Rotadyne and AllightSykes Partner to Deliver Robust Plastics to

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Rotadyne and AllightSykes Partner
to Deliver Robust Plastics to Mining
When operating in hostile
environments, equipment
needs to be sturdy and
fault proof, else lives are
at stake. For AllightSykes,
a specialist provider of
equipment for the mining
industry, the environments
its products operate within
need to be robust indeed.
Rotadyne has been a preferred provider of
equipment to AllightSykes for some time, having
previously demonstrated an expertise in custom
rotomolding jobs for mining applications. The
team had in the past produced a trailer-mounted
pump set with rotomolded panels for AllightSykes,
which had won an award for its expert design.
Because of this the company was a natural choice
when AllightSykes went looking for a new acoustic
canopy for a pump and engine combination.
“What we were doing originally was getting our
canopies pressed from metals with a glass fibre insert
that could cut out the noise,” AllightSkyes Industrial
Designer, Duncan MacDonald said. “When we
approached Rotadyne, Sebastian and the team told
us that they had a new product that could deliver a
superior result.”
Because the primary goal of the canopy is to reduce
noise, the first stage was to test the plastic (integral
...They've been in the game longer
and prepared to go the distance...
polyethylene) for its ability to minimise sound. This
was done at the National Acoustic Laboratories in
NSW, and was successful in demonstrating that
the plastics are capable of dampening noise to a
required level. Now the product is now being tested
for airflow, and MacDonald said all the results have
been very positive indeed.
The rotomolded solution is delivering three critical
benefits to AllightSykes:
•It provides AllightSykes with a greater range
of customisation options, which allows the
engineers to better tailor solutions for customers.
In mining, where challenges can vary from one
site to the next, this was a critical advantage over
the existing solution.
•The total price of the solution is less than the
cost of the incumbent solution.
•The Rotadyne solution is modular, which will
help the AllightSkyes team to scale it in the future.
“In the future we want the panels from this design
to be used in bigger, larger products,” MacDonald
said. “There’s a universality to these panels, which has
excited everyone here.”
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over the
existing solution...
MacDonald said the Rotadyne team’s ability to
engage proactively and offer expert advice has been
a critical factor in the ongoing positive partnership
between the two companies.
“They’ve been in the game longer and prepared to go
the distance,” MacDonald said. “The Rotadyne team
has been more than willing to come in whenever we
had any questions, and that’s not a service that you get
from too many organisations.”