Case Study

Chemical Dosing Systems for effluent and water treatment.

Spiroflow has a long history of supplying dosing systems for the treatment of potable water, waste water, effluent and sewerage in both industrial and utility applications.

‘Spiroflow’ Aero-Mechanical Conveyors keep the packing lines busy for world’s largest producer of Tin Oxide.

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.

‘Spirofil’ Bulk Bag Fillers help to recycle over 36,000 tons of sulphur from an oil refinery on Alaska’s North Slope

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.

An Aero-Mechanical Conveyor transferring flavoured Coffee from a mixer to the packaging machine

A reliable means of transferring blends of flavoured coffee from the mixer, in which the flavours are added, direct to the buffer hopper above the machine that packs finished products ready for shipment to customers.

Highest accuracy for the world’s first industrial scale Nanotube manufacturing facility

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

Aero-Mechanical Conveyor transferring sugar from a sack tip hopper to a storage hopper

When, back in June 2005, The Orkney Herring Company Ltd came to choose a conveyor for the upgrade and expansion of their ingredients handling system, Ken Sutherland, their Managing Director confirms, "We saw the Spiroflow advertisement, concluded that an Aero-Mechanical Conveyor was a match for what we wanted".

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.

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