Free wear-protection clinics
Kingfisher launch series of wear-protection clinics to help process industries reduce maintenance costs
KINGFISHER Industrial, specialists in industrial wear protection, are holding a series of free clinics to help companies in the process markets to achieve more wear life from their plants and benefit from improved return on investment.
The clinics will demonstrate how to reduce maintenance costs by eliminating the need for the constant repair and replacement of plant through the use of proven technologies designed to combat, abrasion, erosion and corrosion.
Kingfisher have calculated that, on average, users of their wear-protection systems benefit by a factor of five times their initial outlay, with many installations providing wear life of up to 20 years following appropriate wear treatment.
At the clinics, which will be held onsite at Kingfisher’s headquarters or at third party venues, experts from Kingfisher will address specific wear-protection problems and provide cost-effective solutions.
‘Wear protection is critically under-employed in the UK, and this is resulting in unnecessary maintenance costs and lost production time running into millions of pounds per annum for British bulk handling, extraction and recycling industries,’ said Kingfisher’s managing director, John Connolly.
‘With our free clinics, we aim to address this problem, demonstrating to interested companies, on a no-obligation basis, solutions that can help them get more from their businesses, by achieving considerable reductions in maintenance costs, in turn leading to improved return on investment.
‘One of the key points that we want to get across at our clinics is that wear protection can be employed at any time in the life of a process system, so users do not have to throw away their existing plant and start again.
‘We also want to educate attendees to our clinics of the subsidiary benefits of wear protection. For example, as well as protecting against wear and extending plant life, the low-friction nature of our wear-protection lining material reduces energy usage and increases production, by allowing a greater volume of material to be throughput.’
Kingfisher are inviting applications for their wear clinics from all areas of the process sector, including quarrying, cement and recycling. Companies interested in arranging a clinic should contact John Connolly on tel: (01384) 410777; or via email using the contact form below.
