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Overview

Blancon offers a wide range of specialized maintenance and cleaning services for the cement industry. Services cover the full value chain of our clients’ activities, including manufacturing, storing, bulk transport and ready-mix equipment. We are available to address the industry’s emergency needs as well as long-term, on-going service demands. [Click here to download service brochures]

 

  • Cleaning of silos and hoppers at the plant, terminals, and bagging facilities
  • Ability to reclaim lost storage capacity, eliminate of dead stock and blockages; removal of build-ups on ceilings, walls, bottom and cone
  • Cleaning of dry bulk silos: raw meal, clinker, cement; kiln fuel silo cleaning (wet and dry)
  • Internal cleaning of silos for conversion from one type of cement to another (e.g., gray-to-white)
  • Maintenance of all silo constructions, including concrete, steel etc.
  • Mechanical maintenance of integrated and auxiliary equipment: air-pads, inflow and extraction mechanisms etc.
  • Structural inspection and repair
  • Consultation on silo upgrading (e.g., retrofitting of air pads, new cone design and installation)
  • General mechanical and feed equipment installation
  • External painting of all silos construction types and plant facilities
  • Using climbers or platforms to restore silos

  • Holds of cement bulk ship transport carriers
  • Bulk cement truck and trailer transports
  • Concrete removal from ready-mix truck drums and mobile silos and concrete plants
  • Chipping services and non-explosive techniques for heavy build-ups

  • Industrial vacuuming of bag-house, filters and ducts/ tubing
  • Electro static precipitator and scrubber equipment maintenance and cleaning
  • Residual removal and management
  • High-altitude measurements and verification of plant infrastructure
  • Rope and remote access services throughout the cement plant
  • All types of build-up removal and management
  • Engineering support for mechanical maintenance
  • De-scaling of heat exchangers, pumps, piping and tubing
  • Cleanout of boiler installations    Grit blasting & painting of steel structures
  • Cleaning and painting of small and large steel structures, using advanced equipment and specialized coatings for the specific application
  • High pressure washing of external surfaces
  • Cleaning of internal critical surfaces using dry-ice blasting to avoid water and humidity

  • High-capacity industrial vacuuming services, wet and dry
  • Long-term, on-going service contracts

Silo cleaning

Blancon’s silo cleaning method is safer, faster and more efficient than other traditional silo cleaning methods and avoids human entry into the silo. Our customers cite technology, quality of service, required time to clean, and ability to reuse materials, and of course, superior results, as key criteria for selecting Blancon. We offer our customers a well-tested method and system, proven across the world for well over 15 years. We deliver results.

Blancon’s Silo Management function provides services to economically remove, loosen and clean compacted materials from silos and bulk storage containers. Through our highly qualified crews, using our unique Silo-Clean System, silos are delivered to the client in a condition deemed “safe for human-entry.” Our technique consists of various silo cleaning methods with no human entry, which emphasis on efficiency, safety and health directly related to entering a confined space;

  • Customer-oriented approach to silo maintenance projects

  • Highly efficient solution with ability to clean multiple silos simultaneously

  • Elimination of need for extremely dangerous solutions based on explosives and ammunition

  • Superior power and effectiveness than Gyro Whip-type solutions

  • No need for human entry during cleaning operations

  • Ability to clean ceilings, included inverted cones

  • Certified to work in explosive environments (ATEX Zone 20 certified)

  • Rigorous focus on safety and with ISO 9001 and 14001 certified operations


Complete our silo cleaning questionnaire and we will get in touch with you. Click here for the form.

Silo questionnaire

 

To enable us to understand, and assist with, any silo related problems you may have, please fill in our questionnaire. We will get back to you as soon as possible with information as to how Blancon can assist you.

 

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Fabrication & installation

Together with our partners, Blancon offers the heavy industry equipment and plant maintenance and repair services. We also support mechanical assembly of new equipment for a complete client solution.

Services include:

  • Medium and light metal construction to specification

  • Erection of industrial facilities

  • General industrial maintenance and corrosion control

  • Manufacture and assembly of industrial tubing and pipelines