Success Story: Silo Cleaning Services for Rio Tinto

The Challenge: Clean Silos, No Entry

At both the Boron and Wilmington facilities, ACT is tasked with silo cleaning for Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto is one of the industry’s leaders in workplace safety, investing millions each year to keep its facilities operating with the safest working techniques available. As part of that commitment, Rio Tinto has limited confined space entry across many of its plants — and that includes silos. The material buildup still has to come out; a person just can’t go in after it.

The Answer: The Whip

That’s where ACT’s specialty Whip comes in — a machine whose sole purpose is cleaning silos. The Whip removes built-up material from inside the silo without a human ever entering it, taking the most dangerous part of the job off the table entirely.

• No confined space entry — the Whip works the silo interior from outside
• Built-up material removed and product flow restored
• Fully compliant with Rio Tinto’s strict safety standards

The Result

Product keeps flowing at two Rio Tinto facilities while the strictest safety standards in the industry stay intact. When a customer raises the bar on safety, the right equipment — and a crew that knows how to use it — means clean silos don’t have to come at anyone’s risk.