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Muller Beltex is a Feed Design Lab partner: working together on innovation and sustainability in the animal feed industry

Muller Beltex is a Feed Design Lab partner: working together on innovation and sustainability in the animal feed industry

Muller Beltex is a partner of Feed Design Lab – – a research and education centre for innovation and sustainability in the animal feed industry. Being involved in feed production developments is important to Muller Beltex. It’s how we can respond to changes affecting our materials, like the rubber for our Polysur® elevator belts and the various plastics used to manufacture our elevator buckets. In one example, feed additives can affect the service lives of our materials.

Technical knowledge transfer

The Feed Design Lab partnership lets Muller Beltex transfer its technical knowledge. It also lets Muller Beltex assist members in preserving and optimising their elevators.

Feed Design Lab’s members include mechanical engineers, technicians and, of course, animal feed producers. This varied combination makes for short lines, allowing a quick change of gears when urgent issues arise.

Feed Design Lab Lets members organise a range of training sessions at its production facility in Wanssum in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. Various members send their new employees to Wanssum, to familiarise them with all the facets of their profession. Technical workers responsible for installation continuity are also trained at Feed Design Lab, for an even better understanding of the processes involved. Muller Beltex likes to contribute to this by transferring specific knowledge on elevators, ATEX monitoring systems and wear-reducing solutions.

About Feed Design Lab
To develop a sustainable animal feed production chain, feed production and technology companies work together internationally in an open innovation network. A production facility has been constructed to this end where:

  • research into new raw materials is conducted;
  • healthy animal feeds are developed;
  • new production techniques are tested; and
  • training activities take place.

For more information visit www.feeddesignlab.nl or contact us.

Intervention leads to preservation – Full elevator overhaul at Codrico

Intervention leads to preservation – Full elevator overhaul at Codrico

About Codrico in Rotterdam

Codrico Rotterdam BV is a leading company in Rotterdam specialising in processing raw materials like cereals and corn. It manufactures high-quality snacks (such as energy bars), breakfast cereals and other components for the foods we consume daily.

Motivation

Codrico Rotterdam BV recently told us its elevator used for the intake of raw materials was behaving erratically. Wear of the pulley’s lagging was putting the elevator belt out of alignment, so that the misalignment monitoring system issued constant alarms.

Closer inspection revealed that the elevator belt was due for replacement, and it needed new wear plates. All this work was combined and the assembly was carried out in a single stop to prevent many unnecessary standstills.

Activities progress

The drive pulley and the elevator belt were lifted from the elevator together. The first assembly team could then disassemble the elevator buckets, which were still in good condition. The buckets were able to be attached to the new belt immediately because the new elevator belt had already been punched and delivered. Meanwhile the new NBR pulley lagging was applied at the plant’s workshop in Pijnacker in the Netherlands. This type of rubber is highly suitable for products containing oil and grease. High-quality NBR lagging prevents the belt from slipping, and ensures optimal friction between the belt and drive. This removes the  need for an extremely tightly-tensioned belt, which in turn reduces the load on the bearings and shafts.

When the pulley was lifted out the bearing housings opened up. So the client agreed that the bearings should be replaced preventively, and new SKF bearings were installed. This was an important part of the repair work, because worn bearings can become an ignition source, thus constituting a potential dust explosion hazard.

A Polysur® 276 elevator belt was then installed. This thoroughly oil and grease-resistant belt was developed especially for applications in the agricultural and animal feed industry.

The Maxi-Super elevator belt fastener – a product engineered in-house – was installed to make this belt endless. The fastener has a highly unique, removable NBR wear part fitted on its aluminium wedge area. This causes the wear part to wear down rather than the elevator belt. It also ensures continuous rubber contact between belt and fastener on the pulleys, resulting in a better-balanced installation and preventing any unnecessary battering noises as the fastener runs over the pulleys.

Kryptane®, which is unsurpassed in elasticity and wear resistance, was used to cover the elevator head. This material is perfectly resistant to the product flow of sharp cereals and is also sound-deadening, making it ideal for residents living near the plant.

If you need a thorough inspection, or if you would like to have your elevator parts replaced, please contact our specialists.

Successful preservation and safety of Bunge elevator

Successful preservation and safety of Bunge elevator

A Muller Beltex overhaul has improved the safety of a 50-metre elevator in the Port of Brest in France. The elevator, owned by Bunge, has been given new drive and return pulleys, and has undergone a major improvement to its safety systems.

A specialist in agricultural seeds, Bunge processes some two million tonnes of soy bean and rapeseed into vegetable oils and protein-rich meals in Europe each year. When it acquired the Cargill oil plant in Brest, Bunge decided to undertake its thorough renovation – including preserving the 50-metre-high elevator. Muller Beltex joined forces with its service partner and the firm Ilchmann to carry out the work. This included a thorough inspection of the 600 T/hr and 1000 mm wide elevator with its double row of polyurethane Maxi-Lift Tiger-Tuff elevator buckets.

Both pulleys were worn and there were mounting problems with the misalignment monitoring system. How could it happen, and how can you avoid this in your own installation? Read Bulk Magazine’s in-depth article on this project by clicking the button below.

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