Industrial Solutions
Comprehensive engineering solutions for aluminium, pulp & paper, and fluewall maintenance industries
Industrial Solutions
We can take on your toughest challenges. Our goal? Increase your productivity with more than 5 decades of successful business that speak for themselves. We engineer and manufacture mission critical material handling and processing systems for world leading industrial facilities worldwide.
We are your partner in improving your productivity across multiple industries. Our group of highly trained engineers, designers, and project managers will help you get the most of your plant on time and within your budget.
We take pride in developing new equipment or an overall material handling solution for your specific industrial requirements.
Extrusion Billet Batch Homogenizing Systems
Fully automated or semi-automated material handling for extrusion billets for homogenizing and on to sawing operations. We design and build a highly efficient automatic aluminium batch homogenizing build and break down system.
Our competitive advantage: Our gantry system does not touch the aluminium billets. All motions that we make during the transfer of the extrusion billets are made in linear motions. This improves the reliability and position of the billet at the transfer point.
Our solution ensures:
- Uniform load growth during the homogenizing cycles
- Linear motions for aluminium billet transfer – no log rolling
- Robust billet homogenizing furnace spacers to prevent loads from shifting
Extrusion Billet Sawing and Packaging Systems
Fully automated or semi-automated material handling for extrusion billets for internal or external supply. We provide our customers with the world's most automated and productive aluminium extrusion billet sawing and packaging systems.
Our solutions can be either automatic or semi-automatic and will package the billets and logs for internal use or to supply your customer. The billets and logs are typically prepared to industrial shipping standards but, we can design the packaging line to meet your specific needs.
These systems are tailored to suit customer production requirements and include:
- High speed and robust roller conveyors
- High capacity accumulation conveyors
- Smooth and quiet 90 degree pick and place transfer devices
- High speed circular saws or band saws
- Length gauge stops with integrated programmable pin marking systems
- Automatic Billets stacking machines
- Automatic Billet Strapping machines using steel or plastic strapping and having the capability to insert woodrunners
- Package weighing
- Saw chip collection
- Saw chip briquetting
- Ultrasonic Inspection Stations
- Level 0 and 1 instrumentation and control systems with option Level 2 SCADA
Slab and T-Ingot Sawing Systems
Robust systems for receiving Ingots from vertical casting machine and then cutting them and packing them for downstream processing.
For the handling and high speed cutting, marking, and packaging of Slabs, T-Bars, and plates, we provide complete automated systems.
These systems are designed for the specific handling of vertically direct chill (VDC) cast ingots. The equipment is ultra heavy duty to assure reliability and high uptime in the face of the heavy loads and occasional operator abuse.
Systems include:
- Ingot downenders
- Roller Conveyors
- Squaring devices
- High Speed Circular or Band Sawing Machines
- Fully integrated weigh stations
- Automatic pin marking, ink jet marking and labelling systems
- Automatic stacking, strapping and packing per customer requirements
- Automatic ultrasonic inspection
Melt Furnace Charging and Tending Machines
Rail bound aluminium scrap furnace charge car and furnace tending machines.
For both upgrades of existing casthouses and for new cast houses, we design and build rail bound scrap furnace charging machines and furnace tending machines.
Benefits associated with such charging and tending systems include:
- Increased throughput
- Reduction of damage to the furnace linings
- Ability to use a greater percentage of scrap
- Reduction of gas usage
- Increased operator safety
Sow Casting Systems
We design and build a full range of sow casting systems from 5 to 40 tonne per hour in both air cooled and water cooled versions. These systems can be very basic and used as a back-up to other more sophisticated casting machines or they can be fully automated with a marking and packing line and used as mission critical processing lines.
Our systems include:
- Gantry style cranes for crucible transportation
- Crucible tilter stations
- Robotic or dedicated skimming stations
- Sow mould train or turntable style
- Sow moulds
- Vacuum de-moulding/ sow extraction machines
- Secondary water cooling
- Sow weighing and marking stations
- Sow stacking
- Sow accumulation conveyors
Custom Heavy Handling and Packaging Systems
We can custom engineer machines of all types for automatic or semi-automatic material handling operations.
Examples of such machines are:
- Ultra heavy duty roller and chain type conveyors
- Bridge cranes, Gantry Cranes, ASRS Cranes
- Rail Bound transfer cars – optional battery operation and wireless control
- Robotic pick and place (up to 1000 kg payloads)
- Industrial Weighing, marking, labelling
Pulper Feed Systems
Advanced Dynamics pulper feed systems are an industry staple. The higher the production, the fewer the operators, the BETTER! Our product range covers dried market pulp, wetlap, mechanical pulp, and recycled paper. Wire removal is our specialty.
Our Solutions Include:
- Pulper Feed System
- Roll Handling Systems
- Roll Wrapping Systems
Pulp and Wetlap Bale Systems
When it comes to kraft pulp bale & wetlap bale handling, we are your solution supplier. We know bales; un-wrapper, wrapper, wires on, wires off, plastic straps, re-pulpable straps, glued, single bales, stacked bales, unit stacks.
We understand the particular needs for your specific product handling needs to ensure high production throughput, high quality, undamaged superior finished product.
Recycled Bale Systems
A forefront innovator in recycle bale handling, sorting and dewiring technology. With our continual evolvement of our equipment solution we create better performing equipment that improves our customers' needs and industry demands.
We can also remove wires or straps from carpet bales to bales of plastic bottles to meet our customers ever changing requirements to recycle.
Our R-Dewiring platform covers a wide range of products from:
- Waste paper bales
- OCC bales
- Shredded bales
- Trim bales
Dewiring Systems
Market Leadership; We are the number one manufacturer of automatic kraft bale dewiring systems in North America. With 3-generations of proven and field tested automatic dewiring to our "Next Generation", K2K Robotic Dewiring System.
If your product has wires, we can remove them efficiently, and safely. Our solutions can be complete as a system package or can be individual pieces of equipment that can be retro-fitted into your facility.
Winder Decks
Winder deck design and operator safety is our strength. As the industry moves towards automated decks for separating and labeling rolls, we are leading the way with innovative solutions that responsibly combine automation with operator intervention.
We'll handle your rolls through our plant specific designed material handling from the paper machine to the packaging areas. The rolls will then be allowed for safe and protected storage in your warehousing area.
Conveying Systems
Damage free roll handling is at the core of our conveying systems. Whether elevating or lowering rolls, bilge transferring on impact free MoveRoll™ decks, or basic conveying with either belt, chain or slat conveyors, we will match the equipment to your mill specific needs.
Warehouse Systems
The paper roll's integrity is the key consideration for all warehouse systems. The roll tracking combined with roll upender/rotator, label positioner, and accumulation conveyors are the basic elements for any successful warehouse system.
Kraft Wrapping
Roll wrapping systems using programmable head placement and label application robots offer you the best in automated equipment at a very competitive cost. Our kraft and stretch wrapping systems are the two most popular wraplines that we will custom build.
Your required output and your desired level of automation, combined with the basic requirements (diameter, width and weight) will determine the Kraft wrapping technology we will offer you. We offer our signature "NIPLESS" wrapper dispenser in any of our system configurations.
Whether its a low-profile, overhead type or mini-wrapper concept, our kraft wrapping system incorporates the six basic operations:
- Product identification
- Wrapping
- Head placement (manual or robotic)
- Crimping
- Heading
- Labelling
Stretch Wrapping
Radial or Axial stretch wrapping systems which are often combined are the two popular styles offered to the market. They incorporate identification, head insertion (manual or automatic), wrapping and labelling. Our stretch wraplines are custom-built to fit your mill and to meet your production requirements.
Our diverse product line has several versions of each of the above, tailored to your specific packaging requirements. We offer our signature "NIPLESS" wrapper dispenser in any of our system configurations.
Flue Wall Cleaning Machine
Specialized machinery designed for efficient and thorough cleaning of flue walls in industrial furnaces and kilns.
Flue Wall Straightening Machine
Precision equipment for straightening and aligning flue walls to ensure optimal performance and longevity of furnace systems.
Flue Wall Building Machine
Advanced machinery for constructing and rebuilding flue walls with precision and efficiency in industrial settings.
Flue Wall Maintenance Platform
Specialized platforms and equipment designed to provide safe and efficient access for flue wall maintenance operations.
Carbon Electrode Handling and Cleaning Systems
For carbon producers who provide electrodes for electric arc furnaces (EAF), we provide a complete line of electrode handling and cleaning systems.
Our systems include:
- Roller and chain type conveyors specifically suited to the environment of the carbon plant
- Sagger can load/ unload machines
- Electrode brush type and scraper type cleaning systems
- Load/ Unload of carbon electrode machining centers
- Upenders/ Downenders
- End Facing Machines
- Weigh stations and labelling stations
- Bundle formation and strapping stations
Copper, Nickel and Cobalt Stripping Systems
For electrolytic refineries for Copper, Nickel, Cobalt and Zinc, we provide a complete line of electrode (anode/ cathode) handling and processing systems.
Our systems include:
- Chain conveyors
- Transfer Cars
- Robotic pick and place
- Rinse stations, Acid wash stations
- High pressure wash stations
- Shot blast stations
- Rotary and linear type stripping systems to remove metal from cathodes
- Rotary and linear type anode preparation stations (manual and automatic)
- Vision inspection stations to analyse quality of harvested metal and condition of cathodes
- Sheet stacking, labelling and strapping equipment
- Integrated software for harvesting schedule
- Fully integrated controls system
Coil Handling and Packaging Systems
For coil producers, we provide a complete range of mechanized, semi-automatic and fully automatic coil handling and packaging equipment.
Including the following:
- Coil Cars – ID/OD
- Conveyors
- Upenders
- Turnstiles
- Manipulators
- Weigh Scales
- Stretch Packaging
- Kraft Packaging
- Palletizing – Eye horizontal/ Eye vertical
- Strapping – around bilge and through the eye
Automated Bridge and Gantry Cranes
As part of a plant wide material handling system or as a standalone machine, we provide our clients with automatic and semi-automatic cranes for their mission critical production processes. These cranes are rated for intense 24/7 service.
Fiberglass Bagging Systems
We supply fiberglass batt stackers, fiberglass balers, fiberglass choppers and folders to the insulation industry including all attendant conveying and handling systems. Please contact us for your specific fiberglass handling and processing needs.