Cooling Grate fabrication and installation
Cooling Grates are installed at the end of the cement production process. They provide the cooling process for the end product before going off to storage vessels.
Due to the scale and weight of this system our expertise in this area of engineering ensures the correct installation and alignment of this equipment and that they will continue to work as designed. We also fabricate and install the support systems for Cooler Grates
Tags: Lepol Grate fabrication and installation
As part of the inlet process of cement production this high temperature equipment is responsible for delivering the feed to the inlet on some cement kilns and involves a lot of main drive shafts and drive chains.
Due to the scale and weight of this system our expertise in this area of engineering ensures the correct installation and alignment of this equipment. We also fabricate and install the support systems for Lepol Grates
Drive Gear Replacement
This project involved the installation of new drive gear into a raw mill. Because the working space was so confined there was no room in the mill building to get a crane inside, so we had to design specialist lifting beams before any work could be started. The lift was very complex and required very detailed studies to be carried out to ensure the safe handling of the two gear parts.
Each half of the drive gear weighed 15 tones and had to be installed to a tolerance of 0.5mm axially and 0.75 mm radially. We only had a 24 day window to install the lifting gear, get the old drive gear off and the new drive gear installed and working.
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We worked closely with FLSmidth on this project - FLSmidth supplied all the mechanical equipment and we carried out all the installation work for Plasmor.
This project required a pair of kilns with a total length of around 50m, weighing around 100 tons to be supplied and installed. Although access on the site was good, moving the 100 ton sections to the installation point created its own problems. A new road had to be built on site to get the kilns to their final destination.
Refurbish tyre at Castle Cement
As this job involved a cracked tyre it had to be treated as a priority case. The tyre needed replacing with minimum downtime to reduce lost production time as we are well aware that any lost time in this industry can be very costly. The existing shell needed to be supported and cut, to enable removal and replacement of the tyre on that section of the kiln.
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| A cracked tyre needed replacing. | Support spiders were put in place. | Grayton provided the specialists. |
We encountered different challenges on this project - we needed a highly specialised lift to get the tyre into position on site and we had to design specialist lugs to assist with lifting the tyre off.