Big Brutes tackling sugar cane industry in Queensland

Big Brutes tackling sugar cane industry in Queensland

Mackay Sugar's modified Big Brute Suck & Dump Industrial Vacuum Cleaner

Mackay Sugar is Australia's second largest sugar milling company and operates four sugar processing mills in northern Queensland. The process of converting sugar cane into raw sugar involves a lengthy process and creates a large amount of excess waste including coal, ash and baggase which is the fine matter that remains after sugarcane is crushed.

We were contacted by Mackay Sugar's Racecourse Mill for an industrial vacuum cleaner with the capacity to remove all of the above waste materials. The Racecourse Mill has a production capacity of 1.7 million tonnes of cane and is their second largest capacity facility.

We recommended a modfied Big Brute Suck & Dump Complete Empty Out Industrial Vacuum Cleaner. This model is fully movable on its 4 castor wheels to move around their factory as required and is emptied by lifting the machine with a forklift to it's discharge point. Being a 600mm Wide Complete Empty Out option meant that all light and fluffy material such as their sugar cane bullets and baggase would be completely emptied safely and easily with a forklift meaning no heavy lifting was involved.

As the Racecourse Mill was also sucking up large sugar cane bullets, we also recommended our 100mm inside diameter Big Brute suction hose in addition to the standard 63mm inside diameter Big Brute suction hose. Having the versatility of having both a 15 meter length of 63mm and 3 meters of 100mm inside diameter suction hose meant they could use the same machine for cleaning up different materials.

 

Baggase which has fallen off a conveyor belt which needed to be cleaned up by 15 meters of 63mm inside diameter Big Brute suction hose.

 Some of the sugar cane bullets which needed to be cleaned up 3 meters of 100mm inside diameter Big Brute suction hose.