Weston Milling has been milling grain and selling baking ingredients throughout Australia for over 80 years. The company was looking to increase factory throughput, which required increasing the cooling capacity of the plant by installing larger fans. Unfortunately the existing equipment was creating unacceptably high level of noise. Complaints from neighbouring residents had led to […]
SunRice is one of Australia’s leading rice and food exporters. At their Leeton manufacturing plant, varieties of rice go through a milling process where the husk, bran and germ are removed to improve grain texture and to extend its life. The bran polishing plant, required a new dust collector with a very tight envelope for […]
A client within the grain industry was suffering from a problem that significantly affected the quality of their product as it was loaded onto cargo vessels. A number of solutions had been attempted without success, so the client approached APCINFRA to investigate novel approaches to solving the problem. APCINFRA undertook a series of studies to […]
Fire assaying is a laboratory technique that uses a combination of intense heat produced by a furnace, together with dry reagents called fluxes, to isolate and measure the amount of a precious metal such as gold and silver in samples of ore. One of the most effective fluxes is litharge, a mixture of various lead […]
This client, a major defense contractor, was facing a challenge involving fume and dust extraction as it attempted to implement a major infrastructure upgrade which was critical to increasing their manufacturing capability. APCINFRA was approached to design and install a robust system that would meet all internal and external requirements. After considering the particular needs […]
