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FALL 2010
KINECOR ’S MAGAZINE OF VALUE , INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS
QUESTIONS
& ANSWERS
A conversation with
Kinecor President
Adrian Trotman
FINE WINE
The science of filtration
meets the art
of Icewine
BEHIND
THE MASK
C&D Aerospace
commits to
the air
Maintenance
adventures at
La Ronde
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The
Mechanics
of Fun
Maintenance adventures
at La Ronde
features
13. Question & Answer
A conversation with Kinecor
President Adrian Trotman
35. Behind the Mask
C&D Aerospace Canada remains
committed to the air
39. Paint it Green(er)
Tough environmental rules lead to
a new generation of coatings
43. Air Power
Powered Air Purifying Respirators
may be a better fit
(Photo: La Ronde)
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Fine Wine – The art and science of wine at The Ice House
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First I would like to thank you — our valued customers — for continuing to support
Kinecor through your purchases of Bearing and Power Transmission, Hydraulic,
and Process products and services.
Connections magazine offers you an opportunity to establish a more in-depth
understanding of our capabilities, and to see how your peers in various industries
are overcoming challenges. After you read through this edition, I’m confident you
will agree that the following pages are packed with valuable information, and I
hope it benefits your organization.
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In this edition, we are thrilled to share the stories of LaRonde’s maintenance
program, and how it literally keeps the theme park’s business on the rails; The
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Ice House winery, which balances the art and science of wine making; and
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ATCO Midstream, which remains committed to continuous improvement in every
possible way. You will find technical guidance to help select everything from
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powered respirators to pumps and industrial coatings, and learn how to protect
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your employees from the dangers associated with compressed air. We even have
the opportunity to introduce you to Festo and American-Marsh, who have joined
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our growing list of trusted suppliers.
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Once you read these articles, we would like to know what you think about them.
Perhaps it is my background in engineering, but I firmly believe in the power of
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metrics and the need to carefully measure the impact of every business activity.
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After all, how can you improve unless you get feedback from your customers? In
our business and in yours, it all starts with the customer.
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thoughts about the magazine and its content. The invitation doesn’t end there,
either. We would like to hear your opinion of our company. What do we do well
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and what do you see are the areas for improvement?
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It is part of an ongoing commitment as we reach out to you, our customers
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THE
MECHANICS
OF FUN
(Photo: La Ronde)
Exploring maintenance
adventures at the La Ronde
amusement park
By Carroll McCormick
The tap-tapping of a hammer floats down
from one of the enormous wooden trestles
of the Monster. Soaring 39.9 metres, it is
the world’s highest double wooden roller
coaster. I spot a tiny inspector walking
its 1.2-kilometre track, hammering in a
nail here, checking a bolt there, looking
for any possible reason why this classic
beauty should not be carrying up to 112
thrill seekers at a time after they begin
pouring in at 11 a.m.
From May to October inspectors
scrutinise the Monster and 40 other rides
at La Ronde, a 57.3-hectare amusement
park sandwiched between the Jacques
Cartier bridge and the St. Lawrence River.
For 3 hours every night after the park
closes and 6 hours every morning before
it reopens, they inspect, adjust, lubricate,
repair, test drive, sign off and finally
turn over the rides to their operators and
throngs of excited fun bunnies.
A subsidiary of United Statesheadquartered Six Flags Inc., La Ronde,
which first opened for Expo 67, is the
biggest amusement park in Canada. It
draws 1.2 million people a year. In the
service of their safety a maintenance
crew of 60 (but reduced to perhaps
2 dozen in the winter) draws from a
$4 million budget, a store of more than
10,000 different spare parts, instant
international communications, reams
of documentation and local firms with
specialized expertise, to do their jobs.
“There is no equipment that is checked
as thoroughly as the rides. Only at NASA
is equipment checked more thoroughly,”
declares Alain Liboiron, Chief of the
Maintenance Division – Rides. He is a
16-year veteran here and the only Level 2
Amusement Industry Manufacturers
and Suppliers International-certified
Maintenance Technician in Quebec.
Henry McLaughlin, a 55 year-old
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MONSTER MECHANIC – Serge Girardeau, a mechanic with 48 years experience, is a member of the team that keeps rides such as La Ronde’s Monster on the move.
(Photo: Carroll McCormick)
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mechanic, stands in an inspection bay
underneath one of the trains that clatters
around the Monster’s dual tracks at speeds
up to 96 kilometres an hour. He checks
wheels, cotter pins and connections,
advances the train a bit, and pokes and
pries some more. Although a veteran with
a wrench, he has only been working at La
Ronde for a few weeks. He works under
the watchful eye of a much younger, but
seasoned Monster mechanic.
“We favour on the job training. The
mechanics are specialized in their rides,”
Liboironexplains.A6-monthapprenticeship
and written tests are required to become a
certified ride inspector.
Unlike the bright red, yellow, green
and purple-painted steel roller coasters
and their glass-smooth rides, Monster
is true to the timber construction style
of the original 19th Century amusement
park rides. The little trains and their
passengers squeal and shriek as they
negotiate the curves and the sensation of
speed is exquisite as the trestle timbers
flash past just feet away.
Monster maintenance has some unique
points: Vibration tugs at the nails and
bolts holding the trestles together, and
2 inspectors walk the tracks in one
direction one day and in the opposite
direction the next to spot any problems
that might emerge.
Between 2001 and 2003 La Ronde
replaced 10,000 nuts in areas of high
vibration and stress with specially
manufactured nuts. Stiff wires prevent
them from working loose. Bolts do not
want to be too tight or too loose, but
the moisture content of the wood has
something to say about that. If too many
weeks pass without rain, Monster is
watered to swell the wood and tighten
up the structure.
A pair of massive 250-horsepower
motors turn huge gearboxes that
have never needed rebuilding since
Monster was born in 1985. Two years
ago La Ronde changed the 183-metre,
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ROLLER RIDES – La Ronde roller coasters include Boomerang, Ednör, Goliath, Vampire and Cobra (shown).
(Photo: La Ronde)
2,500-kilogram chain that winches
the trains up the first dizzying incline
and replaced 2 huge sprockets – one
46 centimetres and the other one 76
centimetres in diameter.
The more modern-looking roller
coasters include Boomerang, Cobra,
Ednör, Goliath and Vampire. These slick
steel pretzels, corkscrews and undulating
waves whip the sitting and suspended
riders every which way, and they require
some special attention. Every weld is
periodically inspected by a 3rd party.
Non-destructive tests are used, including
magnetic particle testing to reveal cracks,
and X-rays to detect any corrosionrelated thinning of steel tubes. Inspectors
walk these rides, too, and use binoculars
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to inspect every single bolt.
Every morning the mechanics pick
up their marching orders from the
supervisor’s office: Neatly arranged
clipboards hold their daily check lists
for their routes. Route 5, for instance,
includes the Minirail, Grande Roue,
Catapulte and Le Galopant.
The rides differ in the details of the
inspections they require, but like the
roller coasters it’s all about looking
for wear, damage and loose hardware,
testing safety systems and the machinery
that make them twirl, swing, spin and
otherwise thrill their riders.
After the mechanics complete their
checklists, they leave a checked off and
signed white paper at the inspected rides.
The operator is forbidden to operate the
ride if the paper is not there. Even if the
date is wrong on the list, the operator has
to call the mechanic to come correct it.
Back in the supervisor’s office, inspection
reports are examined and filed.
In the summer there are daily, weekly
and monthly inspections. The pace for
the maintenance team is Olympian. The
autumn signals the start of intensive
preventative and corrective maintenance.
Rides are winterized and some equipment,
such as all the rides’ cars and trains, are
dismantled for a complete teardown and
overhaul. In the spring the park comes
out of hibernation, rides are reassembled
and readied.
Until this year maintenance has always
been organized manually, but this spring
La Ronde purchased a Computerized
Maintenance Management Program
(CMMP) from Logi-am, a company
based in nearby Boucherville. The task
of switching over to the CMMP will be
added to everyone’s clipboards this fall.
La Ronde purchased its latest roller
coaster from Six Flags’ AstroWorld
theme park, now closed. The ride arrived
in Montreal a year ago and La Ronde
opened it to the public this spring.
Christened “Ednör – L’attaque”, it is
typical of the recent-generation roller
coasters: Steel supports, trains with
vulcanized urethane wheels, seats and
safety harnesses, computers and sensors
that monitor the trains for any anomalous
behaviour. For example, computers test
proximity switches 100 times a second.
If they disagree about where 2 trains
on the track are, the computer stops the
trains. Electro-technicians (La Ronde has
8) are responsible for the many electronic
systems on the rides. Ednör has daily tests
that must be performed, and if they are
not, a 22-hour timer will freeze the ride.
To help the maintenance department
prepare to take care of Ednör, corporate
engineers, mechanics and electromechanics from other Six Flags
parks came to Montreal to share their
experiences. “They helped us put this
NON DESTRUCTIVE
– Thousands of weld and stress
points are subjected to nondestructive testing each year.
(Photo: Carroll McCormick)
ride in operation, show us how to
inspect the trains and structure and how
to dismantle some of the equipment,”
Liboiron says. Ride manufacturer Vekoma
Rides Manufacturing and the control
systems engineering company Consign
also helped in the commissioning of
the ride. Even though some of the rides’
manufacturers are in Europe, help is only
an email away, Liboiron says, “We can
email them with any questions and they
reply immediately. We have support all
the time.”
No tools came with the ride. La Ronde
purchased some and the maintenance
department fabricated others. “The
manufacturer gives us the drawings for the
tools. A lot of them we make ourselves. We
also have a machine shop in St-Hubert that
has been making tools and parts for us for 8
years,” Liboiron explains.
Ednör’s tracks have been checked this
morning for damage, debris, tightness of the
anchor bolts and the good functioning of
the track protection system. A technician is
jacking up each of the train’s bogies, spinning
the wheels and listening for bearing noise.
Electric, pneumatic and hydraulic systems
are checked.
In a maintenance shop tucked alongside
Ednör (most of the big rides have their own
cozy shops in which trains are serviced),
Ednör’s other train is being readied. Its
3 anti-rollback ratchets are checked to
make sure they are working properly.
Weekly lubrication is important, too. “If
we don’t lubricate there will be wear. Parts
replacement is expensive,” says Liboiron.
Oil levels in the wheels are verified through
transparent windows.
A fat manual supplied by Vekoma sits
beside a tall red toolbox. It has very detailed
checklists of scheduled tasks for Ednör. For
example, a Stieber coupling requires an oil
change every 2,000 hours; a Captec R-31
gear unit gets an oil change every 4,000
hours. Park-wide, there are many hour-based
inspections. The Monorail, for example, gets
an Inspection B (a time-based inspection)
after every 180 hours of running time.
In addition to maintenance manuals,
which manufacturers must provide, an
encyclopedic collection of tens of thousands
gear boxes.
La Ronde does most of its own
maintenance, but specialized tasks such as
hydraulic work and non-destructive testing
are farmed out. The Elevator Code requires
special inspections on 2 rides, Condor and
La Spirale, which technically speaking are
elevators.
Just inside the parts store, cabinets are
stuffed with super-sized and specialized
tools. There, a 75-centimetre long wrench
with 6.6-centimetre mouth takes its place
beside a 61-centimetre adjustable wrench,
30-centimetre C-clamps, electrical testing
equipment and gear pullers galore.
Soaring shelves are packed with more
than 10,000 different parts: Lights, fuses
the size of hot dog buns, electronic
sensors, shoulder restraints, gears, wheels
and transmissions.
“Since 1997 we order all of our bearings
from Kinecor,” Liboiron adds. “Kinecor is
“Kinecor understands our
requirements and will do anything
to get us the parts we need.”
~ Alain Liboiron, Chief of Maintenance Division - Rides
of documents are stored in a locked room
off the main repair shop. Engineering
drawings can be referred to for inspections
and tests; the Vampire roller coaster alone
spawned hundreds of drawings. There are
binders packed with years worth of technical
bulletins and notifications for rides made by
Bollinger and Mabillar, Arrow and Zamperla
among others. “Reading these bulletins
is part of the on the job training for each
person’s ride,” Liboiron remarks.
The main shop is quiet right now, but it
will start to rock after the park’s gates open
and maintenance staff return to home base.
There are 8 different sectors of activity
in the workshop: Mechanical, electrotechnical, electrical, plumbing, paint shop,
upholstery, carpentry and vehicle repair. In
the fall, custom-built racks will fill with cars
and trains from the rides, and work benches
will get busier as technicians dismantle
reliable. It has long-term relationships
with its suppliers. Kinecor understands
our requirements and will do anything
to get us the parts we need.” Kinecor
stores certain parts for La Ronde and also
provides technical assistance that helps
reduce downtime.
Parts orders are made in bulk, with each
Six Flags park contributing a list of parts
they want. In safety-critical areas, OEM
parts — both quality checked and guaranteed
— are always used. “We always buy OEM
even if they cost 3 times as much,” Liboiron
explains. “We never take a chance.”
In 2008 Liboiron and his crew spent 5
months entering 6,000 parts into EATEC,
a parts inventory module in La Ronde’s
Great Plains financial software system.
The work to enter the rest of the parts
will resume this fall, after the rides are
put to bed for another year.
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Question&Answer
A conversation with Kinecor President Adrian Trotman
By John G. Smith
Adrian Trotman offers a long list of
credentials. He holds the designation of a
professional engineer, earned an MBA, and
has served increasing managerial roles in
the distribution industry. Earlier this year,
he was named the president of Kinecor.
Connections Magazine recently sat down
with him to discuss his career path, views
about the industry, and the ways that Kinecor
serves its customers.
Q. What can you tell us about your
career path prior to assuming your role at
Kinecor?
After graduating university, the plan
was to work for a consulting engineering
or project management firm. A fellow
engineer and friend, who worked in the
elevator industry, knew how much I enjoyed
business management and suggested I
consider a position as a sales engineer. I
subsequently interviewed with Otis Elevator
Company, a division of United Technologies,
where most of management was made
up of engineers with business degrees. It
was a great opportunity to learn technical
sales, accounting, operations and general
management. Thankfully, I had great
mentors along the way and those 8 years
at Otis in sales and service management
simply flew by.
Then in 1995, I accepted a position
at Carrier, also a United Technologies
company. I was first responsible for
running the commercial sales and
service business for the Greater Toronto
Area. Once again with invaluable
mentors, my roles and responsibilities
increased not only in HVAC commercial
and industrial products distribution, but
also in HVAC residential and aftermarket
products distribution. It was then, in
2004, that I became Carrier’s Canadian
president responsible for sales and
distribution.
Now, 6 years later, I am pleased to be
Kinecor’s new president.
KINECOR President — Adrian Trotman.
Q. What attracted you to this particular
opportunity?
It is the challenge of becoming “best in
class” in distribution, not only through
operational excellence but also by providing
value-added services that benefit our
customers and differentiate us from our
competitors. In my previous experiences,
the industry was our main limitation. For
instance, by only selling HVAC products
over time, others replicated our efficiency
and value-add model. Kinecor has a lot
of runway given its diverse businesses and
customer base.
Q. How might your earlier training as an
engineer help in this role?
I believe it’s a combination of both my
engineering background and quality
management training. It has led me to
become more process focused and always
looking for continuous improvement. My
background assists me with looking at a
situation, gathering relevant information,
then finding the root cause before charting
the future direction. I am also big on
metrics. I strongly believe that if you don’t
measure where you are, you really don’t
know if you are getting to where you want
to be. The increased use of external and
internal metrics is one of the things I want
to bring to Kinecor — asking our customers,
suppliers and employees how we are doing,
how can we improve, what aspects of our
work are of value and which aren’t. As a
result, we’ll be able to validate if we are on
track to becoming “best in class”.
Q. When you think of Kinecor, does a
particular strength come to mind?
We have a lot of untapped capability. Our
roots are in bearings and power transmission
(B&PT) but over the years we have added
hydraulics, and more recently, safety and
process. This gives us an amazing portfolio
of products and services. We need to provide
focus to each of these businesses to benefit
our customers.
Q. You set an aggressive goal of visiting 80%
of Kinecor’s branches in 6 months. Why did
you feel that was so important?
It is important to understand our local
customers and branches as they don’t face
the same challenges. Some are tied to a
particular industry or were established in a
one-industry town, while others have a broad
set of customers. I believe it is important
to know firsthand the opportunities and
challenges, both internally and externally,
for any given branch. When I visit, I want to
meet customers, but also want to talk to the
warehouse guys, to inside and outside sales,
and lastly to management. I learn what
makes the business from the ground up.
Q. Were you struck by anything in particular
during these visits?
I was pleased to see how our employees
are proud to work for this company. That’s
something you always want to see. They are
very passionate about providing the highest
level of service to our customers.
Q. Let me ask you a question about your
business philosophy. How does an industrial
distributor set itself apart from competitors?
In modern distribution, customers expect
your business to be operationally excellent,
providing knowledgeable employees, ontime service, lowest overall transaction cost.
We source, stock, store, sell and ship. In
distribution, everyone has to be excellent at
these 5 Ss. Our goal is to be the best and
provide additional value that will set us
apart from the competition.
Q. Will you be taking steps to strengthen
relationships with those who supply the
products themselves?
The relationship with your suppliers is
critical. It is about win-win. They have
their business goals and we have ours.
When these goals align, we both win. Open
dialogue is therefore necessary as we look
for ways to not only expand our product
offering, but also remove unnecessary cost
from the supply chain.
Q. How do you think you can get more
customers to take advantage of Kinecor’s
engineering teams and their expertise?
Right now, customers call us with a
problem, and our team has the experience
to assist them. An area of opportunity is to
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the recovery that is taking place right
now?
When you look at Canada in terms
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issues. He suggested that may come
from your background as an engineer.
What do you think?
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for was the opportunity to work for
United Technologies. Its management
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my systematic approach. Their
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that reality?
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sector. The organization has done a
good job of diversifying its customers
and products. This year, the growth
is coming from mining, steel and
aluminum, and our process acquisition
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to pay off as we introduce process
products to our existing customer
base.
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distribution
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biggest
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knowledge base. The employees who
have 30 years of experience are going
to be retiring. Our customers face the
same challenge. How do we attract
and train the next generation of
employees in industrial distribution?
Not everyone can work for Apple or
RIM. We have to figure out a way
to draw bright young people into
this industry and say, “You know
what? You can make a career out of
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processes?
Yes, customers are asking for different
ways to transact with us. We need to
improve our e-commerce capability.
Also, improvements to our information
systems will help internally. We just
spent millions on a new ERP system.
It has a lot more capability than the
previous system, allowing us to run
our business better.
Q. How do you address the fact that the
technologies themselves are evolving
so rapidly?
We have a great IT team. In making
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look 10 years out. Is the technology
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to be in 10 years? Is it flexible? In
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CHEERS – Jamie Macfarlane (inset) offers a toast to The
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his team bottle the golden nectar.
(Photos: John G. Smith)
Fine Wine
The Ice House combines the art of wine with the
science of filtration, and the results are pure gold
By John G. Smith
The making of Icewine is a delicate balance of art and science, and
nowhere is that more apparent than The Ice House. Every visitor to
the boutique winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario needs
to walk by a small laboratory as they enter the front door,
and a seat in the tasting area’s leather furniture offers a
clear view of the gleaming stainless steel tanks used to
produce the award-winning nectar.
“We have a very sophisticated lab for a little winery,” The
Ice House owner Jamie Macfarlane observes, referring to the
equipment that watches over factors such as volatile acidity,
alcohol content, sugar and total acidity.
But he never forgets who is really in charge. “Mother
Nature is in control,” Macfarlane insists. Science and
filtration may help to stabilize and clarify the final mixture,
but the nuances of peach, apricot, butterscotch and caramel
rely on natural forces that occur after the grapes ripen.
“Then we have to have the freeze.”
He is not talking about the chillers used to control temperatures
inside the tanks. This winery’s 25 acres of grapes are only harvested
once temperatures drop to -8 Celsius, concentrating the sugar in the
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HOME OF THE ICEHOUSE — The Ice House winery in
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. (Photo: John G. Smith)
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fruit. And the fermentation process
that follows could last anywhere from
4 weeks to 6 months, depending on
the timing of that harvest. The high
concentration of sugar and acidity
presents a challenging environment
for the yeast.
These same factors that give the
wine its unique characteristics also
present a production challenge.
“Because of the development of the
grape, the concentration, it’s a very
difficult wine to clarify,” he explains.
To deal with that, he works closely
with Clive King of Kinecor’s Peacock
Division, addressing any challenges
that are spotted during tests in the
lab. And the challenges change from
one vintage to the next. “Filtration is
not an exact science,” he says.
Most of the filtration occurs with
the help of Cuno’s Zeta Plus filters,
which include models that seem to
offer a perfect fit for the winery’s
volumes. “In some wineries, they
might be considered lab filters. For
us they are for production,” he adds.
Small they may be, but they can still
target particles between 0.45 and 30
micron in size, depending on what the
quality control technician discovers
in the lab.
“The other thing I like about those
products is they’re self contained, so
any losses are minimal. That’s very
important in our product because our
product is so expensive,” he says.
The juice used to make a Cabernet
Sauvignon Icewine is extremely
expensive, and every drop counts
when you consider that The Ice House
will only bottle about 1,000 litres of
this particular variety in an entire
year.
Every drop will also pass through
a 0.45 micron BevASSURE filter to
capture residual yeast or bacteria.
“That is a big issue for us because
we still have residual sugar in our
wines, so there is still a food source
for a contaminant yeast,” Macfarlane
explains. The filter design offers
several
important
features
to
perform the job. A cross section of
its asymmetric polyether sulfone
membrane would reveal large pores
in the upstream surface that taper to
smaller pores downstream. This makes
it possible to contain a larger volume
of the unwanted contaminants. The
cartridge itself is even designed to
withstand exposure to sanitizing,
sterilizing methods, and common
cleaning agents.
Macfarlane and King have worked
together on filtration challenges for
years. They were first introduced
when Macfarlane returned to Ontario
from Cote D’Or, France, and began
working with Vincor to develop
the province’s first commercially
available Icewine. They worked
together on products made by TG
Bright and Company, and began to
work with the Zeta Plus filter line
at Kittling Ridge Wine and Spirits.
It seems only natural that the pair
would continue to work together
when Macfarlane opened the Ice
House in 2005.
“The nice thing about working
with Clive is he’s got an awful lot of
experience in the wine business, but
he also understands it is not an exact
science. It can change. He’s a huge
resource,” the winery owner says.
Of course, there are other important
steps to follow to protect the quality
of the wine as it flows into the
bottles. Cleanliness is vital to the
whole process. “It’s a rather boring
secret, but keeping the winery clean
and equipment clean is essential.
Otherwise you’ll have spoilage. It’s
always there to varying degrees, and
that’s where a lot of the corrective
action to those issues is filtration.”
The commitment to quality has
paid dividends. The winery’s 2005
vintage Vidal earned a Grand Gold
medal from Monde Selection, an
international institute based in
Brussels, Belgium. Wine writer
Gordon Stimmell probably put it best
when reporting for The Toronto Star.
He referred to the taste as a “gush
of absolute hedonism.” Two other
Grand Golds followed in 2008 for
the Vintner’s Reserve and Cabernet
Sauvignon.
As welcome as the awards have
been, Macfarlane knows that he
needs to keep a careful watch on
the marketplace. “Icewine still is an
underdeveloped market. A lot of our
guests are tourists from the U.S., and
almost half of them have never heard
of it let alone tasted it,” he says.
“When they hear the story they look
at you like you’re crazy. When they
taste the product they get it.” Most
of his 3,000 cases a year will be sold
from this location, although some
will be exported as far away as Japan,
China, South Korea and Germany.
Even though the U.S. represents a
valuable opportunity, any marketing
message faces a challenge when the
bottles arrive at a Florida wine outlet
that offers 40,000 different choices.
Meanwhile, he is thinking about other
products to come, such as a distillate
of Icewine that is essentially an unaged brandy or an eau de vie.
Today, the real focus is on the
signature Vidal Icewine. Just around
the corner from the tasting area, 4
workers are crowded around a small
bottling station, filling each case by
hand. But Macfarlane is also thinking
about the growing season that will
affect future bottles. Even though
this year’s warm temperatures have
presented
ideal growing conditions,
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he displays the guarded optimism
familiar to anyone who makes a
living from the land. “It looks like
we are 2 weeks ahead of schedule,”
he says. “That concerns me a little
because it’s important that we use
late-ripening varieties, so they reach
maturity just before Mother Nature
turns on her refrigerator.”
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SWEET
SCIENCE
ATCO Midstream is committed
to finding better ways to
process natural gas
By John G. Smith
Terms like sweet and sour are normally used when describing the taste of food,
but it means something more in the world of natural gas production. Gas is
“sweetened” after unwanted hydrogen sulphide is stripped away, removing any
sour and foul odors in the process.
It is an important step for the sake of protecting health and the environment
alike. Hydrogen sulphide is also extremely corrosive, and could wreak havoc
with equipment that is not specially designed to withstand the destructive forces.
The destruction would not be limited to metal equipment, either. After burning,
hydrogen sulphide oxidizes to become sulphur dioxide, and that contributes to
acid rain.
The ATCO Midsteam facility in Carbondale, Alberta has been designed to
ensure these destructive forces never have a chance to take hold. Inside the
100-foot towers, the “sour” natural
gas comes into contact with liquids
known as alkanolamines, which are
more commonly known as amines.
A chemical reaction ensues, and the
unwanted hydrogen sulphide and
carbon dioxide are stripped away,
leaving behind simple sulphur and a
clean-burning gas.
It is a common process throughout
the industry, but ATCO Midstream
Plant Supervisor Jeff McClements and
his team are always looking to improve
every aspect of the approach. No step is
immune from a potential change.
“They’ve been changing all kinds of
equipment in the plant,” observes Ed
Glawson of Kinecor’s Peacock division,
referring to the site that was designed
to process up to 1,550 103m3 of raw
gas per day. “You go to some places
and they stay status quo. These guys
are innovators that want their plant
running as efficiently as possible.”
The recent replacement of a traditional
paper filter is a perfect example. Paper
filters in the amine system were being
plagued with bypass issues and had
to be changed out every 4 to 6 weeks,
so the Peacock team recommended
a 740 Series cartridge filter from 3M
that captured particles as small as 25
micron. But the team had to be willing
to do more than change a simple filter
element. “We re-plumbed a brand new
vessel,” Glawson says.
The results were impressive. The first
filter was lasting so long that teams
took multiple amine samples just to be
sure that it was capturing the unwanted
contaminants. It didn’t need to be
changed for 7 months. Now the team
is looking to change to a tighter 10or-15 micron design to produce a
cleaner solution, but even those filters
are expected to last 4 to 5 months
between changes.
“We all want to work smarter and not
harder. Who wants to change a filter
every few weeks if you don’t have
to?” McClements asks. Of course, it is
more than a matter of convenience.
Each replacement tended to cost about
$1,200. “We predict we will change
the filters 10 times less a year. There’s
$12,000 in savings just on filters
alone,” he says. The new filters will pay
for themselves in just 2 years once the
cost of manpower is considered, and
that manpower can now be invested
into other opportunities to improve
the plant. In addition to that, a cleaner
amine leads to a cleaner process, which
is what the filters are installed to offer
in the first place.
Environmental benefits come with
fewer filter disposals, while staff
members are protected from the types
of safety risks that are linked to any
mechanical procedure.
“Now we can use the guys where
they should be used, using their time
and intelligence,” McClements adds.
is quite addictive. The idea gets pushed
through and proves itself, and you
celebrate as a team, as a group, because
you accomplish something together,”
he explains.
Every conversation seems to be
about reducing something. Reducing
emissions. Reducing costs. Reducing
fuel. It is a matter of using technology
strategically. What equipment was
not available yesterday, and is there
a reason for introducing it today?
When the team decided to increase the
efficiency of the cooler by switching to
Hudson fans, for example, they reduced
the horsepower needed to maintain the
amine temperatures.
Of course, the internal processes are
already quite effective. Sour natural
gas — containing concentrations of
sulphur dioxide as high as 800 to 900
ppm — is fed into the plant at pressures
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Thanks to ongoing support from their
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upper management, the time is put to
good use by Team Carbondale – a group
which includes the plant supervisor;
maintenance and mechanical staff
Darren Childs and Neil Carnegie; and
operational staff Terry Wispinski and
Barret Skog.
All 5 people who work at the site are
open to change, McClements insists,
referring to brainstorming sessions
that take place every day. “There isn’t
any resistance. No idea is a bad idea.”
Suppliers such as Kinecor are also asked
to contribute ideas of their own.
It is a commitment that has led
to changes in everything from the
shipping of products to the use of
chemicals and a variety of mechanical
procedures. “It becomes something that
of 150, 350 and 650 psi. Once it
arrives, it is compressed by a pair of
1,300 horsepower Solar Turbine gas
engines that are fitted with compression
packages. As the gas flows past a
contactor, the liquid amine combines
with the hydrogen sulphide and carbon
dioxide, and then drops to the bottom.
Water is absorbed by a glycol contactor,
and the final result is a natural gas that
is free of the unwanted carbon dioxide
and contains less than 1 ppm of
hydrogen sulphide. A “reboiler” at the
bottom of the tower keeps the mixture
of amine and water at 123 Celsius,
boiling away any water and producing
steam for an internal generator.
And the components in the Carbondale
facility are built with the sour gas
in mind. Every valve and related
• continued from page A-7
component is designed to withstand the
corrosion. Vessels and pipes are also
insulated and coupled with a heater to
ensure the pure molten sulphur can be
created when the region’s temperatures
fall anywhere between 32 and -40
Celsius.
The plant treats about 34 million
cubic
feet of natural gas per day,
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feeding a refinery in Fort Saskatchewan.
There, the teams do not need to worry
about the contaminants that would
otherwise freeze components and limit
production.
McClements suggests that many of the
emerging solutions are possible because
of an early investment in telemetry.
Every conceivable operating condition
is monitored, from the circulation of
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to let you know where you’re at as far
as operations,” he says, referring to
telemetry, automation, and the proper
control that maximize the agility of the
process.
That agility leads to savings in the
form of reductions in power needs, fuel
gas consumption and emissions.
“Now we’re able to reduce fuel gas
consumption and emissions on our
boiler due to proper process control,”
he says as an example. “There are also
power savings when we are able to run
circulation rates and process cooling
on demand rather than in a manual
state. The electric motors driving this
equipment are now utilizing their
minimum required horsepower.”
With the right combination of
automation and telemetry, many
potential challenges are solved before
they ever have a chance to occur.
The plant is able to maintain levels,
circulation rates, pressures and steam
rates even if there are unexpected
swings in the pressure of the gas which
feeds the facility. “You’re going to
prevent a lot of equipment damage and
unnecessary outages,” he adds.
Meanwhile, a series of redundant
systems ensures that the process
continues while any maintenance
occurs. If packing needs to be replaced,
for example, a redundant pump can be
engaged.
“We are a preventive-maintenanceran facility. We are always staying
ahead of major crashes,” McClements
adds. The team remains focused on
monitoring levels, completing oil
changes, performing lab work, and
maintaining equipment, communicating
with each other every step of the way.
“We’re always looking toward savings
and bettering the facility because we
feel it’s our job to do so — for us, the
company, and the environment,” he
says. “Never leave any rock unturned.
Look at every part of the plant. There’s
always something to improve.”
PUMPS FOR PEACOCK
American-Marsh pumps added to Peacock product line
By John G. Smith
It would be an understatement to suggest
that the American-Marsh Pump Group has
plenty of experience. The manufacturer of
centrifugal and positive displacement pumps,
electrical motors, couplings and pumping
equipment has been in the business since
1873. That makes it one of the oldest pump
manufacturers in the world.
Now its products are being distributed by
Kinecor’s Peacock Division.
The company had offered products
through Wajax and Kinecor in the past, so
working with Peacock was a natural fit,
says Michael Florio, Senior Vice President
of the American-Marsh Pump Group. The
distributor’s national exposure also helped to
seal the deal. “You can’t service a company
very well from a long distance,” he adds.
American-Marsh offers more than 100
products in 17 product lines including gear,
end suction, process sump, non-clog, split
case, vertical multistage, ANSI process,
vertical turbine, and self priming pumps.
“Over the last century, through continuous
productdevelopment,moreAmerican-Marsh
models have been retired than most other
pump manufacturers have ever produced,”
the company notes. “Hundreds of thousands
of pumps have been built, all designed with
long life in mind, allowing many of them to
last over 50 years in service.”
The products offer hydraulic coverages of
up to 100,000 gallons per minute and heads
through 2,500 feet. And the manufacturer
meets needs from standard applications
to the most complex mining installations
which put centrifugal pumps through
their paces – running as far as 1,600 feet
compared to the 20-foot designs needed
for a municipal use. Products such as the
480 Series open line shaft vertical turbine
pumps, for example, are highly engineered
and can build available flow and pressure
with the help of up to 50 stages on a single
impeller.
“A lot of manufacturers shy away from it
because it does require a significant amount
of engineering capabilities,” Florio says of
the complex work. There is a lot at stake to
be sure. A week of lost time at a mine could
equate to a loss of $100,000 or more.
Above all, American-Marsh makes a
commitment to “durability by design”.
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Pitot tube pumps can be ideal for high-pressure applications
By Joshua Jensen
Marketing Manager
Weir Specialty Pumps
Pitot tube pumps can be found everywhere
from industrial cleaning systems to the
high-pressure water injection systems which
control the NOx from gas turbines – and
they are proving their worth in a growing
list of other high-pressure applications.
These single-stage pump designs
produce high pressures without the need
for high speeds, close clearances or
complicated controls. And their durability
is further enhanced by a mechanical seal
on the suction side of the pump, which is
isolated from the end of the mechanical
drive. This minimizes the opportunity for
leaks that would otherwise contaminate
bearings.
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varying flow requirements.
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the low axial load are delivered
independently of the o v e r a l l
flow
rate.
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the pump
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any
point on its
performance
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bearings or destroying the shaft.
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A stationary pitot tube extends from
the centre of the pump to the inside
diameter of the rotating case. There, the
liquid reaches its maximum velocity as
it contacts the pitot tube’s opening. The
pitot tube’s internal passage serves as a
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The pump’s flow capability is
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BEHIND THE MASK
C&D Aerospace Canada remains committed to the air
By Carroll McCormick
Thirteen pairs of eyes are watching as
the instructor snaps 2 elastic straps
high and low across the back of his
head. He turns to model the snug fit
of the dust mask against his face. His
words are muffled behind the ribbed
white fabric. Half-mask and full-face
protection, cartridges, gloves and other
gear are lined up on the conference
table.
The workers have seen this before.
The scene is repeated every 2 months
at C&D Aerospace Canada, in
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, on Montreal
Island. The division of Huntington
Beach, California-based C&D Zodiac
Aerospace Group specializes in
designing and fabricating custom
interiors for Bombardier Aerospace’s
Challenger 605 and Global 5000
business jets. It is the only one of the
Group’s 14 divisions that builds for
business jets. The rest make aircraft
interiors for Boeing, Bombardier and
Embraer commercial aircraft.
The Dollard-des-Ormeaux complex,
which occupies 3 buildings and 110,000
square feet, employs 565 people. They
are the ones who design and fabricate
the eye-catching tables, cabinets and
buttery leather chairs and couches
which cuddle VIP air travelers. They
assemble the interiors’ electronics and
build ventilation systems, wall shells,
galleys, vanities, wardrobes and
bathrooms.
And they are the ones who need to
be protected from the fumes and dust
that are a reality when working with
paints, lacquers, glues and wood.
“We decided years ago to highlight
the risks associated with every step
in production. They are controllable,”
says Yanic Berthiaume, Manager of
REFINED AIR — C&D Aerospace Canada creates the
refined appointments for aircraft interiors.
(Photo: C&D Aerospace Canada)
Maintenance, Health and Safety with
C&D Aerospace Canada. “The first step
is to inform employees of the risks. For
example, there are certain paints, such
as those containing isocyanates, that
are more dangerous than others. You
must reduce to the greatest degree the
exposure to these paints. We ensure
that the workers understand why
they have to wear masks and protect
themselves. It is a difficult situation to
understand and difficult to appreciate
the long-term consequences.
“We teach the history of masks, why
they are necessary and the proper way
to wear them. We discuss the impact
of products, like paint and glues, on
the body. We teach our employees
about the different masks for different
applications, such as cartridges for
vapours and dust masks for fibreglass
and wood.”
Kinecor supplies the company with
many of the masks and air filters and
also provides training in their use.
The focus on air quality is not
limited to the space behind the
masks. Berthiaume leads me through
a darkened production floor and into
another, well-lit production area. There
is a noticeable growl of a ventilation
system. Fat round air ducts crisscross
the ceiling, branch and reach down
to just above workbenches. The air is
fresh, with none of the residual odours
of glues, lacquers and sanded wood
that I would expect.
Lettering on 4 tall green columns
announces the work done on
production lines here: Credence/
Credenza;
Toilettes/Lavatories;
Cloison/Bulkheads and Cuisine/Galley.
Not that any business jet owners will
ever see the inside of this room. They
do, however, suggest some of the
reorganization that has taken place in
COMPLETE INTERIORS — Projects cover everything including the kitchen (and bathroom) sink. (Photo: C&D Aerospace Canada)
the past few years to introduce lean
manufacturing processes and make
more efficient use of employee time.
“The Challenger 605 program had
10 product-specific production lines
[that had inefficiencies] and we
had an unclear grasp of manpower
allocation,” explains William Cusano,
Lead Manufacturing Engineer for
C&D Aerospace Canada. “So we
created mixed model lines, reduced
the production lines to 4 and reduced
our product cycle time. This set-up
promoted improved problem solving
and a reduction in waste. These
improvements have freed up manpower
to support production lines that are
falling behind, or to put them on
special projects.”
The creation of
custom aircraft
interiors
starts
with Bombardier.
Its people discuss
ideas and designs
with clients and
forward concepts,
colours,
wood
finishes
and
layouts — such as
the 4 tables, 2 couches and chairs to be
produced by C&D Aerospace Canada.
There is plenty of back and forth to
refine details. Then C&D Aerospace
Canada designs, engineers, fabricates
and certifies the interiors before
shipping them back to Bombardier.
Bombardier workers will mate the
“plug and play” interiors to the aircraft
shells and hook up the plumbing, air
and electrical systems.
This production area is vaguely like
a carpentry shop, with some notable
differences. Nothing in aviation is
RESTS AND RELAXED — The finishing touches of armrests add to the sense of luxury. (Photo: C&D Aerospace Canada)
ever a minor project. In this facility,
a perfectly flat surface means a 6,000
pound granite slab measuring about
4 feet wide, 10 feet long and 10 inches
thick. There are at least a half dozen of
these on the shop floor.
The
production
lines include racks
of C-clamps, a rather
limited number of
tools, sanders, tape,
vices and computer
workstations.
But tucked in the
back of the room,
at the beginning
of the lines, is a
CNC machine that
cuts perfect parts
for
bulkheads,
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onto the Nomex. Nearby is a TimeSavers
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4x8-foot panel. Ductwork connects it to
the ventilation system.
Across an isle are a trio of
14x24-foot paint booths. Warning
signs on the doors remind “Respiratory
Protection Required.” A maintenance
schedule for compressed breathing
purifiers is posted between 2 of the
doors. A pair of air and paint hoses,
each with a different coupling to
prevent mix-ups, lie on the floor inside
one of the booths. Painters wear suits,
gloves and full-face respirators, but the
booths themselves are, in effect, giant
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entirely covered with panels of filters
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Tougher environmental regulations are leading to a new generation of
coatings and cleaners. Do you know how to use them?
By John G. Smith
Doug Snell freely admits that
tougher environmental rules present
a challenge for those who make and
use a variety of coatings. “We’re
moving away from what we know,”
says Krylon’s Canadian regional
manager, referring to changes that
have emerged. Citrus-based cleaners
have replaced many aggressive
solvents; oil-based (alkyd) paints are
largely becoming a thing of the past;
and unwanted gases are gradually
eliminated from aerosol cans.
Users simply need to be prepared for
the new procedures that accompany
the products.
Consider
the
biodegradable
additives that are used in a soy-based
graffiti remover. These solutions
replace aggressive methylene chloride
formulas that can contaminate the
ground at the bottom of a wall. But
biodegradable cleaners of every sort
may need to sit on a surface for a
longer period of time before they are
washed away.
The changes affect paints as well.
While Canada has traditionally
embraced many alkyd products
because they will stick to an
unprepared surface with ease, these
formulas are gradually being replaced
by latex paints that eliminate the
traditional “off gassing” of unwanted
solvents.
Even though today’s latex coatings
include higher volumes of solids to
create stronger finishes than ever
before, they require a little more
preparation before being applied.
“Latex paints are a bit more sensitive
to poorly prepared surfaces,” Snell
explains, adding that additional
options such as conversion primers
will be helpful when trying to cover
an alkyd-coated surface.
Of course, there are some
applications – like the surroundings
of
a
splash
and spill
zone,
or
a battery
charging
station – that
require
surfaces
to resist
chemicals
and
abrasions.
These jobs will likely
require an epoxy
coating, and they
can introduce some
additional steps
for workers who
are more familiar
with a traditional
paint. Once the 2
parts of an epoxy
are blended, they
can require a “sweat
in” time of 20 to 30
minutes before the
job can even begin.
Then it will need to
be used within the
defined “pot life”,
which can range
anywhere from 20
minutes to 8 hours.
“You have to mix
exactly what you
need, and it’s hard to mix small
quantities if you have a 1:4 ratio,” he
adds, noting how a product that can
be mixed as a 1:1 ratio will be better
when smaller batches are required.
Epoxy coatings will likely become
more common in the food and
beverage industries thanks to growing
interest by regulators including the
Canada Food Inspection Agency
and Agriculture Canada. Other
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industries could follow. Any
sectors with high visibility such
as mines, lumber mills, railways
or the military will likely see the
increased use of these options,
Snell suggests.
Aside from the coatings
themselves, today’s environmental
regulations have played a
big role in the way coatings
are delivered. A focus on
reducing Greenhouse Gases
(GHG) has certainly reduced the
methane, carbon monoxide and
fluorocarbons that can come out
of traditional aerosol cans.
“Getting away from aerosols
is the direction the market is
going,” Snell says, referring to
companies that have embraced
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GHG-free programs. The Ozone
Transport Council is also looking
for new ways to limit the release of
Greenhouse Gases, while related laws
are expected to be introduced next
year with a deadline set as early
as 2012.
Krylon has already responded by
producing 1,600 GHG-free products,
eliminating the nitrous oxide, methane
and hydrofluorocarbons that were
once found inside the cans. And it
has introduced refillable pump-action
containers for 18 popular Machinery
Repair and Overhaul products. “It
lends itself well to facilities that are
restricting aerosols,” he says.
There is another advantage to
the pump-action delivery methods.
When these cans are empty, there is
no gas left behind, so the aluminum
container can be easily recycled.
Meanwhile, a 55-gallon Aerosolv
Can Venting System can be used
to completely vent any traditional
containers, preparing them for the
recycling process as well.
Buyers simply need to be careful
to ensure that they understand the
extent of different environmental
claims when they are looking for
greener products. Some producers
make “green” promises after changing
nothing more than the packaging.
They are factors that lead Snell to
stress the need to review the chemical
make-up of different coatings. “Labels
can be deceiving,” he says. “Do the
due diligence. Read the MSDS.”
An extensive on-site audit offered
by Krylon personnel can also help
to match specific demands to a need
to be more environmentally sound,
he says.
“Where are you working? In a
plant?
Warehouse?
Healthcare?
Senior facilities? All the demands are
different. We look behind the door
and look in the cabinets and see what
you are using.”
It is only a matter of time before
many of the greener formulas are
required. Proactive companies –
especially those that are subsidiaries
of an American operation – have
already begun to introduce them into
processes of their own.
“You’ve got to be aware of this,”
Snell says of the trend toward greener
products. “This is what’s coming.”
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AIR POWER
Powered Air Purifying Respirators may be
a better fit for your employees
A negative pressure air purifying
respirator can be an uncomfortable
piece of equipment despite the best
efforts to ensure a proper fit. It
offers little relief in a hot and humid
environment, and the simple process
of sucking air through a filter can
be a tiring experience. Users are also
required to shave off facial hair as
it may interfere with their ability to
achieve a tight seal.
A Powered Air Purifying Respirator
(PAPR) could eliminate many of these
concerns.
Unlike a traditional negative pressure
air purifying respirator, which is
powered by a user’s own lungs, a PAPR
uses a motor to draw the ambient air
through the filtering media.
“Anyone who wears a traditional
negative pressure air purifying
respirator for more than 4 hours [at
a time] is a candidate for a PAPR,”
explains John Beach, 3M Canada’s
Business Development Manager –
Powered and Supplied Air. And the
powered devices offer some muchneeded support for anyone who
has a history of respiratory illness
or other health problems.
The extra relief does not end
there. Users are also cooled
by the constant flow of air
across their face.
These systems incorporate
a blower, battery, headpiece
and breathing tube, and
offer Assigned Protection
Factors ranging from 25 to
1,000. Depending on the model
selected, this means that users could
expect to inhale a maximum of 1/25 to
1/1000 of the airborne contaminants
which are present. In addition to that,
the systems can be combined with eye
and face protection, head protection
and even ear muffs.
The
National
Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) requires a loose-fitting PAPR
to deliver 170 litres of air per minute,
while a tight-fitting PAPR must deliver
140 litres. Still, not all of the PAPRs
are created equally. The related motors
can also be powered by a number
of different battery types.
Historically, units have
been powered by either
nickel-metal hydride
(NiMH) or nickelcadmium
(NiCd)
batteries.
The
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of
respirators
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(Li-ion). Li-ion batteries are lighter,
charge more quickly, are not subject
to self-discharge, do not suffer
from memory issues and are more
environmentally friendly.
Li-ion batteries may also last longer.
The lifespan of traditional batteries
(NiCd, NiMH) is limited by the number
of charge and discharge cycles. One
cycle is counted each time the batteries
are used and then charged – regardless
of the amount of time they were used.
“Say a battery’s normal operating
use is 10 hours and you used it for
2 hours and plugged it in,” Beach
explains. “You’ve used only 20% of
a charge cycle.” In this example, a
user would reach one full cycle by the
end of the week. In contrast, a NiMH
or NiCd battery would accumulate
5 cycles by the end of the week. By
the end of the year, the Li-ion battery
would have totalled 52 cycles while
the NiMH or NiCd battery would have
reached 250 cycles.
The NiCd and NiMH batteries
generally last approximately
400-600 cycles. Newer PAPR units
incorporating Li-ion batteries are
generally good for approximately 250
cycles.
In addition, the Li-ion battery will
always deliver its full capacity, he
adds. Even as the battery discharges,
it delivers a consistent flow of air. A
NiMH battery with a 10-hour rating
may deliver as much as 12 hours of
power after an initial charge, but that
capacity will gradually trickle away as
the power supply begins to age.
There is another advantage to using
a PAPR, and it comes in the form of
flow indicators that show exactly
when any air-cleansing filter
media needs to be changed.
“The
most
recent
PAPR
blower units
are equipped with
automatic
flow
control,” he says.
“The motor speed
is regulated during
operation
to compensate for the charge state of
the battery pack and the increasing
level of airflow resistance caused by
filter loading. Should the airflow
fall below the minimum design flow
rate, an audible alarm will sound and
a LED will flash to warn the user to
immediately leave the contaminated
environment. Similarly, an audible
and visual low battery alarm will
activate when the battery pack has
approximately 15 minutes of charge
remaining, to warn the user to leave
the contaminated area.”
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Proper glove options prevent injuries and increase productivity
By Mike Beaudin
Pascal Pothier uses a simple approach
when it comes to convincing people to
wear gloves in the workplace. He lets
the gloves do the talking for him.
When workers discover today’s gloves
are comfortable, fit perfectly and are
matched to the hazards of the workplace
they rarely have to be reminded to wear
them, says Pothier, a Safety and Mill
Supply Specialist for Kinecor.
That’s good news considering almost
25% of all workplace injuries are to
the hands, resulting in lost time and
productivity and increased insurance
claims. Pothier says hand injuries are
declining as more employers become
aware of the different gloves that are
available.
“The main thing I find is that people
are not aware of the products that are
available,” he says. “That’s especially
true among more experienced workers
who have worked for a number of years
without wearing gloves on the job. Old
habits can be hard to change.”
Hand injuries are common across the
workplace. Bruises, scratches, infections
and allergic reactions are the most
common. Wearing proper gloves can
prevent almost all of them. Some injuries
are also caused because workers are
wearing ill-fitted or improper gloves for
the job. Many workplaces, for example,
rely on leather gloves, thinking thicker
means tougher.
“They don’t realize that leather is just
a form of skin,” says Pothier. “It doesn’t
offer much protection when you’re
working with things like chemicals. They
think the new synthetic gloves are so
thin they don’t offer as much protection
as leather. But actually they’re often 10
times stronger.”
Those misconceptions change quickly
when workers are shown all the options
and the assortment of sizes. The most
effective way for a workplace to
determine what gloves are necessary is
to have a specialist come in, assess each
workstation and recommend the proper
gloves for each job.
Some employers balk at the price of
outfitting workers with proper gloves
that can easily cost as much as $50 or
more a pair. Considering some workers
need 2 different sets of gloves for their
job, the bill can add up.
But employers often don’t realize how
much they’re spending on gloves that
wear out quickly or simply don’t do the
job.
“In one situation a worker sanding
wood all day was going through 2 pairs
a dime or pick up a seed with gloves that
are perfectly contoured to your hand
and safer for workers.”
Watson Gloves also works directly
with employers by conducting
plant surveys, assessing the risks
of different jobs and offering
special
solutions
to
difficult
problems. Dally recalls designing
gloves for a scientist who needed
bite-proof gloves because she worked
with monkeys. They also outfitted
transit workers in Toronto who had
to stick their hands down the back
of seats only to find all kinds of
nasty surprises including needles
and razor blades.
“People are a lot more aware of
hand protection”
~ Bruce Dally, Watson Gloves
of cheap leather gloves in a day,” says
Pothier. “He chose a pair of nylon gloves
from us and one pair lasted him 5 weeks.
It was half the price of leather.”
Of course, there also are the hidden
costs of dealing with an injured worker.
Short-term sick leave benefits, increased
insurance
premiums,
government
reports, lost productivity and increased
training costs far outweigh the costs of
buying good gloves.
Bruce Dally, Vice President of Sales and
Marketing for Watson Gloves, a leading
maker of gloves for both industry and
the home, says many employers now
understand the importance of hand
protection.
“Safety is paramount in the workplace
today,” he says. “People are a lot more
aware of hand protection.”
Dally says the best gloves offer absolute
protection while enabling many workers
to do their jobs better. “You can pick up
Some
jobs
have
ergonomic
requirements calling for gloves
that reduce hand fatigue. There
are hundreds of different gloves
designed to cover a variety of uses
and environments.
Given the cost of good gloves, Watson
also helps employers come up with
programs to stop workers from throwing
out their gloves too soon.
But it’s not just about protection. It
seems gloves in some workplaces are
also a fashion statement. Dally says
some occupations like construction
workers are willing to pay a little
extra for gloves that look like they
were designed more for a NASCAR
driver than the workplace.
“They’re like performance gloves,” he
says. “They protect well but also look
cool. It’s like owning a pair of Levi’s
jeans. You just have to have them.”
Once again, the gloves do the talking.
UNPLUGGED
Wireless technology solving plant management challenges
By Paul Bremner
Measuring fluid levels in storage tanks.
Monitoring vibration in rotating machinery.
Tracking emissions to comply with
government standards. To manage an
industrial operation effectively, you need to
know what’s happening in every corner of
your facility—and you need to know right
now.
Unfortunately, retrieving that information
has always been a challenge. In many
industrial settings hard-wired sensors and
transmitters are too costly and complicated
to install. As a result, it’s common for field
operators to spend valuable time manually
recording data from individual sensors.
The industrial world is ready for a wireless
solution, and Honeywell has delivered with
OneWireless.
“Industrial manufacturers are turning to
wireless technology to capture data that was
previously unreachable,” says Steve Major of
Honeywell Field Solutions. “Our customers
are using Honeywell’s OneWireless to help
make their plants more reliable and their
employees more efficient, while increasing
overall safety. And it’s contributing to their
bottom line.”
OneWireless is a rugged, industrial-grade
wireless mesh network that extends the
process control network into the field. It
uses an array of industrial wireless nodes,
called multinodes, which “self-discover” to
create an industrial mesh network within
seconds.
OneWireless is specifically designed
for applications in hazardous or remote
locations, with no access to power, where
users must cope with frequent instrument
changes.
The system features built-in redundancy
for exceptional reliability. If one of the
network nodes malfunctions, the rest of
the nodes can still communicate with each
other. And as it operates through a powered
infrastructure, the system’s transmitters can
send data with no need to dual task. This
allows for one-second data updates and a
battery life of up to 10 years.
The flexibility of OneWireless, and the
array of Honeywell products that plug into
it, allow for a wide range of applications in
just about any industrial setting.
ENAP, Chile’s largest supplier of crude oil
products, is one company that has become
an enthusiastic adopter of Honeywell’s
wireless technology.
For more than 30 years, Chile’s
was cumbersome and costly: Technicians
manually recorded inner temperatures on
3 rotary machines filled with a spinning
solution, while infrared-ray sensors
beside the machines monitored surface
temperatures.
FCFC opted for the OneWireless Starter
Kit, which includes 2 Honeywell XYR
wireless transmitters. The transmitters are
flexible and scalable. If required, FCFC
could easily add sensors to monitor gauge
pressure, absolute pressure, differential
pressure and corrosion, in addition to
temperature.
OneWireless can provide users with a
continuous flow of real time data from
remote locations. But perhaps its greatest
benefit is the way it empowers people to
act on that information through wireless
“Industrial manufacturers are turning to
wireless technology to capture data that
was previously unreachable”
~ Steve Major, Honeywell Field Solutions
environmental regulations had required
all industrial projects to pass a rigorous
environmental impact test. Recently, the
Chilean authorities set the bar even higher,
requiring companies to monitor and collect
real-time environmental data for water
being discharged into the ocean.
Until that point, the field operators at its
Aconcagua refinery had made a weekly
trek to collect data from their recorders. The
company needed a technology solution to
meet the tough new regulations.
In 2009, ENAP installed a OneWireless
network with 6 High Level Analog Input
(HLAI) transmitters. This enabled control
room employees to quickly and easily
monitor water discharge according to
government standards.
Across the Pacific, in Taiwan, Formosa
Chemicals & Fiber Corporation (FCFC) is
another convert to OneWireless.
FCFC had been struggling with its
own challenge: Monitoring equipment
temperature at its rayon plant. The system
handheld devices. It allows a rich assortment
of content to be communicated to field
operators, such as work orders, tasks,
procedures, alphanumeric data (equipment
location/type, serial numbers, testing/repair
procedures, etc.), and images.
Wireless-enabled field operators can
collect maintenance and equipment data
in up to 30% fewer hours than manual
systems, with better than 99% accuracy.
They can then return completed records
and inspection results through their device,
including signatures.
With the information they receive
from people in the field, maintenance
engineering and console supervisors can
detect and diagnose potential problems
before they become equipment failures.
“Wireless technology has already
revolutionized personal and business
communication,” says Major. “Now
industry has begun to recognize that
wireless networks can drive business
results as well.”
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MEETING THE
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Canadian Fluid Power Association introduces students
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By John G. Smith
Cameron Bell admits he struggled
with the velocity ratio when
developing his latest hydraulic
system. It took the work of his entire
team – including Marganna Turner,
Samantha Troendle and Scott Sedran
– to overcome the challenge. But
Kingsway Public School were up to
the task.
“It’s a lot harder than it looks,”
Marganna observes, referring to
the lifter that they made with a
combination of wooden blocks and
water-filled syringes.
They were among the teams
OVERALL VIEW – Teams need to combine their efforts to complete the projects. (Photo: John G. Smith)
participating in the latest Canadian
Fluid Power Challenge, an initiative
introduced 10 years ago by the
Canadian Fluid Power Association
(CFPA) and supported by Kinecor.
The competition was originally
known as the Hill Top Technical
Skills Challenge, but gradually
expanded throughout the Toronto
District School Board. And in an
era when shop classes have largely
become a thing of the past, it has
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lessons. “There are not a lot of things
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Students begin with a
vision and produce their
own version of a
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(Photo: John G. Smith)
The event is a perfect balance of
theory and application. The teams
learn about basic theory in a oneday workshop in the classroom,
and are given a chance to build a
simple lifter to apply the different
principles. In some cases it is
their first exposure to isometric
and orthographic drawings, or the
principles of structural strength and
stability. Then they are presented
with the challenge that needs to be
solved 3 weeks later. That leaves
time for planning, prototypes, tests
and revisions.
They learn some important planning
skills in the process. Teams need to
order their materials in advance, and
collect them from an onsite store,
limiting the amount of work that can
be done by the seat of their pants. A
pre-set budget for the supplies helps
to demonstrate the importance of
cost efficiency, and the entire project
showcases the steps that are required
to repeat a project multiple times.
“What they’re actually learning
here is the process of design,” says
Stephen Rogers, who was responsible
for overseeing requests for supplies.
“They have to act like a company and
they have to put in a supply list.
“What impresses me the most
is each year I come here and see
different solutions to the same
problems. The inventiveness of each
design is what gets me,” he adds.
Some of the lifters are simple, or
could even be described as elegant,
while other complex designs face the
threat of potential failure points that
come with them.
“The commitment to the task and
the level of cooperation and the
creativity that comes into the project,
it’s quite amazing,” says Gord Jarvis,
one of the judges for the event. “It’s
a very unique, practical approach to
learning.”
“There’s writing, math, drawing
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referring to the portfolio that will
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and the students need to create the
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teacher. Of course, there are also
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was developed for Grade 8 students.
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math,” says John Bachmann of the
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It is a learning process for the teachers
as well. The CFPA has arranged related
field trips to locales like Canada’s
Wonderland, Bombardier, Rubbermaid
and food processing plants. “We want
to show them a hands-on application,”
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LEADING
THE WAY
Graduates earn Canada’s first Industrial
Distribution Leadership Certificates
By John G. Smith
Brian Tombolini had already spent more
than a decade in the world of industrial
distribution, but he knew there was
more to learn. Thanks to a new program
offered through Mohawk College in
Hamilton, Ontario, he had the chance
to learn it.
The Customer Service Representative
at Kinecor’s branch in Stoney Creek,
Ontario is now one of the first
holders of a new Industrial
Distribution Leadership Certificate,
which is the first designation of
its kind in Canada.
“It’s very practical and it
offers a lot of tools you can
incorporate
right
away
into your everyday job,”
Tombolini says, referring
to the benefits of the
training that he took
during evenings and
weekends over the last
2 years. “The people
who developed it knew the
industry.”
He is right. The course
was developed by a team of
industry leaders — including
Kinecor Central Region
Vice President Richard
Ayuen — who recognized
the need for a training program
in a sector where employees have
traditionally been limited to learning
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course averaged about 10 years of
experience in industrial distribution,
and they were working in roles as
diverse as customer service, inside
sales, operations, inventory controls,
warehousing,
technical
support,
engineering and outside sales. Their
businesses were involved in everything
from electrical to industrial, hydraulics,
bearing and power transmission
applications.
“I think what it speaks to is [that]
this is a long unfulfilled need in the
market,” suggests the Canadian Fluid
Power Association’s John Bachmann,
one of the architects of the program.
“The majority were there because they
wanted to learn,” adds Carmen Stewart,
Gerrie Electric Wholesale’s Chief
Marketing Officer. “The fact that most
had previous work experience actually
made the course more interesting and,
in my opinion, more worthwhile for the
students. We would discuss real-world
business practices, which you would
not normally get from a textbook.”
A series of 6 modules covered business
fundamentals, leadership, operations,
negotiations, customer service, sales
and marketing, with all of the lessons
being applied in a final “capstone”
course. And the lessons delivered
both online and in a classroom setting
promise to have a direct impact on
customer service.
Related lessons in the art of
communication will help to eliminate
many potential challenges before
they ever have a chance to emerge,
Bachmann says as an example. “So
much of what can go wrong is poor
communication in the workplace.
We’re giving them the tools to
communicate better and avoid the
breakdowns that result in mistakes
and rework.”
Lessons that help to guide negotiations
with suppliers or help to manage the
“max-mins” of inventory levels will
certainly help to control the prices on
different invoices, Tombolini adds.
The new program may be particularly
timely given some of the economic
pressures emerging in the world of
industrial distribution.
Ayuen refers to an aging workforce
as just one example. “There are a huge
number of Baby Boomers employed
and leading these organizations today,
and there is a drop in talent coming
in,” he says. “We need to develop the
leaders of the future, and that’s what
this program offers.”
The recent economic downturn has
presented its own need, adds IBM’s
Paul St. Germain, who was also on
the team that developed the program.
“As the economy starts to recover,
at Mohawk’s School of Continuing
Education, says that’s understandable.
“Many folks didn’t even finish Grade 12
for many reasons and they aren’t sure
they’re able to succeed. It’s common
for them to be extremely nervous,”
she says of mature students. But this
group obviously overcame any nerves.
Out of the 24 students who appeared
on the first day of classes, 20 of them
graduated. “It really is remarkable,”
MacDonald says, noting how other
continuing education programs tend
to face higher attrition rates.
Other educators have also recognized
the value of the program. It was chosen
from across Ontario’s college system
as the winner of the 2009 CONNY
Award for unique and innovative
programming.
“I think what it speaks to is this is a
long unfulfilled need in the market”
~ Canadian Fluid Power Association’s John Bachmann
[distributors] are going to be looking
for a higher level of productivity among
their existing employees.”
“The economy as a whole has really
changed our organizations,” Ayuen
agrees. “They are going to have to
change the way they go to market
and change the way they operate.”
The students learned their lessons
with the help of 9 professors who all
had extensive industry experience.
But the training did not end there.
Many of the students needed support
with traditional study skills after
being away from school so long.
“Instead of thinking of what they
learned, they try to answer what
they learned in their own personal
experience instead of what they
learned
in
class,”
Bachmann
explains.
Patricia MacDonald, Associate Dean
Those who developed the program
are even looking to extend the reach
of their work. A traditional $900 fee
for international studies has been
cut in half as they look to educate
U.S. students, and the content is
being promoted through a variety of
industries and trade associations.
Stewart says those who committed
their time to creating the program
benefitted as well.
“It has been a great experience for
me,” he says. “I have been fortunate to
be able to share my experiences with
others and at the same time learn more
about our industry and what makes it
work — or in some cases, not work.”
This is one experience that obviously
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The improper use of compressed air
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main dangers encountered while
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matter, what are the solutions that
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called a hose whip can reach speeds
of up to 150 kilometres per hour.
However, several products exist to
reduce this danger — including a 2step safety quick coupler that allows
for depressurization prior to the
disconnection; or, an anti hose whip
safety valve, which instantly reduces
air flow to safe levels when a line
ruptures or a large pressure drop is
detected. Occupational Safety and
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1926.302(b)(7) stipulates that all
hoses exceeding a 1⁄2-inch inside
diameter must have a safety device
at the source of supply or at the
connection point, to reduce the
pressure in case of a hose failure.
• Hose Whip
When a pressurized hose breaks or
detaches, the resulting movement
• Cutting, drilling operations
Drilling, cutting or other similar
operations can involve considerable
6 steps to reduce risks with
compressed air
risk. A 2-hand, anti-tiedown safety
unit requires both hands to activate a
machine. This significantly reduces
the danger associated with this
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to workers, the most serious being
a pulmonary embolism caused
by direct contact with the skin.
Debris can also be blown into the
eyes or onto the skin, causing lesions
that can lead to infections.
To reduce these risks, OSHA
requires the static pressure at the
point of a blockage to be no more
than 30 psi. There are 2 ways to
limit the pressure at a blocked
outlet — rendering a blow gun safe
by using a pressure regulator set at
30 psi, or using a safety blow gun that
prevents a total blockage, satisfying
the OSHA standard.
The ideal solution to this issue is to
use a compressed air vacuum unit to
clean the work area. This will avoid
the spread of debris and dust in the
work environment. A vacuum unit is
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dust from workers’ clothing.
• Lockout Valves
Unexpected pressurization of a
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the sudden activation of a tool
or machine, resulting in serious
injuries. Several options exist to
avoid this danger, such as lockable
safety exhaust ball valves and highflow safety exhaust/lockout valves.
• Tripping
Hoses, which are left lying on
workshop floors, represent a tripping
danger for workers. Hose reels are
an ideal way to avoid these types
of accidents. Hose reels also have
the added benefit of protecting and
prolonging the life of hoses.
• Blow Guns
Blow guns are often used to clean work
• Excessive noise
Excessive noise constitutes a real
health hazard in the workplace.
Continuous or repeated exposure to
sound levels exceeding 90dB causes
permanent hearing loss.
Noise generated by blow guns
and pneumatic valves often exceed
allowable limits set by health and
safety agencies. This is why it’s
important to choose blow guns that
are designed to minimize noise levels.
Also, pneumatic mufflers lower
the exhaust noise associated with
valves. These actions will diminish
the risk of hearing loss and improve
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Material courtesy of Veyance Technologies
The secret of synchronous belt performance
is in the tensioning. The right tools can make
the difference
By Ron Francis
Applications Engineer
Veyance Technologies
– manufacturer and marketer of
Goodyear Engineered Products
As much as synchronous belts have evolved,
there is one factor that remains the key to
proper performance – and it comes in the
form of proper tensioning.
First-generation synchronous belts, which
date back to the 1940s, usually include a flat
plane trapezoidal shape. The tensile member
is polyester, fiberglass filament or even steel.
In contrast, 2nd-generation synchronous
belts introduced in the early 1970s have a
curvilin-ear tooth profile — a tooth design
loosely based on an involute tooth gear
model. The exact shape varies in small ways
between manufacturers, but the sprocketto-belt fit is always more precise than firstgeneration belts. Second-generation belts
also incorporate a high-modulus tensile
member (cords) engineered of fiberglass,
aramid or a blend of the 2.
Proper tensioning is paramount
when working with the newer generation
of belts. Power transmission drives
that incorporate synchronous belts
are essentially precision gear trains,
with one gear component (the belt)
made of elastomer materials. A proper
mesh between components is critical
to optimizing performance and service
life, just like it is with traditional all-metal
gear trains. More specifically, the pitch
and operating tension of a belt are directly
related, so tension must be well controlled for
proper pitch. This is increasingly important
as the belt’s operating speed increases.
The good news is that the latest
synchronous belts include very stable, highmodulus tensile members that maintain
proper pitch dimensions over wide load
ranges. Modern manufacturing processes
also create precise, close-tolerance belts.
However, if the tension is set too high or too
low, the belts will still not mesh because their
pitch falls out of sync with their pulleys.
V belts are not as sensitive to fit but they
do face issues with general efficiency. These
designs deliver their driving forces with
friction between the driving faces of the
belt and the pulley’s sidewalls. Tensioning
conditions directly affect power transmission
as well as the abrasion wear of belts and
pulleys alike.
Applied tension must stay above a
minimum level to overcome any slip
between the belt and pulley. The trouble
is that tension in a V-belt system usually
decreases during routine use.
Belt tension is still a critical
component, but the average tension in a
V-configured belt can be 30% more
than that of a comparable synchronous
belt. The generally accepted best practice is
to check and reset the tension on a regular
schedule.
A synchronous belt operates on
tooth engagement rather than pure
friction. Therefore, the tension required to
successfully operate a synchronous drive can
be considerably lower. If proper installation
procedures are followed, a synchronous belt
should generally not require periodic tension
adjustments.
Manufacturers provide tensioning
target values that are based upon specific
application conditions — which are a
function of the required belt pull and,
in turn, a function of required torque
and pulley diameter. But even when the
target tension is known, the traditional
force-deflection method of installing
the belt and setting the tension can be
a challenge.
This is where refined instruments come
into play.
Professional musicians know that the
vibration frequency of a plucked string is
determined by the tension applied to that
string. Laboratory tests show that power
transmission belts react in a similar manner.
There is a direct relationship between belt
tension and a belt’s natural frequency
of vibration. In effect, a strummed belt
can indicate the belt tension setting if
a technician is equipped to receive and
translate the message.
There are at least 2 ways to detect belt
vibration.
The vibration itself — a rapid back-andforth dislocation of the belt strand — is a
motion that produces a disturbance in the
air immediately surrounding the belt. While
such a cyclic disturbance presents itself as a
waveform at or slightly below the audible
spectrum, the specialized microphones of
acoustic-type sensors can “hear” the pressure
differentials of the air disturbance. These
sensors then provide the input signal for a
belt frequency meter. In this way, acoustical
meters provide indirect measurements of
belt vibration by sensing air disturbances
around the belt.
A major challenge in gathering an
acoustic measurement is that there can be
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It is difficult to separate the actual belt
noise from ambient noise. Belt tension
should be based on recommended
parameters and not, for example, on
parameters supplemented by the blade
rotation of a shop-ventilating fan. As a
result, most acoustical meters feature a gain
adjustment or internal circuitry to tune out
a portion of the ambient noise, but with
varying success.
In contrast, optical belt frequency meters
directly measure belt vibration. Using solidstate infrared technology, the sensor actually
sees the surface of the belt and observes any
displacement. In this way, the sensor is free
of bias from events or stray signals, and
only measures the target belt’s vibration.
Acoustical and optical meters both monitor
sensor output and report a frequency in
Hertz. Most meters also include software
programmed to provide some rudimentary
calculations. Once the operator selects a
measurement system and inputs some basic
drive constants such as the span length, belt
mass and weight per unit length, the meter
can report tensioning results in standard
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Technologies)
force units such as pounds-force or Newtons.
These results are then compared to target
values computed for the application, or to
more generic target values that are based
on belt properties. With this comparison,
the drive centre distance is either increased
or decreased until the measured tension
matches the target tension.
But again, optical measurement of belt
vibration frequency is inherently more
accurate and reliable than acoustical
readings. Optical belt frequency meters are
durable and error-free, and most belt-drive
analysis programs are already programmed
to simultaneously report target belt vibration
frequency in Hertz and traditional tension
force values. All this streamlines installation
and subsequent maintenance inspections.
In fact, manufacturer drive analysis
programs are usually available at no cost
from power transmission distributors or their
websites. Most can even run the program for
a customer. The customer service department
only needs the application’s basic parameters
to provide tensioning information, including
belt vibration frequency.
Some tips: A copy of the results should
be kept in a permanent application file.
The installer should be equipped with the
frequency target and a state-of-the-art
optical belt frequency meter. A good belt
frequency meter measures the vibration
frequency of all belt styles, even from
different manufacturers. When tensioning
a set of multiple belts, the installer should
focus the sensor on a single belt toward the
array’s centre.
The full benefits of optical measurement
are realized during maintenance checks,
because technicians only need to shut down
the drive, aim the sensor, thump the belt and
read the results.
Another tip: Hand rotating the system
and taking multiple readings at different
belt orientations may help identify
problems with other drive components.
Tension excursions indicate component
problems such as bent shafts, poorly
mounted sprockets or pulleys, or irregular
pulley grooves.
SELECTING
SORBENTS
Material courtesy of ITW Devcon
What are you using?
By Ian Goodland
Business Manager
There are many spill control products
on the market. Some have been
around a long time, while others
have only appeared in recent years.
The compounds themselves range
from traditional clay-based sorbents
to cotton, corn cobs, recycled
newspaper, peat moss, vermiculite
and polypropylene.
How do you decide what’s right
for your application? It’s not
always easy. But there are 5 distinct
criteria to consider before making a
decision:
Performance — First and foremost,
beware of hyped-up performance
statistics such as “how many times
its own weight” the product will
absorb. Liquids are usually measured
by volume, and the most accurate
means of assessing absorbency is to
compare the volume of absorbency
capacity. Another important factor is
the speed of absorbency. You should
also consider if the product contains
ingredients that may be harmful to
the user, if the absorbent can suppress
harmful vapours from entering the
workplace, if it leaves residue, and
if it leaches after initial absorption.
Every one of these factors could
result in additional disposal costs.
Cleanup costs — The cost
of spill control products is
not the only cost to calculate
when assessing spill control
programs.
Other
factors
are
product efficiency, disposal costs
and labour.
Disposal options — When assessing
disposal options, costs vary according
to the type of spill control product
used. Some incinerators, for example,
charge less to dispose of a cellulosebased sorbent than a polypropylene
or clay sorbent. (Cellulose-based
sorbents offer a “controlled burn”
and high BTU factors, plus
they leave a residue of less
than one percent ash.) Look
for a product that offers
good bio-degradation and
is acceptable to your waste
management company.
Technical assistance — When
selecting a supplier of spill control
products, consider what level of
technical support is offered. Can
the supplier train your employees?
Does the supplier ask for a list of all
chemicals used at the facility and
make recommendations based on that
information? Is there a 24-hour phone
number? And does the supplier offer a
comprehensive spill control program
to address all your concerns?
Product availability — The nature of
the spill control business dictates that
products must be readily available in
sufficient quantities to address your
worst-case scenario. Make sure you
and your supplier are prepared for a
rapid response. Adequate inventories
should be maintained strategically
throughout a facility to limit the
extent of a spill. Your supplier should
also be in a position to immediately
respond with backup materials for all
locations.
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AIR HOSE
FIELD REPAIR KITS
Timken Industrial
Sleeves
No shop or job site should be
without these Fairview Field Repair
Kits. FKAR-1 & FKAR-2 kits contain
the hose repair components, quick disconnects and
compressor accessories you need, where you need them,
when you need them.
SOURCE: Fairview Fittings www.fairviewfittings.com
Timken now offers Redi-Sleeves® as
part of its industrial seals product
offering. Made from ultra-thin
precision stainless steel and ground to a 10-20 microinch finish, these sleeves are designed to be easily pressed
onto a shaft, providing a corrosion-free, enhanced sealing
surface.
Redi-Sleeves are a fast, inexpensive repair option for
grooved or worn shafts and come in sizes ranging from
one-half- to 8-inch diameter.
SOURCE: Timken Canada www.timken.com
Service KIT
Mac steel pintle chain
Mac steel pintle chain features a one-piece
fully heat-treated steel link with quad-staked
pin construction. It is recommended for a
wide range of applications such as spreaders,
feeder systems, hay-handling equipment and
paver systems. The open barrel eliminates
chain freezing due to build-up of sawdust or
dirt between the sprocket and chain barrel.
SOURCE: Mac Chain
www.macchain.com
The handy SERVICE KIT
includes a multitude of technical devices
used to carry out a number of optimisations to
existing drives.
SOURCE: OPTIBELT www.optibelt.ca
316SS Magnetically Driven Pumps
Price expands line of 316SS magnetically driven pumps. Flows to 350
GPM, Heads to 300 feet.
Seal-less design is safer, no
leakage from worn seals,
and lower maintenance.
High quality Samarium
Cobalt magnets offer greater
temperature capability.
SOURCE: Price® Pump
www.pricepump.com
4” and 5” Sandwich wheels
The Colson ® sandwich wheels offer the qualities of a cushioning smooth ride
while featuring a hard, yet easy rolling outer, nylon wheel tread. Minimizes
vibration effects, and rolls easily over obstructions and floor imperfections.
An integrated precision sealed bearing with conjoining thread guards ensures
a very quick, quiet ride over in any application environment.
Go green with FasorbTM
and Absorbent W
Both FasorbTM and Absorbent W are the most cost-effective and environmentally responsible
choice for all types of liquid leaks and spills clean-up. FasorbTM is 100% organic and is five
times more effective than clay, and Absorbent W absorbs more oil faster than traditional
Polypropylene absorbents. Also ideal for spills on water or for oil and water separation.
SOURCE: ITW Devcon www.devcon.com
Floor PatchTM Resurfacer
restores floors like new
Floor PatchTM Resurfacer is a three-part filled epoxy system for concrete floors
where aggregate is exposed. This self leveling product mixes easily, is ideal for
repairing damaged concrete and rebuilding to depths of 1⁄4” to 1” inch.
SOURCE: ITW Devcon www.devcon.com
Fenner Drives’ B-LOC® Keyless
Bushings & Shrink Discs
Backed by North America’s largest inventory of product
ready for same-day shipment, the best customer support
in the industry, and the engineering expertise and
manufacturing agility to provide custom solutions,
B-LOC® Keyless Bushings & Shrink Discs provide the
perfect shaft/hub connection! Using a mechanical
interference fit that provides infinite radial and axial adjustment, they
offer simple installation, adjustment and removal, even in the field.
SOURCE: Fenner Drives www.fennerdrives.com
Poly Chain® GT®
CarbonTM
The world’s most powerful synchronous belt drive system. Gates
has proven that the power density of a Poly Chain GT Carbon belt
drive system matches that of conventional roller chain drives and
many gear drive systems as well.
SOURCE: GATES CANADA INC.
www.gatesprograms.com/carbon
Totally accessible at all times =
Cost savings!
The Cooper bearing is completely split to the shaft. This
feature alone save countless hours on installation
and inspection. There is no need to remove ancillary equipment to check or install a Cooper bearing.
Inspection is simple. Simply remove the pedestal cap
and the top part of the cartridge housing and outer
race assembly. The entire bearing is now ready for
inspection.
This applies to every Cooper bearing, no matter how
large or the type of mounting, every Cooper bearing can be inspected and maintained in this way.
SOURCE: COOPER-GRAINGER
www.cooper-grainger.com
Delivering Lower Total
Cost of Ownership
Through Reliable
Solutions
The Rexnord Promise
For more than 100 years, Rexnord has
delivered reliable solutions and service to
industry around the world. Rexnord customers
have depended on our premium quality,
design, performance and technical support
to lower their Total Cost of Ownership. Our
well-known brands include Falk™, Rexnord®,
Link-Belt®, Thomas®, TableTop®, MatTop®,
MCC®, MB®, and Marbett®. Rexnord has a
global reputation for quality, service and value
in industries as diverse as food and beverage
processing, mining and quarrying, forest, pulp,
and paper products, construction equipment,
hydrocarbon processing, water management,
and cement and bulk material handling.
Rexnord is a diversified multiplatform industrial company
that manufactures and markets power transmission and
water management products. We are driven to provide
innovative solutions and deliver superior service, thus
reducing your Total Cost of Ownership.
Bearings
Couplings
Bearings
Gear
Products
PRODUCTSHOWCASE
Goodyear Engineered
Products Eagle NRGTM
Introducing the next generation in
synchronous belt technology, Eagle
NRGTM. Offering higher horsepower rating,
improved operating temperature range with
a rubber compound formulated to resist
tooth deformity and tooth rigidity, Eagle
NRGTM will help you save energy costs by
improving the performance of your drive
design.
SOURCE: Veyance Technologies Canada, Inc.
Permco Transition
Pumps
Designed for OEM applications using
the 360/257/197/124 sleeve bushing
series, where a combination of high
and low displacements are needed in
one combined unit. PERMCO Quality,
the Sensible Choice.
SOURCE: PERMCO www.permco.com
The Best Single-point Automatic Lubricator
Just Got Better!
SKF has improved the SYSTEM 24 single–point automatic lubricator with the following
product enhancements: It has intrinsically safe approval for Zone 0; it features an easy
to remove end cap that covers the lubricant outlet; sharp tools are no longer required to
open the unit; the easy installation slot allows simple and accurate adjustment of lubrication flow.
SOURCE: SKF www.skf.ca
Goodyear Engineered
Products Falcon HTC®
Food Grade
Silicone Lubricant
• Meets FDA regulation for incidental
food contact
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
approved
• NSF® Certified: H1 Registration # 113815 (Aerosol)
• Dry film will not attract dust or dirt
• Provides excellent lubrication
• Ideal for releasing molded parts
• Fast evaporating
• Excellent for high temperature applications
up to 260°C (500°F)
• Does not contain chlorinated solvents
SOURCE: LPS www.lpslabs.com
A revolutionary new drive change system that can easily and seamlessly
replace old-fashioned chain drives. Falcon HTC® can replace the
problematic chain drive with a clean and quiet rubber compound
belt that delivers exceptional performance under higher torque and
lower speed applications. The Falcon HTC® system is designed to
accommodate today’s high-efficiency motors.
SOURCE: Veyance Technologies Canada, Inc.
#4-Series Top-Lock Brake
With capacity of up to 1,400 lbs each, the Colson 4 series top lock brake is cost
effective and provides reliable braking under a variety of operating conditions. Brake
design places a positive locking force against the entire footprint of wheel to hold loads
securely in place.
MECHATRONIC MUSCLE
Festo solutions added to Kinecor product lines
By John G. Smith
At first glance, there may seem to be little in
common between mechatronic equipment
and the natural world. The mechanized
tools are designed to move things more
accurately, quickly and effectively than
any individual worker ever could. But
Festo was inspired by the motions of an
elephant’s trunk when creating a new
biometric handling system. The result
involving a ball joint and adaptive “Fin
Gripper” offers smooth movements and
strength alike.
It is just one example of new
technology emerging from the world
leader in mechatronics – in this case,
pushing the boundaries of science with
heavy industrial robots that can connect
humans and machines.
Now, Kinecor is distributing Festo’s
solutions, offering customers access to as
many as 30,000 different products that
can enhance industrial processes.
“You can cover a lot of applications
with hydraulics, but not all of them,”
notes Festo National Distribution
Manager Andreas Sobotta, referring to
the technology that is available. “That’s
where pneumatics comes into play.”
The company investigated as many
as 40 different distributors before it
decided on working with Kinecor, in
part because of their extensive presence
across Canada. “From my point of view,
the key decision maker was the technical
knowledge of the people — the engineers
that Kinecor has on staff. They have an
ability to not only take orders but also
to work on solutions for the customer,”
he adds.
The solutions keep coming. Festo
is working with technology that
continues to evolve at every turn.
Technical advances are leading to
smaller, more accurate, and more
powerful pneumatic components
and
electrical
drives,
while
related valves continue to shrink
in size.
Sobotta refers to a team at Festo’s head
office in Germany, which is devoted to
stretching the abilities of technology.
“They have one department that is doing
nothing but thinking of innovations [to
be introduced] 5 years from now,” he
says. “They’re thinking differently and
out of the box.”
The same team is using a 3D simulator
to track the flow of air as it passes through
every bend or twist in the company’s
valve designs. “You can basically fly
through the valve as an air molecule and
experience turbulence or not,” Sobatta
adds. The insight leads to designs that
improve overall efficiency, and smaller
valves obviously deliver big returns. “In
an application for the food and beverage
industry, where you need stainless steel
panels, those stainless steel panels can be
pricy,” he says as an example. As designs
become more precise, they are also able
to support higher production rates.
Festo equipment is now used everywhere
from breweries to food processing plants
and dairy operations. And it is making
big differences in productivity along the
way. A brewery that fills about 50,000
bottles an hour can suddenly support
60,000 bottles an hour with the right
equipment. A machine that seems to
require a new cylinder or actuator every
6 months can suddenly begin to enjoy an
extended service life.
“Some customers just ask for a
replacement, but we ideally take a look
at their equipment,” he says, referring to
the advantages that can often be realized.
“We show them ways to be faster and
more efficient.”
Festo has also found new ways to
enhance its own business and offers
added support for customers in the
process. Through the company’s
FAST Program, it will ship cylinders,
actuators, valves, air preparation
fittings, tubing and sensors in no
more than 3 days. “In 95 to 99% of
the cases we will have the product on
the shelf in North America,” Sobotta
says. The Mississauga, Ontario site also
includes a manufacturing facility, which
can produce special parts such as a
specific cylinder in a single day. In one
recent case, a customer in nearby Guelph
received a new cylinder in just 4 hours.
Meanwhile, the company’s new products
continue to earn accolades such as red
dot product design awards. This summer’s
winners included an EGC-HD heavy-duty
electric axis that can be used in handling and
transportation. The rack and pinion design
of the DFPB quarter-turn actuator can be
used for opening and closing pipelines
or large process valves. And the VHEM
manually actuated valves – complete with a
large selection of toggle levers, push buttons,
hand levers and selector switches — can be
used everywhere from mechanical sequence
control to the sensitive inspection of
work pieces.
While the company can develop an
entire automated solution, its individual
parts can also be incorporated along
with existing equipment such as
Allen-Bradley or Siemens PLCs. No
programming changes are required.
It continues to develop new systems
for the future.
Festo Marketing Manager Natasha
Gosine refers to one example in the
form of a pneumatic actuator that uses
a reinforced elastomer tube
which
simulates human muscle. “Nature has
taken so many millions of years to
evolve, let’s learn from that,” she says,
referring to the related research. Without
moving parts, the air muscle could last
forever, eventually replacing traditional
actuators and electrical parts alike.
With potential benefits like that, the
future may be closer than you think.
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Prince Edward Island
Ontario
British Columbia
1830 Riverside Drive
220 Adam Street, Units 10&11
Timmins, ON
Belleville, ON
Tel: (705) 264-2337
Tél: (613) 969-0402
901 Great Street
Prince George, BC
Tel: (250) 562-1334
1 Moyal Court
Concord, ON
Tel: (905) 879-2009
19269 - 96th Avenue
Surrey, BC
Tel: (604) 513-0351
40 McColloch Street, Suite 1
Espanola, ON
Tel: (705) 869-5260
Northwest Territories
355 Elmira Road, Unit #128
Guelph, ON
Tel: (519) 821-3100
349 Old Airport Road, Unit 102
Yellowknife, NT
33 Brunelle Road North
Tel: (867) 920-4175
Kapuskasing, ON
Tel: (705) 335-6018
Alberta
359 Tartan Road
London, ON
5946 - 86th Avenue SE
Tel: (519) 457-0050
Calgary, AB
Tel: (403) 259-3588
Kinecor-Intek
2250 Argentia Road
6046 - 87th Street
Mississauga, ON
Edmonton, AB
905-890-5757
Tel: (780) 463-5500
1403 - 5th Street
Nisku, AB
Tel: (780) 955-2155
1060 Belfast Road
Ottawa, ON
Tel: (613) 744-1161
Saskatchewan
171 Kendall Street, Unit 2
Sarnia, ON
Tel: (519) 332-0005
106 Leonard Street North
Regina, SK
Tel: (306) 569-8878
3028 Millar Avenue
Saskatoon, SK
Tel: (306) 934-0700
Manitoba
506 Main Street South
Flin Flon, MB
Tel: (306) 688-3586
1735 Sargent Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Tel: (204) 786-4401
486 Arvin Avenue
Stoney Creek, ON
Tel: (905) 664-7880
1340 Kelly Lake Road
Sudbury, ON
Tel: (705) 675-1185
1223 Amber Drive
Thunder Bay, ON
Tel: (807) 344-2424
Kinecor-Baytec Fluid Power
1227 Amber Drive
Thunder Bay, ON
Tel: (807) 346-4491
4080 North Service Road
Unit 5
Windsor, ON
Tel: (519) 948-7487
200 rue de la Carrière Unit 3
Temiscaming, QC
Tel: (819) 627-1721
Quebec
87 - 10e Rue Sud
Thetford Mines, QC
Tel: (418) 338-3566
2200 - 52nd Avenue
Lachine, QC
H8T 2Y3
Tel: 514-636-3333 (General)
Tel: 514-636-7290 (Hydraulics)
Tel: 514-636-7366 (Bearings)
8022 Jarry Est
Anjou, QC
Tel: (514) 351-8880
1250 rue Bersimis
Chicoutimi, QC
Tel: (418) 690-1447
670 boulevard Lemire
Drummondville, QC
Tel: (819) 477-9111
836 boulevard Industriel # 1
Granby, QC
Tel: (450) 378-9888
918 rue Bergar
Laval, QC
Tel: (450) 668-1000
784 Guimond
Longueuil, QC
Tel: (450) 646-4939
160 - 7e Rue
Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Tel: (819) 797-1743
11000 Marie-Victorin
Tracy, QC
Tel: (450) 742-0115
3310 rue Bellefeuille
Trois-Rivières, QC
Tel: (819) 693-1800
1800 boulevard Jean-Jacques
Cossette
Val D'or, QC
Tel: (819) 874-7414
3 MacAleer Drive
Charlottetown, PE
Tel: (902) 892-6203
Newfoundland
4 Main Street
Corner Brook, NL
Tel: (709) 634-3177
1164 Topsail Road
Mt.Pearl, NL
Tel: (709) 364-7959
4 Second Avenue
Wabush, NL
Tel: (709) 282-5256
Peacock
5946 86th Avenue S.E.
Calgary, AB
Tel: (403) 250-7000
100 Wright Avenue, Suite 7
Dartmouth, NS
526 chemin Larocque, Suite 106 Tel: (902) 468-5599
Valleyfield, QC
Tel: (450) 371-7373
4737 - 97th Street
Edmonton, AB
Tel: (780) 438-2322
New Brunswick
2030 St. Peter Avenue
Bathurst, NB
Tel: (506) 548-4571
9405 109th Street
Ft. St. John, BC
Tel: (250) 785-6627
50 MacNaughton Avenue
Moncton, NB
Tel: (506) 389-1500
7475 Boul. Newman, Suite 510
LaSalle, QC
Tel: (514) 366-5757
790A Chemin Canada
Edmundston, NB
Tel: (506) 735-8981
2250 Argentia Road
Mississauga, ON
Tel: (905) 813-8310
Nova Scotia
171 Kendall Street, Unit 2
Sarnia, ON
Tel: (519) 337-7591
2785 boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel
Québec, QC
Tel: (418) 687-0204
100 Wright Avenue, Suite 7
Dartmouth, NS
Tel: (902) 468-4455
396 - 2e Rue Est
Rimouski, QC
Tel: (418) 722-5164
100 MacGregor avenue, Unit 5
Stellarton, NS
Tel: (902) 752-8307
318 boulevard Laure
Sept-Iles, QC
Tel: (418) 962-9718
15 Paint Street, Unit 6
Port Hawkesbury, NS
Tel: (902) 625-2991
19269 - 96th Avenue
Surrey, BC
Tel: (604) 552-3785
Fluid Conditioning Inc.
PO Box 338
East Aurora, NY
Tel: (716) 655-0330
KINECOR
160 Hayes Road
Thompson, MB
Tel: (204) 677-2318
48 White Oak Drive East
Sault Ste-Marie, ON
Tel: (705) 949-2550
391 rue Belvedere Sud
Sherbrooke, QC
Tel: (819) 565-9933
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Kinecor in Canada
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