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.
A supplier of a mixed fruit and nut product in the Middle East required a means of loading 300 kg batches into Bulk Bags with no damage to the product which contains whole walnuts that are particularly fragile.
United Utilities is the UK’s largest listed water company. They own, operate and maintain utility assets, including water, wastewater, electricity and gas. They’re a FTSE 100 company with a turnover of £2 billion and see themselves as stewards of the natural resources in the North West of England, in the UK and across the world.
At the Cowm water treatment plant at their Watergrove Water Treatment Works, at Wardle near Rochdale; United Utilities needed to add Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) to the water drawn from the Cown reservoir to neutralise a naturally occurring material known as Geosmin, which literally translates as ‘earth smell’. It is an organic compound produced by microbes and algae which gives untreated water a harmless yet undesirable earthy taste and aroma.
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.
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.
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.
We have supplied our highest accuracy ever ‘Spirofil’ Bulk Bag Filler to the world’s first industrial scale Nanotube manufacturing facility in Sambreville, Belgium.
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".
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.
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