Hafod’s Quarry Manager Iain Ormrod is delighted with the Hycontrol system and as he concludes: “The installation of the wireless bin level system has made us a more efficient production unit. Prior to this, the stocking dumper driver had to guesstimate when each bin was getting full and this could lead to the bin over filling, contaminating the products in adjacent bins in the process. It could also lead to bins running empty, forcing the bitumen coating plant to use material from stock. Unfortunately, due to the renowned Welsh weather, this was often soaking wet, thereby increasing our drying costs on top of the cost of moving material twice. An added bonus of knowing the level status of each bin is that the stocking dumper can be used for other tasks when the coating plant is busy, such as moving quarry waste, safe in the knowledge that the in-cab display will indicate when a bin is getting full.”

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