Dust extraction systems with combined metal rejection
Controlling dust and ensuring air quality is paramount for maintaining a safe and efficient work environment. Managing airborne dust is a significant challenge for industries ranging from food, plastics and recycling to pharmaceuticals and chemicals. It poses serious health risks to workers and can lead to costly regulatory breaches.
Gough Engineering understands the critical importance of maintaining air quality for worker safety, removing unwanted contaminants as well as preventing cross-contamination between different product materials. Contaminants such as metal fragments can lead to major product recalls, damaging reputations and causing substantial financial losses.
These challenges necessitate robust material handling solutions that can effectively capture dust and ensure a cleaner, safer workplace. Gough Engineering’s advanced material handling equipment directly addresses these challenges with integrated dust extraction units and cutting-edge metal rejection systems.
Better material handling
Coupled with efficient rip and tip stations, these integrated de-dusting solutions provide:
- Comprehensive dust control through integrated dust extraction units
- Effective air quality management
- Removing cross-contamination
- Prevention of contamination with advanced metal rejection systems
By choosing Gough Engineering’s equipment and support, you can ensure your operations meet the highest standards of safety and quality.
Why use rip and tip stations?
Rip and tip stations in material handling are specialised workstations found in many production systems, warehouses and distribution centers.
Rip stations — are dedicated to unpacking incoming goods by opening packages and containers using tools like box cutters, ensuring items are inspected, sorted and sometimes repacked for further processing.
Tip stations — once unpacked, goods are transferred to tip stations where they are tipped onto transfer systems like conveyor belts or sorting systems for efficient movement into further temporary storage or distribution processes.
These stations enhance operational efficiency by streamlining unpacking, improving inventory accuracy and maintaining a safer working environment through dedicated handling and processing areas where manual handling can be improved and safety issues reduced.
Dust control and contamination prevention
Gough Engineering’s integrated dust extraction units combined with metal rejection systems for rip and tip stations and sieving are essential in industries like pharmaceuticals, food processing, plastics, recycling and chemicals.
Our systems address two critical issues: dust control and contamination prevention.
Dust control
Dust extraction units maintain a clean working environment by capturing airborne particles, improving air quality, reducing respiratory risks and preventing product loss.
Take bucket elevator systems, like Gough’s Swinglink® Bucket Elevator. Adding dust extraction spigots to inlet and discharge points can prevent fine and air-borne powders from spreading. These spigots — openings or outlets that connect ductwork or hoses to equipment — will help contain the powder when it goes in or out of the buckets.
Additional options for vibrational separation machines also include fully enclosed designs using a tubular transfer body design or a removable/ fixed lid.
Integrated extraction can be supplied with a special filter unit, drawing dust from the rip and tip area into a collectable set of enclosed filters. The filters can be cleaned and even removed for cleaning or swap-over to allow the filters to be reused. The objective is to ensure air-borne small particles are removed from the operator’s immediate environment, keeping the machine cleaner throughout a shift.
Read about how Gough engineering’s Vibratory Screens support dust extra
Contamination prevention
Metal rejection systems detect and remove both ferrous and non-ferrous metal contaminants, ensuring your products are pure and comply with industry standards.
To recover metals such as shredded copper, the Vibrecon® vibratory separator (GVC) is utilised to sort products by particle size using vibration. This equipment features single or multiple decks and is available in various diameters. Employing a gyratory sifting motion, the system consistently processes materials, which enables their reformation, reconstitution, or resale to other manufacturers.
In addition, fixed magnets (or removable) can be fitted to all types of machines to remove ferrous metals.
More sophisticated solutions can also be applied to allow the removable of any ferrous materials automatically, rejected during a gravity-fed situation.
Whatever your requirements, Gough Engineering can review your objectives and design the best solution for your operations.
Case study: Debris and metal screening system
Gough Engineering’s solutions are not solely for manufacturing processes. The capability of these solutions are exemplified in projects like the development of a mobile single deck linear feeder screen equipped with overband magnets for the Singapore police force. This bespoke solution efficiently categorises debris and isolates metallic particles, ensuring accurate forensic analysis
The system's effectiveness has expanded its implementation, with adaptations for the Vietnamese and Thai police forces, as well as deployment with the Metropolitan Police Force in the UK, underscoring its broad utility and success.
Contact Gough Engineering’s specialists today
Gough Engineering’s specialists will work with you to integrate and customise these integrated systems into your unique production environments, to significantly enhance your operational workflow. From loading and dust extraction to metal detection and sieving, each step is optimised for maximum safety, quality control and efficiency.
Contact Gough Engineering to find out how we can help integrate and customise these advanced, high-performance systems into your unique production environments. From loading and dust extraction to metal detection and sieving, each step is optimised for maximum safety, quality control and efficiency.
Get in touch with our team of experienced engineers to discuss your system requirements on 01782 567770. Or fill out our online enquiry form below.