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Pump Skids

Designed three (3) new pump skids for dye injection into the product stream. 

Capital Costs:  $120,000

Control Panel Fabrications

Provide the control panel fabrication for the retrofit of an existing relay control system.  The new system consisted of one (1) modicon quantum  PLC and one (1) industrial panel mount computer.

Capital Costs:  $150,000

FMR Coating Process

Engineering and design for the installation of new sheet coating process.  To include removal of existing water wash system and equipment and installation of new sheet stacker/destacker system.

Capital Costs:  $800,000

Paper Mill

Provided two (2) new PLC Control Panels for new waste water treatment facility at paper mill.

Capital Costs:  $1,300,000

Control Panel

Provided Modicon 984 PLC I/O Control Panel for RF debottlenecking.

Capital Costs:  $4,000,000

Cleated Belt Conveyor

80-foot long, 67-foot tall, z-shaped flexible-wall, cleated belt conveyors to elevate shredded aluminum chips into a furnace.

Capital Costs:  $400,000

Belt and Apron Conveyors

Four (4) belt conveyors and two (2) apron conveyors to surge feed raw material into a furnace.  Included two (2) new bins and the rework of two (2) existing bins.

Capital Costs:  $800,000

Global Standard Design

Global Standard Design of a continuous mixing/sheeting process for the manufacturing of gum.   The detailed design included the process, mechanical, electrical, and CSA engineering from raw material feed to the plant, storage, mixing, feeding material to extrusion, extrusion of mix, conveying and shooting of the product prior to packaging.   Design and specification of all equipment / instrumentation was also included.

Capital Costs:  $8,000,000

UV Coating Line Measurement

Performed engineering design of a coating verification system.  The testing equipment consisted of two (2) color/UV sensors and two (2) thickness sensors arranged to provide measurements at predetermined locations based on the glass sheet size.   The color/UV sensors were a two part system with an emitter located below the glass and the receiver located above.  The thickness probe was a single sensor that required adjustment for varying glass thickness.   To accommodate the variable glass widths, one of the color/UV emitter/receiver ...

Belt Conveyor

45-degree corrugated-wall cleated belt conveyor to convey cat litter from grade to the top of silo.

Capital Costs:  $150,000

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