Industrial Factory Automation

Britvic has installed an LNL bottle-drying system from Air Control Industries (ACI) that is helping to minimise downtime and reduce energy consumption. This LNL features ACI's Jetplate plenum air delivery system. The system enables air to be delivered close to the bottles while simultaneously acting as guide rails to promote bottle stability during travel through the LNL. The LNL is a completely enclosed stainless-steel unit with polycarbonate inspection windows. The blower unit is mounted on top of the bottle dryer enclosure to permit the use of adjustable mounting legs to facilitate installation and cleaning. This version of ACI's LNL with Jetplates is also able to handle all the different bottle sizes handled at the Leeds Britvic plant, from the 125ml size for mixers up to the 750ml bottle for J2O, without requiring adjustment.

An Air Control Industries (ACI) Jetblack personnel de-duster has replaced a dangerous compressed air cleaning process at a Steetley Dolomite works. The Whitwell Works of Steetley Dolomite quarries and produces magnesium limestone products for the steel, refractory and agricultural industries. After the limestone is quarried, it is crushed, sized and processed to produce various products for applications such as steel furnace manufacture and repair, steel production, refractory products and agricultural soil improvement. The processing of the limestone to produce these products results in the creation of a lot of dust around the plant, which gets deposited on the overalls of workers on site. To de-dust themselves, although advised frequently not to because of the very real danger that it poses, many of the staff would clean their overalls down with compressed air. Posters about the risks and verbal warnings from the safety leader for compressed air, John Collins, seemed to do little to...