DUST CONTROL & EXPLOSION PROTECTION CEMEX’S BAGGING PLANT GETS
THE DISAB TREATMENT CEMEX UK, one of the UK’s leading building materials solutions providers, has been deploying DISAB SkipVacs™ to keep its new state-of-the-art, £3.5 million cement bagging plant clean and dust-free. Based at its Rugby plant site in Warwickshire, the new plant now provides CEMEX customers with cement in the new vacuum-sealed, plastic packaging.
much more easily accomplished.” “The main advantage of the DISAB
WHY WAS A SKIPVAC™ NEEDED? Unlike the old bagging process, the
sophisticated plastic vac-packing process is housed within a building, and as the man responsible for CEMEX’s bagging plant, Carlos Contreras recognized, this would need a very different approach to keeping the plant and building clean and dust-free. Carlos explains: “Traditionally we’d
have cleaned up manually so while the new bagging plant was being built, we researched online and found DISAB UK (
www.disab.com) had the kind of cleaning solution we were looking for, one that can deal with both dust and larger spillages. It was also forklift portable, powerful and easy to use, and worked as a fully enclosed system.”
HOW’S THE SKIPVAC™ PERFORMING? Carlos is clearly delighted with the net
results, as he comments: “The SkipVac™ is a really good and highly effective industrial cleaning solution. Starting with one, we have just introduced a second at the cement mills area and they’re saving our operatives a lot of time compared with manual cleaning techniques employed. Furthermore, we’ve noticed that certain parts of the bagging plant like the palletiser need more attention when it comes to cleaning and removing dust. Using SkipVacs™ makes these tasks
SkipVac™ is the time factor. For our operatives, using the SkipVac™ is a lot less hassle and a lot more efficient. I’d reckon that what would have been a day’s work done by two men is now able to be completed by one in 3-4 hours. That means we can clean much more plant in one day.”
COUPLE OF TONNES OF CEMENT DUST A WEEK CLEANED UP AND RECYCLED Carlos continues: “The cleaning is
usually done on Sundays, and we will fill the SkipVacs’ hoppers three to four times with the dust generated by a week’s production and bagging. This equates to about two tonnes which goes straight back into the production process, so there’s no waste at all.”
CEMEX AND MAINTAINING TOP STANDARDS OF HOUSEKEEPING Carlos explains the company’s position
on insisting on the highest standards of operation: “For CEMEX,” he said, “good housekeeping is one of our top priorities. In addition to our commitment to health and safety, the environment and sustainability, it’s very important that every place of work is as safe, clean and well maintained. “This greatly helps the mindset of our
operatives, and shows outside audiences that CEMEX is actually demonstrating what we believe in and talk about. And it’s obviously impressing customers who can see
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a very clean and high tech set-up which all helps to enhance the perceptions of CEMEX as a great company to deal with.”
REACHING THE PLACES OTHER THINGS CAN’T REACH Carlos has seen how the SkipVac’s™
flexibility and reach is making cleaning much easier: “The SkipVac’s™ vacuum suction power is especially effective at cleaning the parts that are awkward to reach or get at, or which are intricate and complex. A powerful vacuum makes dust removal from these difficult-to-clean parts easy, whereas traditional methods would be virtually ineffective. “This has a number of benefits: it keeps
our working environment clean and dust-free, and the plant itself can be maintained in a good and dust-free condition. The result is a much more efficient and longer engineering life for the plant.”
DISAB UK’S SUPPORT AND SERVICE IS TOP NOTCH Having contacted DISAB UK initially
following his online research, Carlos was impressed by the expertise and advice he then received, initially from their sales engineer, as to which DISAB machine would provide the best cleaning solution for CEMEX’s specific requirements, and then at the speed of response whenever a call was placed to DISAB UK itself. As Carlos explained it: “We’ve enjoyed brilliant support from the team at DISAB UK.”
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