spices from around the world, together with other ingredients, they produce over 1 million snacks, over 1.5 million ready meals and 30 million jars of safe a year.

T6 Big Bag Discharger discharging decaffeinated tea into tumble blender containers.

Tetley is Britain's favourite cuppa. Their entire range of teas are blended and packed at their Eaglescliffe, Teeside factory where output is running at 50 million tea bags per week!

Mobile Aero-Mechanical Conveyor for use in an Explosive Environment

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.

Model T2 Bulk Bag Discharger in action at a US Explosives Manufacturer

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

Model T3 Bulk Bag Discharger in action at a Speciality Minerals company

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.

Model T4 Bulk Bag Discharger and Aero-Mechanical Conveyor

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.

Big Bag Discharging and Aero-Mechanical Conveying

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

Pulp and Paper Industry

An increasing amount of powdered material is being handled in the pulp and paper industry because:

Conveying Pharmaceutical Powders from rigid IBCs to tabletting and process machines

In the interests of reducing manual handling and associated costs, pharmaceutical manufacturers have increasingly adopted large containers such as rigid IBCs for the delivery of mixed materials to tabletting lines. These enable obsolete methods such as the use of small containers and hand scoops to be eliminated.

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