Spiroflow conveyors for Africa drinks maker
13 Jun 2012
Clitheroe, UK – Spiroflow’s ‘aero-mechanical’ conveyor is being used to load sugar into a tank in which syrup is produced by drinks manufacturer, Kasapreko Co. Ltd in Ghana, West Africa.
Kasapreko of Baatsonaa, Accra produces ‘Alomo Bitters’, which is made from tropical plant extracts. Due to increased syrup production from 1,000 ltrs per shift to 10,000 ltrs per shift, it nedded a conveyor to improve the speed at which sugar is loaded into the syrup mixing tank.
The stainless-steel construction supplied to Kasapreko is a ‘round-the-corner’ design – conveying sugar 4.7 metres vertically and two meters horizontally in a single unit driven at its outlet.
Sugar is loaded into the conveyor by way of a sack tip hopper at its inlet. The hopper has a safety grid onto which bags can be rested whilst being cut open. This takes place within a dust cabinet and through a clear plastic strip curtain.
The cabinet is furnished with a spigot so that it can be connected to a central dust extraction system to ensure a clean and safe working environment for the operatives.
The conveyor is designed to move high volumes of material at any angle without loss of efficiency. Discs connected to a rope moving at high speed within an enclosed feed and return pipe system entrain product into their slipstreams.
The design does not need a filtration system as no air is either added to or subtracted from the system. The units are used particularly in applications requiring ‘total batch transfer’ of measured amounts of material.
