WA-BASED Coastline Kitchens has installed the Eximo Optiflow ducting system for waste handling in a revamp of its manufacturing systems.
According to Eximo, its Optiflow system allowed Coastline Kitchens to move away from normal waste handling and extraction technology, resulting in lower pressures and power needed to handle all wood-dust and airborne particles.
Although the Optiflow system cost around twice of other technologies, Coastline Kitchens says it chose Eximo’s solution because lower energy consumption would benefit the company in the medium term.
Prior to the Optiflow ducting system, Coastline Kitchens was using a standard bag collection system with a 45kW motor which relied on the high-powered suction of dust from areas where the machines were in operation.
The kitchen company decided to upgrade when it moved to nested-based manufacturing on machining centres run by software. The higher productivity required more negative pressure to remove the waste.
The Optiflow ducting system draws and captures about 1.5 cubic metres of wood dust per hour. It also allowed Coastline Kitchens to move machines around on the production line floor.
Optiflow is integrated with an overall pressure-driven extraction system, and has a low speed conveyor within. According to Eximo, it creates a negative pressure chamber across an entire factory or processing plant to eliminate the total static pressure of the whole system by as much as 50%.
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