Spotlight on Quirepace: Supplier and manufacturer of innovative products to industry

Quirepace is an SME manufacturer and supplier specialising in supplying niche equipment to primarily industrial and healthcare customers.

Portable Industrial Vacuum Cleaners

Under the BVC – British Vacuum Cleaners –brand, Quirepace specialise in manufacturing Industrial Vacuum Cleaners for industry. The BVC brand is best known for the heavy-duty UK manufactured units that deliver the best of traditional, solid, British manufacturing and engineering.

In the industrial workplace, hazards from dusts and spilled product fall into two distinct categories; the first is dusts that are hazardous to health. This category includes obvious products like asbestos and silica dust, but any dust that can be breathed in by the operator or other personnel in the workplace is likely to be hazardous to health to a degree. Industrial Vacuum Cleaners with M-Class and H-Class filtration ensure hazardous dusts are appropriately handled when being recovered.

The second category is dusts that are hazardous in the environment. The obvious category is dusts that can potentially cause an explosive atmosphere, particularly organic products like sugar and flour. Some products fall in to both categories such as wood dusts, which are both hazardous to health and potentially explosive. ATEX rated Industrial Vacuum Cleaners must be specified for use in ATEX zones.

Exhausters and Blowers

At the heart of most of the BVC range of Industrial Vacuum Cleaners is a BVC multi-stage turbine manufactured here in the UK at Fareham. Quirepace also supply a range of side-channel exhausters and blowers manufactured in Italy by Esam.

Together, the UK manufactured BVC multistage units plus the Esam side channel machines offer a range of units to satisfy every potential requirement for the supply of both positive and negative pressure air to industrial manufacturers and processors.

The choice of which type is more appropriate for the application depends to some extent whether it is more important to maintain either a consistent pressure, or a consistent air flow as demand changes; a side channel will tend to vary the pressure against any resistance to maintain a constant flow, whereas a BVC multistage unit will tend to vary the flow to maintain a constant pressure. Quirepace’s expert sales team can guide the user towards the most appropriate solution.

Central Vacuum Cleaning Systems

BVC Multistage vacuum pumps are ideal for smaller centralised vacuum cleaning installations. Typically these will have 2-3 simultaneous operators and a fixed pipework network distributed around the facility to serve the various use locations.

Quirepace design and build central vacuum cleaning systems up to around 30kW, with configurations for hazardous dusts and ATEX environments. A wide range of hoses and tools is available to suit all requirements.

Pneumatic Tube Systems

Pneumatic tube systems are the best solution for moving small payloads up to around 3kg quickly between multiple locations within a facility. In industry, the principal use for Quirepace pneumatic tube systems is to transport samples for

QC testing from the production floor to the on-site laboratory or testing location.

A range of different systems is offered to meet all possible requirements, from the simplest pointto-point ‘Diana’ system, to complex computercontrolled networks. Tube sizes range from 60mm to 200mm, with 75, 110, and 160mm diameters being the most common sizes.

Using a pneumatic tube system for rapid transportation of small payloads, is not only efficient, it also enhances health and safety by removing the requirement for people to walk samples through production areas.

Garment and PPE Dispensing and Tracking Equipment

Utilising a similar RFID tracking system to that used in Pneumatic Tube Systems and with other technological synergies as industrial electromechanical equipment, this new range of equipment in the Quirepace portfolio is designed to dispense, track and recover garments, items of PPE and indeed, anything else to which an RFID tag can be attached.

The system consists of dispensers, retrieval units and a robust software system that tracks every item as it is dispensed to individual users allowing managers to know at any time how many garments or items of PPE are in circulation, who has them, how long they have had them and when they have been returned.

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