Materials washing specialist
The 21-23 July 2015 event in Bundaberg, Queensland will take place at a site operated by Earth Commodities. Visitors will be given the opportunity to see the plant in action as well as meet with members of the CDE team in Australia and those based further afield who are flying in for the showpiece.
“This is the second demonstration event we have hosted in Australia following a similar event at Tooperang Quarry, Adelaide in December 2013, where we have also installed a glass sand washing plant,” explains Terry Ashby, CDE regional director, Australia. “The first plant supplies glass sands to the Owens Illinois (O-I) wine bottle production facility in Adelaide and it was the success of this project that provided the basis for us being awarded the contract with Earth Commodities in Bundaberg.”
After completion of the project at Tooperang Quarry, CDE were awarded preferred supplier status with O-I to support future sand processing requirements and at the time David Abela, procurement director, O-I, said: “The achievement of a consistent sand specification at Tooperang Quarry in accordance with our requirements proves CDE’s silica sand processing capabilities. CDE also delivered this project in a very professional manner through its project management system and it is for this reason that we will continue to work with CDE to investigate glass sand supply opportunities in other parts of Australia.”
The award of the contract for the Earth Commodities plant was a direct result of this new relationship with O-I and the plant includes a wide range of equipment from the CDE product portfolio. This includes the M2500 mobile washing plant with integrated CFCU (Counter Flow Classification Unit), high frequency screens, EvoWash sand washing plant, spirals, attrition cells and a variety of transfer and stockpile conveyors.
Speaking about the new installation, Darren Wardle, of Earth Commodities, said: “To date we have been very pleased with the introduction of the new CDE plant, and we have been very pleased with the professional manner in which the CDE personnel have delivered this project overall. The plant itself is now producing seven products in one pass at an in feed rate of approximately 130 tonnes per hour which is exactly what we set out to achieve. The specification of all products delivered through the plant are meeting the required targets that we put forth to CDE in the design phase of the project and we have now begun to service our market with these new products with market feedback to date being positive all round.
“The real upshot here for our business, however, is efficiency, we are currently utilising the same number of employees to run the new CDE plant as we were previously to run the old plant at 25 tonnes per hour with three product splits. That, along with the ability to target new markets on and offshore, as well as service our existing contracts, puts our business in a positive space moving forward.”
CDE will be represented at the event in Bundaberg by Terry Ashby (regional director, CDE Australia), Paul Stevens (business development manager, CDE Australia), Enda Ivanoff (sales director, CDE Global), Chris McKeown (technical department manager, CDE Global), Brian McCullough (head of business performance, CDE Global) and Kevin Vallelly (product development manager, CDE Global).
