C J Waterhouse Company was initially approached by a large UK refractory component manufacturer to solve a specific materials handling problem that they have experienced for many years. The problem was related to the handling and dispersion of a specific blended material. This material has a very high bulk density of over 2500Kg/m3 and readily compacts under its own weight due to the blend consisting of a variety of particle sizes. The downstream process requires that this material be delivered to the mould station in small batches of approximately 2Kg as a fine, well blended material.
Previous methods for completing this process involved; FIBC discharging, sieving, re-blending and dosing. This process was carried out by a series of individual standard machines which is time consuming, costly and ineffective.
With their experience in bespoke machine design, C J Waterhouse co was commissioned to produce a machine to overcome and simplify the existing process.
The product design phase studied all the individual processes and sought to combine them into a single integrated machine
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