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| Weighbridge to fit- any existing pit |
Coal Products Ltd (CPL) are the latest company to benefit from Weightron Bilanciai’s weighbridge manufacturing versatility and expertise. Weightron have significant experience in fitting weighbridges into existing pits and when the pit weighbridge at CPL’s Immingham plant needed replacing, they came up with a tailor-made solution based on their highly successful Eurodeck model.
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| Weightron engineer gets a rum deal in Caribbean weighbridge installation |
Weightron Bilanciai have installed an export version of their highly successful Eurodeck weighbridge for leading Caribbean minerals company Trincarb Ltd at their upgraded aggregates plant on the island of Trinidad. The modular surface mounted, 15 metre, 50 tonne weighbridge is specially designed to fit inside a standard 40 foot shipping container for cost effective world-wide transportation. On arrival at site the 1.5 metre wide sections are simply removed from the container and bolted side by side to form the requisite standard size deck modules.
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Sloping weighbridge technology solves sticky problem
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A special sloping 50 tonne Eurodeck pit weighbridge, has solved a ‘sticky’ problem for Hexion Specialty Chemicals at their Peterlee plant. When the company decided they needed to replace their aging pit weighbridge at their Peterlee site, they realised that finding a replacement was far from straightforward. The layout and terrain of the site mandate that the weighbridge has to operate on a gradient of 1 in 20! Having contacted a number of weighbridge manufacturers, Hexion found that Weightron Bilanciai were the only supplier who had the expertise and technology to take on the project. Weightron’s sloping bridge technology uses special load cell mounting assemblies in conjunction with the weighbridge design to ensure correct load introduction and a stable structure, even under vehicle braking conditions. Weighbridges can be installed to accommodate slopes either from end to end, side to side across the width of the bridge, or a combination of both.
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Volumetric Depositors help specialist frozen meal manufacturer meet increased demand |
Two Low Mount mobile depositing machines are playing a vital role at Classic Cuisine’s purpose-built factory in Northampton, helping the company meet the rapidly growing demand for its mouth-watering array of products. Established in 1990, Classic Cuisine is one of the UK’s leading independent specialist suppliers of award winning high quality frozen gourmet meal solutions to outlets including restaurants, hotel and pub groups, supermarkets and motorway service stations. The Weightron Bilanciai machines are used for a variety of processes including sauce deposition, filling boilable sauce pouches and piping mashed potato. Fill speed and accuracy is of paramount importance, especially given that Classic Cuisine currently produce upwards of 100,000 single meal units per week. Depending on the requirement, the depositors are capable of handling delicate or fragile vegetables and cooked meat in sauce, accommodating particulates up to 30 mm cubed.
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| Driver-operated weighbridge systems speed up weighing at busy waste transfer site - |
A twin driver-operated weighbridge system installed by Weightron Bilanciai is bringing a wide range of operational and fiscal advantages to Walsall Council at their waste transfer station in Bloxwich, West Midlands. The site is owned by Walsall Council and operated on their behalf by the not-for-profit company ECT Recycling. The installation has included a new driver-operated 50 tonne, 16 metre pit-mounted Eurodeck weighbridge at the site exit and upgrades to the existing entrance weighbridge to improve vehicle throughput and allow out of hours weighing. The two weighbridges are now linked through to the D800 terminal in the weighbridge office where the local PC runs Weightron’s Winweigh Connect-Intra software package.
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ATEX certified weighing systems come through with ‘flying colours’ |
ATEX certified process weighing equipment supplied by Weightron Bilanciai is playing an important role at the new Carrs Paints’ plant in Redditch. To meet the growing demand for their industrial products and streamline their manufacturing, Carrs have recently moved to new modern premises and the weighing equipment is part of a turnkey project carried out by Lancashire based Ai Process Systems Ltd (www.aiprocess.com). This has seen the installation of new equipment together with the transfer of existing equipment from the old premises. The new plant meets the latest ATEX requirements and provides a far more streamlined process for the paint mixing.
Weightron’s involvement has included the supply of 70 ATEX certified load cell weighing kits ranging in capacity from 3000 to 5000 kg, 22 D440IS ATEX certified weight controllers and two ATEX certified PRM stainless steel floor scales, together with on-site installation and calibration support.
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Future Proof weighbridge brings important benefits to leading ‘end of life’ tyre recycler |
Weightron Bilanciai have recently supplied a fourth 50 tonne Eurodeck pit-mounted weighbridge to leading tyre processor Sapphire Energy Recovery. This latest weighbridge, measuring 18 metres by 3.2 metres, has been installed at the company’s new processing plant in Manchester. Sapphire Energy Recovery was formed in 2001 as a joint venture between Lafarge Cement UK and Michelin Tyre plc to recover and process ‘End of Life’ tyres for their use as cement kiln fuel. It is estimated that over 40 million used tyres need recycling each year and since 2003 tyres can no longer be sent to land fill. Their almost indestructible design, so vital when in use, makes them difficult to recycle, presenting a major problem for manufacturers and suppliers.
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| International co-operation pays dividends |
Six concrete infill Titan weighbridges are playing a crucial role at Europe's largest palm oil refinery and fractionation plant in Rotterdam, which has been recently constructed for Loders Croklaan at a cost of about EUR 40 million. The weighbridges were built at Weightron’s Chesterfield plant and shipped over to Rotterdam where installation was carried out by Pfister Bilanciai engineers. There are five 18 x 3 metre bridges and one special 22 x 3 metre bridge each with a capacity of 60 tonnes.
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| Sweet success for liquid filling line |
The Filling Division of Weightron Bilanciai have installed and commissioned a bespoke caramel filling line and mechanical handling system for the Food Ingredients Division of The Healy Group at their operation in Leicestershire. The system is based around a gravimetric filling machine, which offers significant flexibility and versatility. The Healy Group’s Operations Manager Mervyn Penson is very upbeat about the new system and as he explains: “The design of the line gives us the best of both worlds and allows us to accommodate the different filling requirements for the wide range of end customers.
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| Weighbridges will help keep roads clear |
Twelve driver-operated Eurodeck weighbridges supplied by leading weighing specialists Weightron Bilanciai are playing an important role in keeping over 800 miles of roads and motorways in Yorkshire and Humberside free of ice and snow. During the winter months the economy of this huge area depends heavily on the road infrastructure continuing to operate relatively smoothly and, with many roads crossing some of the bleakest areas in Britain, ‘round the clock’ effective and efficient management of the gritting operation is vitally important.
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| Winweigh weighbridge systems installed for Great Lakes Chemtura |
Weightron Bilanciai have recently installed two pit mounted Eurodeck weighbridges and control systems for leading chemical producer Great Lakes Manufacturing (UK) Ltd, a Chemtura Company, at their plant in Manchester. The 50 tonne, 16 metre Eurodecks have replaced existing weighbridges and are used for weighing tankers and lorries as they enter and leave the site. The weighbridges are integrated with Weightron’s WinWeigh™ software package via Dialogic weight indicators.
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| More Heathrow T5 success |
Weightron Bilanciai have installed three more driver-operated, pit-mounted Eurodeck weighbridges at Heathrow’s T5 construction site. The installation comprises two standard 18 metre, 60 tonne capacity Eurodeck weighbridges and an extra wide 100 tonne capacity bridge, which can accommodate both standard lorries and the larger site construction vehicles.
This is the second phase of this important part of the project and follows on from the installation of the three original bridges in the entrance plaza in 2003. As this huge construction project progresses, the entrance to the site has been moved further north to make way for building works. The weighbridges play a pivotal role in controlling and monitoring the hundreds of lorries entering the site each day and, to avoid any site disruption, the bridges had to be installed and commissioned over a weekend.
This time restriction meant that the existing bridges could not be moved to the new location. The location of the new bridges, close to the multi-storey car park works, presented intriguing installation challenges for Weightron, each being on sloping sections of roadway with three different angles. However this problem is not new to Weightron who have developed an innovative solution for inclined weighbridges using special tapered wedges at each of the load cell mounting assemblies. |
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