After finding us at MACH this year, Surrey based manufacturer Kiyo Engineering have invested in a compact swarf briquetting machine.
This customer was looking to reduce their environmental impact, save swarf storage space, reclaim coolant & boost their scrap metal recycling revenue.
The space and height restrictions Kiyo had for the location of the system, not only meant a small machine option was required, but also a way of filling it. We approached our friends at LNS to work collaboratively with us in designing something specific for ease of loading in the low, narrow space.
The bespoke swarf system comprises of a low loading hopper and a unique designed swarf-feed conveyor from LNS to carry the aluminium chips into the compact iSwarf 50 unit for briquetting.
The hopper / conveyor unit designed with LNS, works specifically to feed swarf into any of the Hocker Polytechnik iSwarf range of briquette machines that J&S Engineering exclusively supply in the UK. It can therefore be fitted across the size range including the bigger machines with a larger throughput.
By installing this system, Kiyo are receiving significant cost benefits from the sustainability credentials of this system:
- reduced their swarf chip volume by up to 90% - saving themselves space on the storage of the swarf skips as well as costs for the quantity of skips needed.
- money saved from the reclamation of the coolant when the chips are pressed into the briquettes
- increased value for the briquetted scrap aluminium
In addition, this system is very time efficient as multiple swarf bins can be emptied easily into the 500 litre capacity hopper.
This conveyor and briquetting machine set up is capable of automatically processing between 50 and 60 kilos of aluminium swarf an hour.
