Process Equipment Update
Fig. 1. High resistance to chemical attack enables cost-effective, precise pumping and a long service life.
4 If your pumping application involves aggressive fluids, but at the same time costs have to be cut and production expanded, then peristaltic pumps offer an economical solution. Sean Ottewell reports.
Aggressive fluids meet their match with peristaltic pumps
pump from Watson-Marlow Pumps to help process aggressive wastewater fluids produced by various plating and galvanising processes at its sites. In Eindhoven, eight flexible production
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lines run 24 hours a day, with processes such as electroplating silver, gold, copper and tin, electro- less nickel and synergetic coating, taking centre stage. AHC in Venlo has large, fully-automated lines and focuses primarily on technical and hard
HC Benelux, a specialist in the provision of surface treatment technologies for engineering applications, has installed a series 521F/RC close-coupled peristaltic
anodising, synergetic coatings, electro-less nickel on steel, as well as specific treatments such as chromic acid anodising, chromating and lacquering. AHC’s customers come from a range of sectors: everything from automotive, electronics and aerospace, through to pharmaceutical and food and beverage. “Running these continuous coating operations
produces wastewater that needs to be treated before disposal in accordance with environmental regulations,” explains Luc Heldens, supervisor chemicals at AHC Benelux. “Both sites are certified to ISO14001 and we take great pride in our green credentials. To prepare process wastewater for disposal, both hydrochloric acid and caustic soda
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