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Robson conveyors keep British Sugar on the move

- 8th April 2008
- Materials Handling
Conveyor systems designed, built and installed by Robson Handling at British Sugar's two processing plants in Norfolk are keeping the 2007/8 campaign moving.
At Wissington, the company has provided a line to the new screening and bagging plant incorporating 19 screw conveyors, an elevator and two enclosed, low-friction conveyors to Robson's own Airglide design.
The Airglides transfer granulated sugar at high level from the existing screening area inside tubular gantries, which are mounted on two transfer towers.
The work also called for modifications to the existing screen and magnet in the bulk outloading area, and provision of new platforming for personnel access.
Over at Cantley Robson's task was to provide a new bulk outloading facility, complete with the steel-framed building to house it and a dedicated tanker access road.
The system accepts sugar from the existing export elevator via a new screw conveyor and transports it on a gantry-mounted Airglide belt conveyor to an elevator in the new outloading building.
Here, the sugar is lifted to the top floor and discharged through a screen, magnet, metal-check and sampler into a 65-tonne capacity storage bin mounted on load cells. It is dispensed from the bin by a pneumatic slide valve through a bellows into the tanker waiting on the weighbridge below.
The system can handle up to 100 tonnes an hour - equivalent to 4,000 tonnes in a full working week.
In total the Wissington and Cantley contracts are valued at more than £5 million.
Geo Robson & Co (Conveyors) Ltd,
Coleford Road,
Sheffield S9 5PA
Tel: 0114-244-4221
Fax:0114-243-3066
E-mail: atkinsoni@robson.co.uk
Website: www.robson.co.uk
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