A day gained
17th January 2017

Halsall Glass has said that it has added a day’s production per week to its schedule through efficiency savings after purchasing a new straight-line edger and sedimentor from BOHLE.

“It gives us back around one day per week in time we would have otherwise been losing cleaning out machinery”, said Rob Halsall, Managing Director, Halsall Glass.

“Time to clean equipment, clean tanks and then skip the waste soon adds up if you’re doing any sort of volume. You don’t necessarily see it until you realise the time savings and efficiencies you can make. “It allows us to keep running. We don’t have to stop and that gives us a lot more flexibility production and schedule planning – it eliminates a potential log jam.”

Suitable for elementary to chain-linked, double-sided straight line edgers, Bohle manufactures and supplies three different sedimentors, the 2.4, which has a filling quantity of 2100 litres, the 1.0, (1,000 litres) and the 0.3, which has a filling capacity of 320 litres.

Dave Broxton, Managing Director, Bohle added: “Time lost in downtime, machinery cleaning, cleaning of water tanks and the costs of waste water disposal contaminated with glass particles in glass processing can run into the thousands of pounds each year. Glass processors could increase capacity, save thousands and extend the life of machinery and tooling simply by installing sedimentors to processing lines.”

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