Innovative and disruptive technology to reclaim bulk products from silos

Over the past 30 years, our company has developed an innovative and disruptive technology to reclaim bulk products from silos.
This unique system allows the extraction of numerous types of bulk commodities: Cereals, biomass, agri-food products, industrials products, stored in metallic or concrete, round or square silos, ships, trucks, railway cars, containers….

It consists of a vibrating floor, composed of independent vibrating modules.
Placed at the bottom of silos, vibrafloors resolve the long-standing problem of silo clean-up.

The technology is widely patented, and VF has the exclusivity on it.

Favourite playgrounds of Vibrafloor are high turnover silos such as in harbours and animal feed plants, biomass in the form of wood chips and wood pellets, and all types of bulk containers.

The idea behind Vibrafloor

The pile's foot is identified as the weak point, even more so when the pile rests on a metallic panel that vibrates. Very little energy, just where needed, and the giant collapses. The pile is destabilized in successive layers, irresistibly, up to the last grain.

Construction

The system consists of an assembly of independent modules, each with its steel plate and a vibrator, laid on a slight incline. The steel plate is kept in place on its module by a polyurethane membrane, and rests on springs so that no vibrating energy is transmitted to the surrounding structure. There is no restrictions to the applicable surface, whatever its shape and dimensions nor to the applied load.

Operation

A vibrating floor works sequentially, starting at the bottom of the residual pile and up. Rows or circles of modules are triggered successively from bottom to top by sensors until complete clearance of the residual material.

Performance

Vibrafloor offers numerous comparative advantages: no maintenance, no personnel inside the silos, negligible power intake, easy to implement, multi-product, extreme flexibility, and perfectly safe. Unmatched performances, one hundred per cent clearance at high speed, including on cohesive products, explain the rapid growth of Vibrafloor, supplier of major bulk operators worldwide.

10 GREAT REASONS to choose our product:

- No personnel in silos.
- Total silo clearance
- Totally safe
- No routine maintenance
- High efficiency on cohesive materials
- High reclaim rate
- Automatic operation
- Low energy consumption
- No vibration transferred to structure
- Inbuilt modular redundancy

You can learn more about this company on our website.