(ACS) has appointed Mideco as ACS representative in Victoria, and Minspec as representative in Western Australia. These companies will provide local assistance in the installation and servicing of ACS engineered solutions.
Both are well established companies that have been involved with dust and spillage issues over many years. Mideco's history goes back some 50 years, while Minspec, a respected WA mining equipment supplier, has a shorter history.
Established last year to provide clean bulk solids handing solutions to the coal-fired power and primary metals industries in Australia and the Pacific, ACS has experienced good local acceptance, especially with the company's unique engineer, procure, construct (EPC) approach to spillage, dust, and fume control.
According to ACS general manager Greg Albert, the company delivers solutions for safely and cost-effectively conveying materials within process plants to ensure that assets are protected, risk is reduced, plants operate more efficiently and that the workers in these plants function in a healthy environment.
Mr Albert highlighted the company's unique approach to dust and spillage control, noting that ACS had developed a number of proprietary processes and technologies.
This includes Dustless Transfer, an innovative dust control system for materials handling conveyors, Smart Chute, a technology program used to ensure smooth material flow on conveyors, and Dust Analyst rational analysis, a precise method for determining airflow requirements in dust control systems.
ACS provides a single source responsibility and guarantees results in measured dust loading of mg/m3 time weighted average (over an eight hour period in the workspace).
ACS has routinely reduced dust levels from as high as 30mg/m3 to 0.08mg/m3 and as low as 0.03mg/m3 - well under the 1/20th of the allowable level of 2mg/m3 time weighted average over an eight hour period.