Conveyor systems keep sugar flowing

At the Cantley site, Robson's task was to provide a new bulk outloading facility, complete with the steel-framed building to house it and a dedicated tanker access road.

Robson Handling has installed conveyor systems at British Sugar's two processing plants in Norfolk.

The company has provided a line to the new screening and bagging plant, incorporating 19 screw conveyors, an elevator and two enclosed, low-friction conveyors to Robson's own Airglide design.

The Airglides transfer granulated sugar at from the existing screening area inside tubular gantries, which are mounted on two transfer towers.

The work also called for modifications to the existing screen and magnet in the bulk outloading area and provision of new platforming for personnel access.

At the Cantley site, Robson's task was to provide a new bulk outloading facility, complete with the steel-framed building to house it and a dedicated tanker access road.

The system accepts sugar from the existing export elevator via a new screw conveyor and transports it on a gantry-mounted Airglide belt conveyor to an elevator in the new outloading building.

Here, the sugar is lifted to the top floor and discharged through a screen, magnet, metal-check and sampler into a 65-tonne capacity storage bin mounted on load cells.

It is dispensed from the bin by a pneumatic slide valve through a bellows into the tanker waiting on the weighbridge below.

The system can handle up to 100 tonnes an hour, equivalent to 4000 tonnes in a full working week.

In total the Wissington and Cantley contracts are valued at more than GBP5 million.

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