Maxi Hygienic FV Series stainless steel wormboxes have been designed to meet the latest standards for the highly demanding environments found in the food industry. The organic round and smooth design makes the FV Series well suited to the demands of Australian food and beverage, whilst utilising state of the art design technology for the new generation of wormwheel and pinion.

The main features of the Maxi Hygienic stainless steel wormbox are :

• Made of high quality carefully electro polished Stainless Steel AISI316. (Mirror polished finish on request)
• Smooth design is visually appealing; ready to suit all kinds of stainless steel machinery for the food industry
• Standard ratios between 7.5 to 100:1
• Optional 316SS open and closed hollow shaft covers for extra hygiene
• Hollow output shafts in stainless steel
• Optional easy clean hygienic design 316SS torque arms and footplates
• Factory equipped with synthetic H1 foodgrade oil
• Each gearbox is tested with a 100% factory pressure leak test
• No Tagplates! The tagplate is etched on the gearbox, no dirt traps under the tagplate

Recycling Industry Strategic Plan

Australian local councils are currently going through a difficult time with recycling, especially in the wake of previous customers of the raw materials (mainly China), no longer taking anything in. The waste and resource recovery industry is important to the Victorian economy. It has an annual turnover of $4 billion, provides 12,000 full-time equivalent jobs and involves more than 590 businesses.

The Victorian Government has invested over $100 million over the last four years to address waste and resource recovery issues, including developing the Recycling Industry Strategic Plan.

What is the Recycling Industry Strategic Plan?

With the current issues surrounding recycling, the $37 million plan is a long-term overview of a sustainable recycling system in Victoria. Main features of the plan include:

• Spending an additional $8.3 million to boost the Resource Recovery Infrastructure Fund to more than $21 million. These projects will divert at least 500,000 tonnes of material from landfill every year
• $2 million expand markets for recycled materials, increasing the customer base
• $3.3 million for an education program to help the community recycle effectively. (Nationally, just 11.8 per cent of plastics were recycled in Australia in 2016-17)
• $13 million to help councils and industry in the short term, which followed China’s decision to stop importing low-quality recyclable materials.

The plan has four goals designed to deal with immediate issues. The goals are:

• Stabilise the recycling sector
• Increase the quality of recycled materials
• Improve the productivity of the recycling sector
• Develop markets for recycled materials

The collapse of the price received for recycled materials is staggering. Previously, the average price for mixed paper was $225 per tonne. It is now $50 per tonne. Mixed plastics, which are the main recycled export (about 50% going to China, previously), has fallen from $250 a tonne to basically $0.

All Torque Transmissions is heavily involved with clients throughout the recycling industry. We will continue to work with them as new initiatives come to fruition, and the recycling industry evolves.

All Torque Transmissions and WEG have a long shared history. We supply electric motors, variable speed drives, soft starters and other equipment from WEG, although, as this video demonstrates, the entire WEG product range is vast.

The pump industry has specific requirements when it comes to gearing.

Gearboxes for Pumps

Primarily, pumps perform specific roles based on what they are asked to do by differing industries. These industries include:

• Paper
• Sugar
• Oil and Gas
• Mining
• Chemical
• Food
• Explosives
• Marine
• Wastewater
• Wine
• Steel

The pumps themselves are used in differing ways, for different applications:

• Centrifugal pumps
• Twin screw pumps
• Gear pumps
• Lobe pumps
• Cavity pumps

Inline helical gear motors from Bonfiglioli have been designed with IEC input and output, enabling a small footprint to be utilised in reducing pump speeds to the required level from motor input speed.

Types of Gearbox

• Inline helical
• Planetary
• Parallel shaft
• Bevel helical
• Wormbox