Industrial Case Studies

Taskmaster^® Chip Destruction System Solves Black Market Chips Problem - A major "chip" manufacturer had a security problem. Truck loads of valuable chips were exposed to pilferage. Each drum of chips was worth more than it's weight in gold making it a tempting target. As a result, substandard chips were showing up on the black market. A solution was needed urgently. That's when the company turned to Franklin Miller Inc for a solution. Read More about Taskmaster Chip Destruction.

Research Institute Cuts Waste Problem - The Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama conducts basic research for medical, environmental and engineering companies. The institute was faced with major waste management and disposal problems. The laboratories in the facility produces copious amounts of waste, much of it made of plastic and medical packaging materials. To be incorporated into landfills, the waste needed to be reduced to an unrecognizable state. Read More about this case study here.

Taskmaster^® TM8500 - Shreds Plastic With Ease - A major chemical company had a problem with safe disposal of contaminated plastic trays. The plastic trays needed to be cleaned and separated from the contaminated material, then shredded to a size that could be easily disposed of. The plastic trays were washed and separated from the hazardous material, the cleaned plastic is shredded to the required size in the Taskmaster TM8500 Shredder. Read More about the Taskmaster TM8500 case study.

Production Block Removed By Pipeline Delumper^® - Repeated plugging of pipelines and pumping systems forced frequent and costly shutdowns for clean-out in the plant of a major chemical manufacturer. Product lumps in the liquid stream built up in the systems, and their clean-out, a difficult and cumbersome job, brought about a considerable amount of lost production time. Read More about the Pipeline Delumper application.

Crusher Takes Its Lumps, Minimizes Elbow Grease - CCP, Inc., a custom manufacturer of over 1000 private label formulations for the cosmetics industry, had a costly production bottleneck. In the production process, the material is milled to 20 to 200 mesh and re-blended. Incoming material, received in bulk bags or drums, needed to be conditioned to remove agglomerated cakes or lumps. Read More about the Delumper Crusher application here.

Delumper^® Chews Up Meat Products Pumping Problem - Maxton Meat Processors, Inc. in Maxton, NC, was experiencing a major pumping problem of their difficult to transport meat products. As part of their process, Maxton employed a pumping system to transport the meat solids at 200 psi. The chicken parts mixed with powders and oils had a tendency to lump up, plugging their pipeline system, preventing the material from being pumped through the system pipes before further processing. Their pumps were clogging and bridging was occurring within the pipeline system. Read More about the Delumper application.

Cutting Problem Solids Down to Size - A mineral processing plant in Pennsylvania needed a better way to process large batches of problematic minerals. The contents from 3,200 pound super sacks were placed on a conveyor and then manually hammered to crush them, a labor intensive operation. Adding to the problems, the minerals were lumpy and rock- solid after spending months on a boat from China. The operation was slow and hazardous, labor costs were high and particle size varied widely. Read More about this Delumper case study.

Vulcanator^® Reduces Rubber Bales and Processing Time - A manufacturer of surgical gloves had a problem in establishing a new production line to meet their capacity requirements and quality standards. The major raw ingredient in surgical gloves, natural rubber, was received in the form of full 75 lb. bales of raw rubber. The first step in the process was to reduce the bales to a small size, since dissolving of the full rubber bales would take an unacceptably long amount of time and be very costly. Read More about the Vulcanator solution.

Delumper^® LP Protects System from Tramp metal - Delumper 1075LP handle non-ferrous objects and metal bolts A paper products manufacturer has used the Delumper 1075LP in an unusual application on an expensive process line. Read More about the Delumper LP application.

Supreme^TM Roll Mill reduces glass particles while controlling dust - Problem: A manufacturer needed a mill that could finely reduce highly abrasive glass beads without creating excessive fines and while controlling dust.. Solution: After trying their material on a test unit at the factory they found the performance and output to be just what they were looking for. Read More about this Supreme Roll Mill application.

Pipeline Delumper^® - Problem solver for petrochemical plant - This 24" PIPELINE Delumper(r) was design to handle 84,000 lbs/hr of polypropylene for a major petro-chemical company. Read More about the Pipeline Delumper.

Taskmaster^® Shredder Aids Remediation - Shredder reduces large bulk - The powerful Taskmaster Shredder is designed to shred solid waste in a broad range of applications with minimal maintenance. The TM2300 line of Taskmaster Shredders successfully reduces bulk up to 80%. Read More about the Taskmaster shredding application.