According to the Craft Brewers Benchmark Report by manufacturing performance software company OFS, the malt industry’s average production time sits at about 45 percent of its full potential due to inefficiencies in brewing production line operations.2 This industry snapshot reveals that the booming industry is...
Did you know that the average Australian home uses about 14 cubic metres of structural pine? According to Simon Gatt, Resources Manager at Associated Kiln Driers (AKD), this wood stores carbon for the duration of the structure’s lifetime, making timber a valuable renewable resource with...
Various environmental factors on outdoor sites can affect the process of power transmission, including extreme temperature ranges, coarse dust particles, and strong vibrational impact. Most of the time, these obstacles are inevitable, so ensuring efficient maintenance and change-over producers is crucial to minimising costly downtime. According...
As far as bearings go, the Timken® Solid-Block Housed units are famous in heavy industry, renowned for their seemingly unbreakable solid cast steel housing and ease of installation. However, Senior Service Engineer for Timken Australia, Brad Kemp wants to remind readers that these are highly specialised products, which do...
The belt is arguably the most understated worker of the mining industry, according to CBC’s Steve Hittmann. The Gates® PowerGrip™ GT4™ is the latest in materials science for belt design. “The belt is made from ethylene-propylene elastomer rubber (EPR) which is resistant to heat, oxidation, weather, brake fluids, oils and...
During the Viva Energy Geelong Refinery major maintenance shutdown in 2020, the CBC Geelong branch helped supply critical components, including Timken spherical roller bearing solid block housed units, to the plant. The refinery’s Central Maintenance Workshop Supervisor Darren Casboult says restrictions imposed on the site during COVID-19 and the...
When Acora, a New South Wales business specialising in design, sale and installation of sawmill equipment, sought the expertise of CBC’s Wollongong branch to find suitable couplings for their heavy-duty machinery, the CBC sales specialist, Jose Costa, recommended the Lovejoy Quick-Flex® couplings by Timken. Rex Rogers,...
