SUGAR GROWING & REFINING
DIAK completed it's first order for a sugar producer in 1978 and has since completed about 120 more. The range is wide and space prevents detailed case studies of any depth. The following main areas of work are where DIAK expertise has been applied:
- Irrigation borehole pumps, spares and maintenance
- Tractor and narrow gauge railway transport
- Design and assembly of subsoil fumigator
- Bagasse handling- supply of chains, sprockets, rolls
- Driers and spares
- Boiler refractory lining
- Boiler tubes, cleaning and steam spares
- Steam turbines- supply of reconditioned power plant
- Massecuite pumps and raw juice pumps
- Laboratory quality control
- Product weighing and bagging
COFFEE INDUSTRY
European Union Coffee Improvement Programme
In a project running to over Euro 2 million, the European Union Coffee Improvement Programme commissioned DIAK to effect the overhaul of 2 major coffee curing factories in one country. The largest elements of the project involved the installation of an electronic colour sorting system for coffee beans, comprising of a battery of 5 machines. These were fed by vibratory feeder shutes, and driven from a refrigerated dried pneumatic main circuit, ending in an automatic weighing, bagging and bag stitching system.
In another factory where wet processing took place, the project included the refurbishment of the boiler system, the steam engine, and the design and supply of the complete conveying system through each stage of the factory.
In both factories, every element of the electrical supply system was overhauled with new switchgear, improved fuse protection, power factor correction and cabling, plus one thousand new fluorescent lampgears. Thirty year old graders and catadors were updated, and integrated with a new 10 ton per hour smout peeler polisher facility.
Delivery was effected from 6 ports worldwide, imported by DIAK into the host country, and delivered 500 miles overland to site and craned into position. There were 400 different products involved and integrated into one project, completed on time and on budget.
European Development Fund
In another region, under an award from the European Development Fund, DIAK was awarded a contract of Euro 250,000 to re-equip a different pair of identical state owned coffee curing factories with every electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and process spare part required to run both factories for a 3 year period up to a privatisation event. The service continues today 10 years later.