Centreline Shopfitters has invested about £100,000 upgrading dust extraction equipment at its Basildon premises, which it moved to six months ago to cope with growing demand.
Dust Pollution Systems sited a new through-flow next to the original filter assembly so the two could run in tandem. It also installed an additional 40hp fan set to improve the extraction performance.
The next phase provided Centreline with a way of automating use of off-cuts and woodwaste for heating purposes. The original filter unit was removed and re-sited on top of a 30m2 silo and a chipper unit installed to deal with the problem of off-cuts returned to site after each shopfitting job.
The chipper connects to the extraction system and then to the silo, which feeds the furnace, giving an output of 300kW, transferred directly to a heat exchanger to produce 10,000cfm of heated air for the factory during winter.
Installation work had to take place on a small footprint to allow space for the building of a much-needed warehouse.
