Elevator proves to be a soap star
November 1st 2006

When gentle, quiet handling is needed during the manufacture of soap powder Unilever use Nerak continuous and pendulum bucket elevators to convey its products.

With the continuous drive to produce ever more efficient production processes Unilever set about minimising the amount of wastage from airborne dust caused at the transfer to and from its bucket elevators when conveying their lighter powders.

However process equipment is designed to prevent the escape of dust to the atmosphere and so determining the exact airflow at the point of transfer is not easy.

Polycarbonate windows have previously been used to view inside the elevator, however on this occasion it was decided that a more radical approach was needed to determine the airflow within the elevator and hence a bucket elevator (the glass elevator) was constructed with minimum steelwork and maximum visibility provided by the use of polycarbonate panels.

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