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Free Flow Chosen to Install Treatment System for Northern Wisconsin Foundry

In late 2010, Free Flow was contacted by a large Northern Wisconsin foundry regarding our FF-100 reagent treatment product and an associated feeding system for the reagent. The foundry was expanding/updating the dust collection system for the melt decks and the dust being captured is hazardous for lead and cadmium. The foundry is a state of the art facility that can produce over twenty-five (25) tons of metal per hour using large coreless induction furnaces.

Free Flow visited with plant personnel to ensure that the treatment system was properly designed to meet the current and future needs of the foundry. The final Free Flow system design was custom tailored to allow one 2,000 pound super sack of reagent to supply material for two separate volumetric feeders.

In January 2011, Free Flow Technologies, Ltd. was awarded the contract to perform the turn-key installation on the reagent (Free Flow 100) feed system for treatment of the melt dust and fumes generated from the facility's two large melting decks.

In April 2011, Free Flow completed the installation of the reagent feeding system. Free Flow personnel worked closely with the plant personnel (management and maintenance staff) as well as the facility's preferred HVAC and mechanical contractors. A Free Flow engineer was present at the facility during the entire project. Free Flow also performed the system calibration and presented the facility management with calibration graphs for each feeder in the system. The end result was the treatment system was installed in a timely manner and under budget with effective treatment results.

Free Flow can provide in house design and turnkey installation of treatment systems for foundry applications. We can also provide upgraded systems to allow retrofits regardless of the treatment reagent being utilized.