FORMER RadiciSpandex Plant

FORMER
RadiciSpandex Plant
Production euipment and building available in Tuscaloosa, AL
DRY SPIN PLANT
TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA
n  Established in 1994
n  265,000 sq. Ft across three floor levels
n  Approximately 20 acres of property in an Industrial park setting
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PLANT
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168 spinning cells
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Six spinning sub systems
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Twenty-eight spinning cells per sub system
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Sixteen / twenty-four positions per cell
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Annual capacity is 12-14 million lbs in denier range of 10 - 1680
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DRY SPINNING PROCESS
Major Process systems
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Raw Material Delivery and Storage – All stainless steel storage
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Pre-polymer (6- reactors, flow controls and pumps – all stainless)
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Polymerization (6 – reactors, flow controls and agitated storage vessels, attritors,
specialized mixing equipment)
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Spinning Systems – 168 - 16 & 24 end solution dry spin cells, gode’ assemblies,
winders, lubrication application.
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DCS – Foxboro I/A – upgraded 2009, hardware and software
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Solvent Recovery – three distillation skids for DMAc recovery
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Infrastructure – four boilers, six chillers, two low temperature chillers, five air
compressors w/ dryers, five cooling towers
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Large quantity of MCC equipment all Allen Bradely, large volume of VFD with HP
range of 10 – 100.
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Large quantity of HVAC euipment, exhaust fans and swamp coolers
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Two Bay truck unloading – covered and diked, load and unload walkways
and ramps for top tanker access, dock leveler
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Pre Polymer Capping Reactor – six total
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POLYMER REACTOR – six total units
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DRY SPINNING PROCESS
DSC – Foxboro I/A – two control rooms
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SPINNING SYSTEM – 168 cells
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Solvent Process
Condensors
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WINDER AREA
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Quality Assurance Lab – titrators, Brookfield
viscometers, moisture analysis, GC, fiber
testing equipment
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SOLVENT RECOVERY - DMAc
Three skid mounted units
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Three - 3500 KVA Transformer / Switching Gear
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Contact
Alan Davis
Director Operations
205.752.0677 / 205.657.0795
[email protected]
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