Month: September 2020

WEKA Industrial Services was called to Claix by a customer from France for the dismantling and relocation of an evaporation plant with thermal vapor recompression. Within 10 days, the entire system was dismantled brought out of the production building.

Project Brief

A customer from France has acquired a 7-stage evaporator plant with thermal vapor recompression from a large French dairy company. For this project, we were commissioned to professionally dismantle the entire system in a way that it can be reinstalled again and to bring the equipment out of the production facility.

Equipment to be Dismantled

For this project, the entire evaporation plant including pumps, valves and piping had to be dismantled. Furthermore, a CIP system (cleaning in place) and control system belonging to the system were to be dismantled and taken out of the production facility.

Our team was given a relatively tight schedule for this task. In plain language, this means that we should have dismantled the entire system within 8 days so that the seven stages of the evaporator could be lifted out of the building through the roof with a crane. This was a particular challenge for a plant of this size, especially since the dismantling should be documented in a way that the future owner could be able to rebuilt the entire system without our help.

In summary, the following was dismantled:

• Opening of the roof for crane work
• Dismantling of the seven-stage evaporation plant including pumps, piping and valves
• Disassembly of the operating platforms
• Dismantling a CIP system
• Dismantling of the control for the evaporation plant / CIP plant
• Gutting the production space
• Dismantling company
• Dismantling a Laguilharre evaporation plant

Equipment used for dismantling

Little heavy equipment was used to dismantle and deploy this evaporator. The reason was the scarce space available in the production building. Only the individual stages of the plant were pulled out with the help of a crane and placed on the floor outside the building with a second (smaller) auxiliary crane.

• Chain hoist 800 kg
• Chain hoist 3000 kg
• Chain hoist 5000 kg
• Crane with a load capacity of 120 tons
• Crane with a load capacity of 25 tons
• Fall protection net and fall protection harness
• Angle grinder: 125 mm, 150 mm, 230 mm
• Various tools

Manpower and Duration of the Project

4 of our dismantling specialists were permanently employed on this project. The project took 40 days from the start of the dismantling of the systems to the deployment of all system parts.

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WEKA Industrial Services was assigned to dismantle a chocolate processing line for a customer from Belgium. The equipment had to be dismantled, packed and loaded onto trucks. Among other machines, conches weighing up to 16,000 kg were dismantled in this project.

Project Brief

A customer from Belgium has bought a complete department for processing chocolate from the traditional company Hachez in Bremen, Germany. Our task: professional dismantling including electrical dismantling, taking the equipment out of the building, packaging and loading of all the machines for transport to Mexico. Some of the machines (two melangeurs) should be prepared for transport to Belgium.

Machines to be dismantled

During this project, numerous machines for chocolate processing had to be dismantled. These included various refine rollers from Bühler and conches made by Thuet. The systems with the highest total weight were around 16 tons.

The dismantling was characterized by limited space, which made maneuverability, especially with the large conches, a particular challenge. In addition, the floor covering consisted of a soft building material, so that 3 mm thick metal sheets had to be placed under the conches during the take-out process, in order not to damage or deform the floor covering.

The following systems and machines were dismantled in the course of the project:

• 8 pcs. Conches manufactured by Thouet
• 1 pc. Conche manufactured by Bindler & Schneider (approx. 15-20 tons total weight)
• 1 pc. Conche manufactured by Petzholdt
• 4 pcs. Five-Roll Refiner manufactured by Bühler
• 1 pc. Chocolate mixer from Beetz
• 1 pc. Two-roll refiner from Bühler
• 2 pcs. Mills from Bühler
• 3 pcs. melangeurs from Carle & Montanari
• Complete stainless steel belt transport system for chocolate mass
• All electrical cabinets associated to the production line

Equipment used for Dismantling

Due to the high deadweight of the individual machines and the risk that the flooring of the factory could be damaged if the machines were rolled over the floor without further precautions, we had to guarantee a smooth process with the appropriate material and equipment. In particular, the following material was used.

• 18 to forklift including fork extension
• 1.5 to forklift truck
• 6 pieces of metal plates with the dimensions 100 cm x 150 cm and a thickness of 3 mm
• 31 euro pallets
• 12 pieces of squared timber with a cross-section of 10 cm x 10 cm
• 5 to cable hoist puller
• 1.5 to cable hoist puller
• 3 to chain hoist
• 800 kg chain hoist
• 8 pcs. heavy-duty castors
• 2 pallet trucks
• Various tools such as Angle grinder, welding machine, drills etc.

Manpower and Duration of the Project

On average, 4 of our dismantling specialists were permanently employed on this project, 2 electricians and 2 mechanics. From the start of the dismantling of the systems to the final loading, the project took 40 days.

Contact us!

Do you have a similar project in the pipeline as the one described here? Are you relocating a machine or even your entire production facility to another location? Then please contact us. You can call at any time, write an EMAIL or send us an inquiry using our contact form. We will contact you immediately and talk about your project together – of course, free of charge and without obligation!

Click HERE to get to our contact form.