Giving New Meaning To Silo Cleaning

One of the primary industries where sonic horns bring particular advantage is that of the cement industry. In a large cement factory there can be many process and storage problems and sonic horns can really help by:

1. preventing particulate build-up (in id fans and electrostatic precipitators)
2. by improving material flow (eg. in cement silos and hoppers)

See our cement silo cleaning page for more information.

Photograph: our most powerful sonic horn (PAS-60) installed on a 30,000 ton capacity cement silo.

Today, however, I came across a 'first' ... a cement factory with no less than 30 cement silos where our sonic horns could not be installed! The reason? It has been converted into an architect's office!

Architect Ricardo Bofill discovered the 3,1000 m2 cement factory in Barcelona back in 1973 and spent 2 years redeveloping it into his head office/home. Surrounded by beautiful gardens it has to be one of the most unusual office/homes I've ever seen.

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