No holes in these buckets
29 Mar 2000
At British Steel's Llanwern works a clean air campaign has resulted in an order for Nerak-Wiese's WB continuous-bucket vertical conveying system. Chosen by main contractor Mannesmann Demag, the system handles the solid matter removed from a dust extraction plant.
The WB300 system fulfilled the requirement of zero-leakage, each bucket being connected to the next by a flexible diaphragm. The polyamide buckets are carried by rubber block chains running on plain wheels. So the chains run silently and, more significantly, there is considerably reduced wear and tear on the conveyor drive wheels, prolonging their working life.
