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SE Davis invests in mobile centrifuge

As the waves from the credit crunch continue to batter quarrying, Redditch-based contractor SE Davis is seeking to diversify further into CDE waste processing by buying its own mobile centrifuge for dealing with sludge.

As quarrying contracts dry up – H&C Dickie went into administration last week after losing 80% of its work in three months – the market for crushing and screening services in primary aggregate processing is dwindling and supply is at over capacity.

SE Davis told MQR today that it was seeking to mitigate any effects of the downturn by buying further into waste processing, which is increasingly being seen as a haven to weather the economic storm’s effects on quarrying.

Already offering aggregate washing plant for hire, the family business has now invested in an artic trailer-mounted centrifuge from Italian manufacturer Baioni for dealing with sludge from the aggregate washing process.

The past couple of days the company has been playing host to a raft of potential new clients including local authority representatives and private sector managers to demonstrate its new kit.

A few technical facts about the kit
The model is a Baioni 65L centrifuge capable of 18tph of dry solids and 100lph hydraulic capacity depending on solids content in the flow.

It is taking 46 cubic metres an hour of unthickend flow at -74 microns and is producing dry solids at 3.5tonnes an hour.

The mobile unit housing the centrifuge was designed by Manver Engineering in conjunction with SE Davis

 
 

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