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Order for drum tongs
15 May 2015
Contact Attachments has worked with Aquila Nuclear Engineering to provide one of its fully automatic Drum Tongs for use during the Chute Silo Project at Berkeley – a shielded transfer flask and import/export facility.
Gary Butler, mechanical engineer at Aquila, explained: "The Transfer Flask project was part of Aquila’s contribution to the Chute Silo decommissioning project at Magnox Berkeley.
"We called upon Contact Attachments to provide us with a bespoke drum handling solution which was a vital part of the works we were undertaking. The team was extremely flexible and demonstrated a real ‘can do’ attitude with our repeated requests to amend the product’s specifications, and it arrived in an excellent condition.”
Jason Cadman, technical sales director at Contact Attachments, added: "The unit we provided was fitted to an overhead crane hoist, and then lowered 30m below ground level to lift drums of nuclear decommissioning waste remotely.
"Our Drum Tongs can handle drums of up to 100cm in diameter and come fully ‘CE' marked with a Certificate of Conformity to meet the latest health and safety regulations.”
