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| We’ve gone underground! | 21-02-06 |
Not all ducting installations happen above ground!
Even Eximo has to go underground once in awhile, and this is especially the case when dealing with the mining industry and the burgeoning tunnelling industry in Australia.
Our MobyDuct is the product for these situations. It is an antistatic, flame retardant, ventilation ducting which was a popular choice in Sydney's renowned Cross City Tunnel project.
It's a pity with this project that most of the focus was on events above ground, what with road closures and lane changes that triggered the scorn of the public.
But below the ground, hundreds of metres of MobyDuct was used to ensure uninterrupted ventilation to the many workers who turned this major Australian engineering feat from dream to reality.
MobyDuct is a reinforced PVC ducting with internal spring steel and helix and PVC wear strip, is durable and widely applicable. For space and time efficiency it was a ‘layflat’ version of the product used in the Cross City Tunnel.
It also works perfectly well with our Speedlock ‘quick lock’ clamps, so if any part of it is damaged by machierny or other equipment during works any problem is quickly averted.
Unlike a lot of products on the market, which often aren’t specifically designed for the very heavy industries, MobyDuct has the exact properties required by heavy industries such as mining and tunnelling which rely upon high-performance for results and upkeep of extreme safety measures.
This product is not just antistatic and flame retardant; it has a wide temperature resistance ranging from 0°C right up to 50°C.
Engineers and project managers on mines and major tunnelling projects need to be reassured that workers in underground conditions can be provided with uninterrupted ventilation, which puts the onus onto our product to perform without failure.
We carry stocks of MobyDuct to also ensure fast availability as underground projects cannot afford waiting times for any aspect of their operation.
Any delays lead not only to profit losses; it would basically stall an entire operation as there is no way workers would be expected to work in subterranean areas without proper ventilation systems in place.
MobyDuct is available in diameters ranging from 600mm to 1200mm.The product is available with suspension strip, hooks and wires, and is also supplied with cuff couplings or end rings.
All items in the MobyDuct range are available in 5m lengths and 10m lengths.
Although the large proportion of requests are made for MobyDuct to be supplied in white colour, other colours are available to order.
The antistatic, lightweight, flame retardant and rot resistant properties of the product ensure it performs to its maximum capacity over an extremely long lifespan.