Customer requirements

When conveying Dry Ice Expanded Tobacco (DIET) the main requirement is to maintain very low levels of product degradation, Tobacco companies also need a reliable and cost effective solution. Belt conveyors with multiple drop points can significantly increase degradation so they are less than ideal.

With the correct conveying system in place, annual cost savings for reduced product degradation can amount to thousands of dollars.

Spiroflow can design a number of different Aero Mechanical Conveyor configurations to suit DIET material.

Customer requirements

Back in 1998, the then Preformas S.L company located close to Madrid, Spain were installing new production lines for the manufacture of brake shoe linings for commercial road vehicles. The heart of their system was, and still is, a large capacity mixer and two heavy duty press machines. The manufacture of friction materials is a specialist science involving physics, chemistry and manufacturing expertise.

Customer requirements

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.

Customer requirements

Theakstons brew a range of quality beers of which their ‘Old Peculier’ is legendary! Although committed to upholding their traditional brewing methods, in a brewery building which is 136 years old: to meet ever increasing demand, Theaksons recognised that operational improvements would have to be made to those areas, such as materials handling, which would have no effect whatsoever on the quality of their beers.

Savings in downtime and material costs plus improved, faster production have been achieved by Colfix at its Dublin bitumen processing plant by replacing a manually-fed rigid screw conveyor with a Spiroflow bulk bag handling system. The new equipment comprises a Spiroflow Type 2 bulk bag discharger and a Type 5 low loading bulk bag discharger, each having a 2m Model 120 flexible screw conveyor which meters product to a 50 litre transition hopper.