Gough’s pet project
Gough Engineering has completed a waste sawdust separation plant at Pets at Home. The UK’s largest pet shop has over 260 stores nationwide and has up to 25 tonnes of sawdust and hay a week returned from its retail outlets to its National Distribution Centre in Stoke-on- Trent. The animal bedding, contaminated with animal droppings, paper, cardboard, plastic cups, animal toys and other undesirable items, enters the facility via pallet sized containers to be recycled. Landfill charges for this kind of waste can be in excess of £50 per 100 kg, therefore Pets at Home needed a solution. The design and layout of the plant was developed following trials and demonstrations at Gough’s Stoke on Trent facility concluded by a team of engineers from Pets at Home, Nicholls Air Systems and Gough Engineering.
The outcome was a vibratory feeder, screening and conveying process followed by a vacuumed air separation hood. The waste enters a Gough receiving hopper to accommodate two bags of 10m3
, it is then fed into two Spiroflow’s joint venture
Spiroflow-Horizon Systems is a new joint venture company formed by Spiroflow and its partner Horizon Systems Inc of Lawrence, Kansas, USA to market Horizon’s expertise in designing process systems for handling dry bulk materials throughout Europe.
Through a broad range of product offerings, Spiroflow-Horizon Systems will offer the full range of lean phase
pneumatic conveying (pressure and vacuum), as well as continuous dense phase technology (pressure and vacuum) for handling delicate, friable, formed or extruded products such as snack foods, pet foods, agricultural seeds and plastics pellets, with little or no damage. Its test centre has been installed within the Spiroflow Technology Centre at Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK.
heavy duty linear vibratory feeders that convey the contaminated wood chips at a rate of 1300 kgs per hour. The waste is screened along the feeders and the heavy undesirable items fall into a collection bin to be disposed of, whilst the lighter recyclable hay and sawdust is sucked and blown by the ‘Air Knife’ separation vacuum, as supplied by Nicholls Air Systems, into a 14 metre sealed road wagon to be sent off for recycling. The result of the scheme has saved the company tens of thousands of pounds in waste collection costs and consequently Pets at Home received a nomination for the Top Recycling Awards 2010 for doubling its recycling rate to over 70%.
In brief
Benefit from SHAPA’s knowledge This year’s event, at the conveniently central Imago Holywell Park Conference Centre at Loughborough University on Tuesday 5th October, will be unmissable. Building on the success of last year’s Conference it will provide concise information from industry professionals on technical, commercial and legal aspects of solids and bulk powder handling, with handy reference notes to take away – all in one day.
The Solids Handling and Processing Association (SHAPA) is once again calling upon the depth of knowledge within the membership and its contacts to bring you up to date in one well structured and enjoyable day. For full details check out the agenda on the SHAPA website at
www.shapa.co.uk
Strategic partners’ solution Factory profitability expert Marco is working on a second major project in Thailand with strategic partners Matcon. The Marco Trac- IT Profitability System is part of a major turnkey materials handling solution being installed for an international manufacturer of additives for the food industry. Marco Trac-IT will bring important productivity controls, stock management and production benefits to the manufacturing process. This joint project further strengthens the working relationship between the two companies. The Marco Factory Floor Solution is the perfect complement for Matcon’s extensive experience in providing solutions for handling powders, granules, tablets and other materials in IBCs.
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