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Contact: Paul Fears
E-mail: [email protected]
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12 Custom Designed Bunting Plate Magnets for Italy
Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd has designed, manufactured and shipped 12 large and
custom designed Self-Cleaning Plate Magnets to a customer in Italy for a project in
Indonesia. The export order was valued at over £50,000 and was the result of close
cooperation between the Bunting Europe engineering team based in Berkhamsted in
the UK and the Italian customer’s engineers.
Photograph 1 - Plate Magnets boxed and ready for shipment to Italy
Plate Magnets are a simple form of Magnetic Separator with blocks of magnets
magnetically arranged inside a rugged stainless steel fabricated housing to project a
magnetic field on the flat surface of the plate. The projected magnetic field captures
both fine ferrous contamination and larger pieces of tramp ferrous metal from various
types of free flowing material (including powdery, moist, lumpy, and abrasive products
through to large material that might choke, bridge, or cause rapid wear in Magnetic
Cartridge or Tube based separators).
For the Italian project, the objective was to remove tramp ferrous metal contamination
from tobacco to protect damage to delicate and expensive cutter blades. The product
flow was poor with a high moisture content and so a Plate Magnet was the best suited
design of Magnetic Separator for the application.
Due to specific application
requirements, the Plate Magnet was custom designed to produce a specific shape and
intensity of magnetic field. Each Plate Magnet had a face of 600mm by 130mm with a
depth of 45mm and weighed approx. 50kgs. These were the largest Plate Magnets
manufactured in the UK by Bunting. The custom design, using high-energy rare earth
magnets, meant that a peak magnetic field of over 10,000 gauss was produced on the
surface, which was flat as recommended for low density product flows, inverted
installations and sanitary applications.
The Plate Magnets were positioned inside chutes and due to the size and weight of
each unit, the customer required each one to be self-cleaning, whereby any captured
metal would be automatically removed and discarded.
The self-cleaning design
requires a counter plate to be placed against the surface of the Plate Magnet. During
the self-cleaning process, both the counter plate and the main body of the Plate Magnet
is pulled away from the chute then the counter plate is pulled away from the main body.
Any magnetically entrapped material is held against the counter plate and becomes
demagnetized as the Plate Magnet moves away allowing the ferrous material to fall
away into a discharge collection area.
The 12 identical Plate Magnets were designed, manufactured and shipped within 9
weeks. The size, weight and magnetic strength of each Plate Magnet dictated that each
unit had to be packed separately for shipment to Italy.
Photograph 2 – 12 Plate Magnets lined up ready for shipment
Jake Hall, Bunting’s Export Sales Manager, explained how Bunting secured the order.
“Being flexible and having the engineering capabilities in Europe to custom design the
Plate Magnet for the client was vitally important.
Ultimately, that was the deciding
factor.”
Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd is a major UK exporter of Magnetic Separation
equipment and Magnets with customers located globally.
For more information on the products or application mentioned in this case history
please contact Paul Fears on 07909 103789 or [email protected] or visit
www.buntingeurope.com or www.magneticseparation.co.
Northbridge Road
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
HP4 1EH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 875081