May 2009 - Low Resolution - PAWPRINT PUBLISHING

NEWS
Dustraction completes phase one at Triplar
DUSTRACTION has completed
phase one of a major new extraction
system as part of a factory
move by premium
Northampton shopfitter Triplar,
whose long term and ongoing
customers include names like
Nokia, Levi Strauss and Nike.
The move is part of the succession
tactics of owner and managing
director, Mike Rodwell, who
has run the business for 15 years
and is now handing the reins on to
his son, Tim, currently new business
development manager.
“I selected Dustraction for the
work when we equipped our first
factory 20 years ago because of the
great reputation they have always
had: then I picked them again for
the new place because the original
extraction layout ran day in, day
out ever since,” says Mike.
“It never broke down, never
needed formal servicing and
never even warranted a call-out
visit by Dustraction in support.
That’s the kind of reliability I need
these days when unless you have
your own house in order, you
don’t even make it to the negotiating
table with the sort of companies
that are now our clients.”
The newly refurbished factory
Triplar is moving to is smaller than
the original because the needs of
the company have changed. For
example, the high precision timber
joinery work that is central to
the image plans of the blue-chip
organisations that Triplar represents
is more specialised and
metal fabrication is now outsourced
from partner suppliers in
the EU. Although the internal fitout
of the new factory is not yet
complete in terms of ducting and
connections, meaning the move is
still ‘work in progress’, the filters
and incineration plant parts of
Dustraction’s £100,000 contract,
are all in position and details can
be released in time for this issue.
A Dustrax 8SRV modular woodwaste
filter is servicing a range of
traditional timber joinery machines
from bandsaws, planer
thicknessers, spindle moulders
and sanding/finishing plant to a
new Zerbrik PZ 63/1 chipper for
reducing waste generated by
Triplar on its own site to manageable
proportions.
The heavy-duty Zerbrik also
now reduces off-cuts brought
back to it from customer sites nationwide
as part of a new policy of
dealing effectively with waste
generated during all shop fitting
upgrades and new-fit projects.
Fansets by Dustraction have a lot to live up to at Triplar — those
at the shopfitter’s previous factory ran for 20 years without a
breakdown or a call-out or even so much as a service!
Dustraction’s Dustrax SRV 8 woodwaste modular filter was bespoke
built for the space at Triplar and to handle extraction from the six
biggest of the shopfitter’s 15 machines running at any one time.
Triplar is currently helping mobile
phone communications giant
Nokia to roll out its global product
and brand messages for 2009
across a network of retail outlets in
the UK and around the world.
Other major brands whose high
street presence is serviced by
Triplar are Levi Strauss, the global
kings of denim, and Nike, whose
sporting footwear is believed to
be the world’s premier brand and
who employ more than a million
people worldwide.
Work for these giants of the retail
sector involves timber and
metal product displays, front-ofhouse
cash desks and everything
down to cabinet doors, architraves
and mouldings; the material waste
factor can be high and Triplar
management is very sensitive to
its environmental responsibilities.
All three-dimensional waste is
now reduced to manageable proportions
on the Zerbrik chipper
before transfer to a Woodwaste
Technology WT15A burner both to
eliminate it and to generate heat
for the factory; card and paper
waste, plastics and metals are all
sorted, separated and disposed of
in an equally environmentally approved
and friendly manner.
the periodic removal of caked
waste material from the filter
sleeves automatically when the
plant is shut down and the equipment
overall is controlled from a
fully sequenced panel with all contractors,
timers and overloads.
The ducting element of the project
represents phase two of the
Triplar contract and provides for inspection
doors on suction mains
and on all machine connections
with blastgate shut-off dampers on
droppers to individual machines to
allow the system to alternate. The
extraction function encompasses
two 630 mm diameter spray booth
stacks with jet cowls to exhaust
fumes at high level from the paint
finishing shop and the system
overall is designed for noise and vibration-free
operation to fall within
Regulation 9 of the current HSE
COSHH requirements.
Mike Rodwell is not able accurately
to quantify payback from
the effective disposal of wood
waste via the new Dustraction layout.
Re-use of waste as a fuel resource
is one thing, he says, but its
value as a public relations benefit
with customers is incalculable.
“The long term trend with energy
costs is rising and ensuring
Dustraction’s Dustrax SRV8 that this company is ‘waste minus’
woodwaste modular filter provides
1,770 ft 2 of cloth filter fabric
in a series of 18 tubular cotton
forms to handle an air velocity of
11,000 cfm based on the six
biggest of Triplar’s 15 machines
running at any one time. Twin
shaker mechanisms provide for
en-route to the customer negotiating
table is a major part of my
role here now,” he concludes.
Dustraction Ltd
Tel 0116 271 3212
Email
steve.matuska@dustraction.co.uk
www.dustraction.co.uk
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