Emission control experience benefits UK customers

Four major UK-based emission control contracts during the past twelve months have resulted from AirProtekt experience gained on overseas air pollution control projects

Two of the contracts, which involved supplying customised Regenerative Thermal Oxidation (RTO) systems have already been installed and commissioned.

AirProtekt has equipped the SGL Technic carbon fibre manufacturing facility in Muir of Ord, near Inverness, with a combined RTO system and a selective catalytic reduction system to remove hydrogen cyanide contaminants.

The second RTO system was supplied to the Johnson Controls Wednesbury facility in the West Midlands, which produces car seats for major automotive vehicle manufacturers such as BMW, Mini and Range Rover.

The RTO equipment was tailored to remove naphtha and other volatile organic waste products from the processing of the polyurethane foam at the West Midlands plant.

The two other major contracts wins focus on supplying Honeycat catalytic oxidation systems featuring efficient platinum group metal catalysts.

One Honeycat catalytic oxidation system is currently being installed at a coated laminate film manufacturing facility in Basildon, Essex, operated by Neschen Coatings, which was formerly Seal (UK).

The second Honeycat catalytic oxidation contract is being fitted at the Permali Gloucester manufacturing plant where Permaglass composite materials are produced.

For all the projects AirProtekt provided a total package solution that embraced process assessment, project design, supply of the air pollution equipment, installation and commissioning.

The air pollution specialist also provides a complete after sales service.

"We have had a good year in terms of extending our UK user installed base.

Ironically it has been the knowledge we have gained working on overseas air pollution projects that has given our UK sales drive a boost" commented Trevor Lawton, the AirProtekt managing director: "We find that most manufacturing groups operate facilities worldwide and prefer to implement air pollution control systems and strategies that can be replicated at their sister sites around the globe.

For example, AirProtekt is the sole UK distributor of Regenerative Thermal Oxidisers for Lufttechnik Bayreuth (LTB) of Germany.

The large LTB installed base across Europe totals more than 100 RTO systems serving a diverse range of manufacturing industries.

The huge amount of application knowledge we have gained working with LTB is certainly paying dividends for many of our UK customers".

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