AIR ENVIROTECH, specialists in air pollution, dust control and pneumatic product handling for the mining, metallurgical processing and general industrial sectors, announced today that it has commenced operation, providing a comprehensive range of air environmental and pneumatic conveying services and state-of-the-art systems and technologies.

AIR ENVIROTECH has been established by well-known specialists in the industry, who, to date, comprised the TAKRAF South Africa air environmental and pneumatics team.  Following an agreement with TAKRAF South Africa, they will now provide their services as an independent entity.

AIR ENVIROTECH inherits expertise in air environmental control and pneumatic conveying that has been built up over a track record that dates back nearly 50 years servicing the Southern African industry, first as part of the Bateman Group and later as part of TAKRAF South Africa. The extensive air environmental reference list includes the design and supply of more than 3,000 dust control systems for a vast variety of applications, with the client list featuring all the major mining companies in South Africa and further afield, including Botswana and Namibia. In addition, leading industrial companies such as paper manufacturers, cement companies and the national power utility have been repeat clients.

AIR ENVIROTECH offers the full range of services and products to provide the best and most cost-effective solution to any dust-control, air-cleaning or product-recovery problem, large or small. The services range from system design, through to manufacture, turnkey installations and after-sales service, with expertise provided over a full range of dust and air pollution control technologies. These include electrostatic precipitators, baghouses and bagfilters, cyclones, dry / wet scrubbers, dust suppression systems and dry and semi-dry flue-gas desulphurisation systems.

The wide range of pneumatic conveying systems available from AIR ENVIROTECH includes systems for lean, medium and dense phase conveying regimes, suitable for          applications across the industrial sector. Hundreds of different particulate materials have been successfully conveyed through the technologies, with, for example, systems having been applied for the country’s leading cement producers. The Pneumodrier, also marketed by Air Envirotech, combines pneumatic conveying with product drying. The total product containment offered by pneumatic conveying systems, eliminates the spillage, dust and hygiene problems of exposed product handling.

“TAKRAF and, previously, BATEMAN are ‘household’ names in the Southern African industry and we, as AIR ENVIROTECH, are proud to be able to continue building on this rich heritage,” commented AIR ENVIROTECH’s Jimmy Tomlin. “With the increasing legislative stringency and public pressure to reduce the environmental and health and safety impact of industrial operations, we believe that AIR ENVIROTECH is well positioned to support industry ‘work for cleaner air’.”