Posted on Saturday, June 17, 2023
Coles Parkinson Large Capacity ASC Sweeper
The Client Coles Distribution Centre has just opened their second large Distribution facility at Parkinson, in Qld. The Challenge The challenge was to find a sweeper that had the capacity to sweep many acres of open concreted areas. After careful consideration, the company made the choice to invest in a high quality sweeper. The Result. Coles ordered an ASC Eureka M8 Diesel powered air conditioned cabin machine, for this site. ASC’s Scott Campbell was there to commission the machine.
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Posted on Friday, June 16, 2023
Coles Distribution Centre Redbank QLD
The Client Coles has announced the opening of its first automated distribution centres in Redbank, QLD. The Challenge Coles procurement team went to the market, looking a sweeper that could maintain many acres of external hardstand areas. The selection process included many stakeholders of Coles. The Result Coles ordered the ASC Eureka M8 Street Sweeper for the Redbank Site. ASC’s Scott Campbell and Nathaniel Prasad were on hand to commission the new machine to site.
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Posted on Monday, May 1, 2023
GrainCorp Port Kembla (Wollongong)
The Client Grain Corp is an Australian agribusiness and processing company. They store and handle agricultural commodities and manage a wide range of grains and pulses. The Challenge Grain Corp were looking to invest in an industrial grade sweeper, that offered a dust free sweeping solution. They were looking to sweep many materials on the perimeter of their site, ranging from thick, heavy grain, to the finest of powdery dust. The company needed to abide by strict environmental restrictions with airborne dust, as well as debris contaminating the south pacific ocean. The Result Graincorp liaised with ASC’s Scott Campbell, who
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Posted on Monday, May 30, 2022
Bayton Group Site Clean Challenges Solved
Client Introduction Bayton Group provide cleaning services to manufacturing and mechanical workshops, food processing, warehousing plants, along with mining and drilling operations. Baytons have also been awarded the contract to maintain the large areas of Barangaroo, in central Sydney, which surround the Casino up to Millers Point. The Challenge Baytons faced many new challenges cleaning this site, as this area had many obstacles. Copious pedestrians walking the paths each day was the first challenge, followed by a requirement that the machine they used had to be whisper quiet. The site encompassed many forms of debris, including broken glass, paper cups,
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Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2020
ASC Delivers to Nyrstar Hobart
Client Introduction Nyrstar Hobart operates a zinc smelter based in Hobart, Tasmania. They contribute a lot to the economy of Tasmania by employing more than 600 people. Their plant has been operating for more than 100 years, and it occupies a large land in the Heart of beautiful Hobart. The Problem Nyrstarwent to the market to find a solution to their dust emission issue on their roadways and surrounding plant areas. They enquired many global suppliers regarding their problem. ASC was also asked to visit their site and suggest an appropriate solution with the best possible dust suppression technology after
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Posted on Friday, September 25, 2020
ASC Delivers Again to Mt Isa Mines Qld ASC Dulevo 6000
Mount Isa Mines is one of Queensland’s largest employers. Based in Outback North Queensland, the company extracts copper, lead, zinc and silver from the Mount Isa mine. They recently invested in another Dulevo 6000 sweeper to add to their fleet of ASC machines Road Sweeping Machines. They have been using the ASC machines are used to sweep the roads for up to 16 hours per day, 6 days per week. The mine runs 24 hours per day. The machines operate in daylight hours over two shifts per day. Dust was a major issue on this site, and hence the ASC
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Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2020
Expressway Spares Wauchope NSW invest with ASC Again
Expressway Spares have been in the earthmoving and mining industry spare parts business for over five decades. Their head office in Wauchope (NSW) is centrally located between Sydney and Brisbane. The facility incorporates over 20,000 square metres of covered storage and workspace over the 9-hectare footprint. The company is a big employer in the area employing more than 190 people in this facility alone. The Challenge: The company has a very large complex to maintain. The site encompasses several workshops, paint sheds, welding and fabrication shops, wash bays, machine shops and a large sandblast shed. Maintaining and refurbishing large machinery
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Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2020
Newington College (Sydney) and ASC
Newington College is a multi-campus facility with an independent Uniting Church, single-sex and co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school for boys. It is located in Stanmore, an inner-western suburb of Sydney. The college had developed a lifelong relationship with ASC over the last 13 years as ASC had proved to be the best solution provider when it came to their outdoor cleaning equipment needs. The Challenge Newington College has many campuses with various roadways plenty of school grounds spreading across acres. The college resembles a modern university. Their campuses include multiple carparks, playgrounds, synthetic grass areas,
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Posted on Friday, December 6, 2019
TLAP Chooses ASC 125 Footpath Sweeper to Keep the City Cleaner
TLAP has the huge responsibility of not only keeping the city clean but also overseeing the community lead exposure reduction strategy. The Challenge TLAP researched the market recently in order to find a suitable solution for achieving the aim of keeping the city clean while reducing the laden lead on the ground. ASC was also approached for demonstrating its machines with the target scope to clean the city’s footpaths and CBD area. The materials that needed to sweep include everything from leaves and rocks to debris, glass, and even paper from the undulated and uneven footpaths of the city. The
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Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019
Mars Forklifts buys a Ex Fleet ASC Sweeper
Mars Forklifts is a specialised forklift supplier of the Sydney warehousing market. Recently, Mario Conti (Managing Director) of Mars Forklifts invested in an ex-fleet ASC sweeper for his extensive hire fleet. Pictured here is Mars Forklifts Matt Di Donato exhibiting the sweeper from ASC.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 28, 2019
No More Manual Cleaning For Lithgow Council’s Footpaths And Roads
Lithgow Council is located on the western ramparts of the Blue Mountains, 140 km west of Sydney. The Challenge Lithgow Council recently investigated their options of mechanizing their CBD and footpath cleaning. They had traditionally used manual labour to clean these areas. They used traditional method of men walking around with petrol blowers and hand brooms. The Solution After researching many sweepers on the market the council decided to invest in a ASC D 850 sweeper. They wanted to make sure that they got a super reliable sweeper. They not only spent time looking at respective drive trains on various
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Posted on Wednesday, August 28, 2019
ASC D5000 Will Keep The Port Of Townsville Neat & Clean
Port of Townsville recently took delivery of a fully reconditioned ASC D5000 street sweeper to help keep their Port clean. The ASC sweeper will predominantly be used to keep the births clean between loading and unloading of ships. The material to be swept will include copper, zinc concentrate, lead bullion and copper cathode which is shipped in from Glencore’s Copper Refinery Ltd (CRL). Recently ASC’s Tony Bilos spent the day on site training operators on how to properly use the sweeper and its (SOP) washdown procedures. This is the now the second ASC street sweeper to be used at the
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Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2019
ASC Power Vac Helped Nicson’s Facility Get Rid Of The Polystyrene Buildup
Nicsons Building Products welcome a ASC Power Vac Machine to their premises Nicson’s Building Products is a family owned business that supplies all components for residential house slabs and commercial projects that have a raft slab design. The group started as Waffle Pod Pty Ltd in 2000 manufacturing waffle pods in a small factory located at Penrith. With Engineers and builders understanding the speed and cost benefits of a waffle pod slab demand grew and Waffle Pod moved to larger premises in St Marys. In 2004 Nicson’s Building Products was established to meet client’s needs of offering a total slab
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Posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Unitised Building Saved 45% Of Cost By Owing A Pre-loved Sweeper Machine With Excellent Performance
UB (Unitised Building) is a global leader in the modular and pre-fabricated building market.. The group manufactures a diverse range of volumetric and prefabricated buildings across Australia and Singapore. Their expansion into Australia has seen them operating in a huge warehousing / manufacturing complex in Melbourne’s outer Western Suburbs of St. Albans. The group had a huge battle with the retention and capture of concrete dust from manufacturing their modules. They consulted ASC’s Ken Pepyat on how best to eliminate their dust issues due to growing concern about OH&S. The company did not have the budget to invest in a
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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Mount Isa Mines Adhere To Strict EPA Rules & Keep Employees Safe With ASC Sweeper
Mount Isa Mines Limited (“MIM”) operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc, and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, as part of the Glencore group. They operate two separate mining and processing streams, copper and zinc, to deliver natural resources that have enduring roles in society. MIM has the largest zinc resource base and the biggest underground network of mines in the world, which provide work for more than 3,200 employees and contractors. Recently Mount Isa Mines invested in another D6000 sweeper. It is used to sweep the huge array of roadways and keep the lead and copper dust
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Posted on Thursday, December 6, 2018
Rio Tinto Bell bay Invested in ASC Sweeper to Keep Their Surrounding Areas Clean & Workers Free From Dust
Bell Bay Aluminum is one of Australia’s largest producers of Aluminum. The Bell Bay site is 45 kilometers from the city of Launceston, Tasmania. The smelter produces around 180,000 tonnes of aluminium each year and operates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Its main metal products are ingot, rolling block and T-bar. Recently they invested in a ASC Dulevo 3000 sweeper to keep their pot rooms and surrounding areas clean and free from dust. The machine is used in sweep very dusty floors and the decision to purchase the machine was based the ASC’s Dulevo 3000’s ability to
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2018
Rio Tinto Weipa (Qld) Invested In ASC Dulevo 3000 Sweeper For Their New $1.9 Billion Dollar Amrun Project
Rio Tinto Weipa (Qld) recently invested in an ASC Dulevo 3000 sweeper for their new $1.9 billion dollar Amrun project. The new sweeper will primarily be used for sweeping their wharf area in order to minimize any bauxite falling into the ocean. Recently we commissioned the new ASC Dulevo 3000 sweeper to their maintenance staff and numerous on-site operators. Bauxite from Weipa is shipped to international customers but the majority of Weipa bauxite is supplied to the Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries, both located in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for Australian aluminium smelting operations and for
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Posted on Thursday, November 15, 2018
Empire Office Furniture Invest In A Ex-Fleet ASC Rider Sweeper Ex-Fleet ASC Sweeper At Empire Office Furniture Warehouse 3
Empire Office Furniture is a dedicated office furniture retail organisation. They have a massive two-level distribution centre based in Brisbane’s Woolloongabba suburb. The company recently purchased an ex-fleet ASC sweeper to keep dust out of their warehouse facility. The dust that accumulates in their warehouse is a mixture of outside pollution as well as the normal forklift & truck tyre dust that is created while moving stock. The opportunity to invest in an ex-fleet ASC sweeper saved the company quite a lot of money compared to investing in a brand new machine. Well done Empire Office Furniture!
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Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Liverpool Plains Shire Chose an ASC Dulevo 850 to Help Make the Townships Cleaner
Liverpool Plains Shire Council has invested in a new ASC Dulevo 850 footpath sweeper. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range in central north-west, New South Wales, the council’s diverse and abundantly resourceful Shire is surrounded by picturesque mountains and expands across the vast and bountiful Liverpool Plains. The population centers of Quirindi and Werris Creek Shire are surrounded by a number of smaller villages and hamlets including Blackville, Caroona, Currabubula, Pine Ridge, Premer, Spring Ridge, Wallabadah, and Willow Tree. These vibrant communities now have a new ASC sweeper to keep their townships clean all year round. Gone
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Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2018
O-I Australia Keeps its EPA Targets in Check With the ASC Dulevo
Glass container manufacturer O-I Australia has taken possession of an ASC Dulevo Street sweeper for their optical sorting plant in South East Queensland. The high-capacity cullet optical sorting plant recovers large volumes of recycled glass for use at the company’s glass container manufacturing plant in Brisbane. O-I Australia’s facility processes a significant volume of furnace-ready cullet. The plant ensures all the glass it recycles has an opportunity to be recovered through a closed-loop process and recycled into new glass containers – not down-cycled or sent to landfill. The new ASC Street Sweeper ensures the plant runs dust-free as a lot
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Posted on Wednesday, April 4, 2018
PWCS Has Been Using the ASC Dulevo 5000 Sweeper for 5 Years
PWCS Port Waratah Coal Services is Australia’s largest coal loading facility based in Newcastle, NSW. PWCS invested in an ASC Dulevo 5000 sweeper 5 years ago. Pictured is PWCS Manager, Mr. Glenn Parsons inspecting his ASC 5000 sweeper while it is being repaired in ASC’s new multimillion purpose-built maintenance facility located in the Sydney suburb of Rouse Hill. The Dulevo 5000 sweeps the entire port, which is known as the Carrington Terminal. The Carrington Terminal procures all its coal from NSW Hunter Valley. The coal in this area is known for its clean qualities. The ASC 5000 was purchased to
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