PLASTRATUM LTD
Plastratum Ltd, one of the fastest growing Electro Plating and Metal Finishing plant supplier’s in the UK The Chemical Engineering designers at Plastratum Ltd, the fastest growing electro plating and metal finishing plant supplier in the UK, were commissioned to design, manufacture, install and commission an integral fully automatic barrel and jig zinc and zinc/ nickel plating and chemical processing plant with in-barrel drying. The plant was supplied with two drying stations, one for the jigged components and one with an internal vectored construction around 60% of the barrel circumference allowing pressurised hot air to permeate through the larger hole sizes allowable for the products. Full drying of the components and the barrel unit was achieved within the cycle time of the plant. This removed the requirement for additional product transfer usually attributed to off line centrifugal component drying, making the entire operation more efficient with the additional handling cost reductions.
consider Thermal Fluid heating for both applications. Plastratum were able to advise the customer that a gas fired Thermal Fluid boiler system, which initally showed an increase in project capital cost, was amortised against the cost of electricity with a pay-back in as little as eighteen months. Some over capacity in the Thermal Fluid boiler enabled the provision of heated domestic hot water for the factory which had been supplied previously and successfully to another customer, again an overall cost saving benefit. The benefit of Thermal Fluid boiler systems is that maintenance is only required once per year, thus
At the customers request the plant was initially designed for electrical heating, but we were asked to also install additional heating to an existing automatic spray phosphating plant. It became cost effective to
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