With emerging PELs for airborne silica, foundries must readdress how process equipment meets goals for cost-effectiveness and worker safety
Accounting for space, elevation
Closed-system designs
Customized rotary system condenses gates, runners, and replaces high-maintenance processes that do not separate sand, debris
Customized for aggressive action
Boosting energy savings
Managers and executives of North American foundries and diecasters evaluate current business conditions, and give their perspectives on the factors shaping their sector’s activity in the coming year...
Patent-pending DustAway design helps industrial, other operations meet new OSHA regulations.
Bulk bag design attaches to mixer
OSHA regs limit PELs
Customizable sizes
In 2007 a foundry using a rotary drum shakeout system to break up sprue and separate sand from metal, needed a replacement. After many demanding rotations, this system needed to be replaced: The cast liner system in the drum had become worn out by...
Choosing the right shakeout equipment can reduce the volume of airborne dust — and reduce operation and labor costs.
Understand vibratory effects
Dealing with the heat
Rotary advantages
One foundry’s experience demonstrates the importance of solid design for shakeout equipment.
Looking for reliability, effectiveness
Full replacement or re-lining
Eight years running
Aluminum deflection elbows prevent sand, lime, iron oxide, grit and other abrasives from causing wear, failure and downtime
For dilute- or dense-phase pneumatic conveying
Design guides materials gently
Varying sizes available
