Kingfisher Industrial Ltd

Kingfisher has launched K-PIPE WRP, a polymer lined high density polyethylene (PE-HD) abrasion resistant piping system that is ideal for movement of liquids, sludge and slurry containing abrasive media and contaminants.

Having saved primary manufacturing industries millions of pounds of expenditure through the introduction of bespoke materials handling solutions used to handle abrasive and hard to handle minerals and fuels, total solution provider Kingfisher Industrial are exhibiting at this year’s RWM 2012.

With a record number of exhibitors and visitors attending from all over the world, Hillhead 2012 was a success for the organisers and likewise Kingfisher Industrial. Albeit the weather varied from one extreme to the next in terms of sunshine and rain storms it didn’t deter the visitors from experiencing new and innovative equipment, technologies and services being offered by international exhibitors.

Wear resulting from sliding abrasion and impact, is a constant problem across all quarrying plant involved in feeding, conveying and storage of minerals, semi and finished products. It is not a constant, though, in terms of its effects, occurring to varying degrees in different parts of the plant. In a hopper, for example, the sloping section at the discharge chute takes both impact and sliding abrasion, leading to higher wear rates than those experienced on the vertical hopper sides.

Wear protection is one of the key technologies in helping operators meet the requirements for reliable, efficient operation of equipment in the power generation industry. However, the process involves much more than the application of hard metal deposits onto process equipment using traditional welding methods.

The ongoing benefits to production and reliability of a well specified and designed wear protection system are being demonstrated at Lafarge’s super quarry at Mountsorrel in Quorn, Leicestershire. Five years ago, Kingfisher Industrial provided the combination of its K-BAS, cast basalt, and K-ALOX ceramic linings to the sides and discharge sections of a number of storage bins at the quarry. The installation was recently inspected as part of Kingfisher’s ten-year warranty, and was found to have negligible levels of wear, despite having handled over 15-million tonnes of the hardest type of granite over the previous 5-year period.

Despite the reduction in its use in western countries, coal is still a major fuel worldwide, accounting, together with iron ore, for the majority of ocean-going bulk freight. This global trade poses a major challenge to shippers in handling the various sizes, types and blends of coal, and also in coping with the abrasive characteristics of the fossil fuel. The problem is that coal is high in silica, a mineral that causes erosion and wear, in the plant and equipment used to process it. In the pressurised world of bulk carriers, where coal is handled in quantities of millions- of- tonnes per year, the ramifications of this problem can be very serious, resulting in extended ship layovers if not addressed. Consequently, it makes economic sense to take appropriate measures to protect against the sliding friction and impacts that cause wear.

Kingfisher Industrial is helping process companies across all industry sectors to get more life from their plants, reduce maintenance and improve productivity. The company has published a series of industry- specific brochures that highlight the benefits of employing wear protection to new or existing plant, giving users 10- year or even 20- year life from their installations.

The food and beverage industry is under constant pressure to increase productivity and maintain standards of manufacture; at the same time as achieving compliance with increasingly stringent legislation. In order to achieve demanding targets, producers are investing in proven technologies that increase production output by eliminating the reactive costs associated with plant repair and downtime.

Kingfisher Industrial, has just passed its annual integrated management system (IMS) audit with flying colours, maintaining its registration to three key management standards: ISO 9001:2008, ISO14001:2004 and OHSAS18001:2007 that underpin the company’s quality and environmental commitments to customers.

The arduous conditions encountered in quarrying applications cause many types of plant and equipment to degrade and fail prematurely. One of the major reasons for these failures is abrasion.

Kingfisher Industrial, a UK leader in wear protection technology, is celebrating the achievement of its employee, Richard Onions, in winning the Engineering Apprenticeship Achiever of the year award from the NEW (North East Worcestershire) group of colleges. With campuses at Bromsgrove and Redditch, NEW College has been recognised as an outstanding “Beacon” institution, and is notable for its successful apprenticeship school, which has been rated by Ofsted as Grade 1 (outstanding).

Self discharging bulk carriers are a key component in the global commodity boom, providing fast unloading and quick turnaround to meet increasing market demands, at the same time maximising ROI for vessel operators. However, the extremely demanding operating pressures under which the carriers operate means that the benefits they provide are only sustainable if the bulk operator takes measures to counteract the detrimental effects of bulk cargoes that can be very dense, corrosive and abrasive.

The global demand for animal feeds has never been higher, fuelled by increasing heavy consumption of meat in China and wealthy countries in the ASEAN block. This demand means that continuity of supply is all important placing stress all along the supply chain, from processing and transferring of raw materials and finished product in animal feed plants, to handling, conveying and storing the product at ports for onward shipping.

Kingfisher Industrial has succeeded in providing a ceramic liner wear protection solution to a large coal fired power station, to replace two competitive systems that failed. The Kingfisher solution, the company’s K-ZAS Ceramic Liner system is effectively handling the severe abrasion and corrosion resulting from conveying hot coarse clinker to an ash reception hopper.

Wear protection - the process of coating or lining process plant and equipment, such as cyclones, valves, bunkers, pipework, chutes (et al), with ceramics, metallics or polymers to extend their life, - is under-employed in the UK. This is resulting in unnecessary maintenance costs and lost production time running into millions of pounds per annum for British bulk handling, extraction and recycling industries.

Kingfisher Industrial has concluded an agency agreement with ConveyorTek Ltd, for the Northern Irish based company to provide Kingfisher’s leading wear protection solutions for process plant across the Irish mainland. ConveyorTek is developing into one of the most innovative and successful companies in its field: designing, servicing and supplying conveyor systems and components - to process industries in both the UK and Ireland.