PORTABLE CRUSHING AND SCREENING PLANT IN KENYA
Baioni currently offer their Kenya customer base various purchasing options like skid-mounted and fixed crushing and screening equipment, providing aggregate producers with the chance to achieve a high-performance plant that matches their specific needs and budgets. Last year Baioni started a new portable aggregates processing plant in Kenya for Associated Construction Co.
The Baioni customer new plant marked once again the presence of the company’s fixed aggregates processing plants in Kenya and also served as a platform to create greater customer awareness of its wider product portfolio and latest offerings and innovations in the marketplace.
According to Stefano Stefanelli, sales manager for East Africa Area, at Baioni the importance of supplying fully customizable plant solutions to help customers manage their machinery assets and associated costs is growing more than ever. «With material producers striving to reduce their operational costs, make efficiency gains and optimize productivity, equipment-management packages associated with PLC package are increasing in popularity across the industry» he commented. «A portable wheel-mounted plant was the approach taken by Baioni to deliver a fully bespoke and individually designed installation at Lokitaung, Lodwar, Turkana county. It is important to highlight that the new solution is to be intended as a long-term partnership whereby Baioni engineers work closely with them during all phases, from specification to commissioning, to create a fixed processing plant that delivers maximum productivity, reliability and uptime» he ended. The project was created to respond to an urgent need to produce suitable, quality aggregates for the production of subbase and asphalt, to be employed in infrastructure works: new Kenya and Ethiopia highway corridor linking Nairobi and Addis Ababa.
The new plant
Capable of accepting a feed size from 0–510mm, the new plant has a nominal processing capacity of 120 tonnes/h and is designed to deliver three final products: 0–6mm, 6–10mm, 10–20mm.
The hard and abrasive feed material is delivered to the plant by dumptruck and discharged into a 8 m3 live volume, reinforced-steel feed hopper. This provides a constant feed supply to the plant’s primary crushing unit, which comprises a Baioni AVC 7/40 vibrating grizzly feeder and a BP 900/600 single-toggle primary jaw crusher.
The primary crushed material is delivered, via a 22m long x 650mm wide belt conveyor to the primary screening unit, which consists of a Baioni W400 heavy-duty, triple-deck, inclined vibrating screen with rubber-lined feed box and wear-protected side plates. Having an eccentric shaft which is connected to the main frame by means of two bearings and supports, generating constant and continuous oscillations, this unit features self-supporting rubber screen elements on the top deck and tensioned steel wire mesh on the lower decks, to deliver three product gradings.
Julius Gikonyo Maina, Baioni regional manager in Kenya said: «Since commissioning, the processing plant has been performing reliably and efficiently, providing the client with much more control and flexibility over their production and allowing them to increase the output of materials to match market demand. The crushing and screening equipment is expected to provide the client with a speedy return on investment Baioni is delighted to be partnering to provide aftermarket services and support solutions throughout the lifecycle of the processing plant, as part of the Baioni 365 services program.
The Baioni customer new plant marked once again the presence of the company’s fixed aggregates processing plants in Kenya and also served as a platform to create greater customer awareness of its wider product portfolio and latest offerings and innovations in the marketplace.
According to Stefano Stefanelli, sales manager for East Africa Area, at Baioni the importance of supplying fully customizable plant solutions to help customers manage their machinery assets and associated costs is growing more than ever. «With material producers striving to reduce their operational costs, make efficiency gains and optimize productivity, equipment-management packages associated with PLC package are increasing in popularity across the industry» he commented. «A portable wheel-mounted plant was the approach taken by Baioni to deliver a fully bespoke and individually designed installation at Lokitaung, Lodwar, Turkana county. It is important to highlight that the new solution is to be intended as a long-term partnership whereby Baioni engineers work closely with them during all phases, from specification to commissioning, to create a fixed processing plant that delivers maximum productivity, reliability and uptime» he ended. The project was created to respond to an urgent need to produce suitable, quality aggregates for the production of subbase and asphalt, to be employed in infrastructure works: new Kenya and Ethiopia highway corridor linking Nairobi and Addis Ababa.
The new plant
Capable of accepting a feed size from 0–510mm, the new plant has a nominal processing capacity of 120 tonnes/h and is designed to deliver three final products: 0–6mm, 6–10mm, 10–20mm.
The hard and abrasive feed material is delivered to the plant by dumptruck and discharged into a 8 m3 live volume, reinforced-steel feed hopper. This provides a constant feed supply to the plant’s primary crushing unit, which comprises a Baioni AVC 7/40 vibrating grizzly feeder and a BP 900/600 single-toggle primary jaw crusher.
The primary crushed material is delivered, via a 22m long x 650mm wide belt conveyor to the primary screening unit, which consists of a Baioni W400 heavy-duty, triple-deck, inclined vibrating screen with rubber-lined feed box and wear-protected side plates. Having an eccentric shaft which is connected to the main frame by means of two bearings and supports, generating constant and continuous oscillations, this unit features self-supporting rubber screen elements on the top deck and tensioned steel wire mesh on the lower decks, to deliver three product gradings.
Julius Gikonyo Maina, Baioni regional manager in Kenya said: «Since commissioning, the processing plant has been performing reliably and efficiently, providing the client with much more control and flexibility over their production and allowing them to increase the output of materials to match market demand. The crushing and screening equipment is expected to provide the client with a speedy return on investment Baioni is delighted to be partnering to provide aftermarket services and support solutions throughout the lifecycle of the processing plant, as part of the Baioni 365 services program.