SUGAR
Mill rolls, shafts and gearing stripped, machined, hard surfaced, reassembled and coated in the one complex, with breakdown response through the crushing season.
MILL COMPONENTS, ONE BUILDING
We support the region's sugar mills through crushing season and the maintenance window, with mill shutdowns, breakdown response and the manufacture and repair of milling components, rolls, shafts and gearing.
Fabrication, machining, fitting and painting sit under one roof, so a component is stripped, assessed, measured, repaired, reassembled and coated without leaving the complex or waiting on an outside trade. Nothing goes back together on assumption, every part is measured and recorded first.
Where a surface is worn rather than broken, ABClad, our patented hard surfacing process, reclaims it instead of replacing the part, and the computerised gas fired oven stress relieves the assembly after heavy welding.
PLANT FOR ROLLS, SHAFTS AND GEARING
CNC vertical borer
5 m diameter, 18 t tableTwin post vertical borer
3.5 m diameter, 18 t tableCNC lathes
Workpieces over 40 tGear cutting
Internal and external gears to 5.5 m diameterGas fired oven
6.5 by 5.5 by 2.7 m high, to 800 °CWear reclamation
ABClad hard surfacing, submerged arc, TIG and MIGFinishing
Blasted and coated in the same building before dispatchTurnaround
All repairs in house, 24/7, seven departments
CREWS AT THE MILL, TRANSPORT IN BETWEEN
Sugar mills are named work for our Field Division, alongside draglines and power stations. We supply shutdown and project crews, and under Queensland labour hire licence LHL-01983-S5B8T we supply planners, supervisors, relief personnel and trades where you need people rather than a package.
Our transport division moves the component both ways, 24/7, with low loaders to 50 tonnes, heavy rigid tilt trays, prime movers on flat and drop deck trailers, and Franna cranes for the lift at either end.
The Paget complex takes dimensional loads to 10 m wide, 10 m high and 35 m long, so an outsize mill assembly comes through the door in one piece.
RELATED WORK
Machining
A 5 m CNC vertical borer and lathes taking workpieces over 40 t handle roll shells, shafts and journals.
OpenFitting
Every component is cleaned, stripped, assessed, measured and recorded before anyone decides on repair, replacement or refurbishment.
OpenSteel Fabrication & Welding
ABClad, our patented hard surfacing process, reclaims a worn surface instead of replacing the component.
OpenIndustrial Painting
Blasting and protective coatings sit in the same building, so a repaired component leaves finished rather than waiting on an outside trade.
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