Engineering services

What this service covers

The design bench behind everything ACT installs: turnkey project design and specification, system and component proposals, EPC services, structural design for chutes and supports, and integration engineering when new equipment has to live inside an old plant. Backed by an 18,000 sq/ft fabrication facility, so designs are drawn by people who also have to build them.

Typical engagements

• Transfer point redesigns that end chronic spillage, dust and belt damage at the source.
• Conveyor modifications — new drives, capacity changes, route changes, structure and guarding.
• Dust system design — collection, suppression and ventilation engineered as one system.
• Silo and vessel flow — outlet geometry, flow aids and level detection working together.

Engagements and what you walk away with

How a project runs

• 1. Site visit — measure the real plant, not the 1987 drawings.
• 2. Design review with your team — maintenance reality beats theoretical elegance.
• 3. Fabrication — in-house, so the designer and the welder argue in the same building.
• 4. Install and commission — same company, one throat to choke.

What to have ready

• The problem, not the solution — “this transfer plugs” beats “quote me a chute”
• Drawings and data if they exist — belt speeds, tonnages, materials
• Constraints — outage windows, clearances, budget reality

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