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SYMATEX SYSTEMS HITS THE SHORES OF THE UNITED STATES:

The innovative line of waste removal systems produced by Symatex engineering (Denmark) is changing the way American mattress fabricators are thinking about scrap and airborne debris in their factories.

The nature of bedding, and its associated fibrous components and processes, involves a considerable degree of scrap generation, and airborne particulates. The problems associated with these by-products of manufacturing can arise in any one of several forms.

First, plants may hire one, two, or sometimes three extra people to walk around the plant, moving cut off scrap piles from different areas, back to a central bailer, or dumpster. This increases payroll budgets proportionately. Most plants install millions of dollars worth of cutting edge technology to automate and modernize their manufacturing, but continue to purchase corn brooms and hire additional labor to move cut off waste from one area to another.

Secondly, these piles of cut off scrap create dangerous trip hazards. Slips, trips, and falls statistically account for more workplace injuries annually than any other accident category, in the United States.

Which leads us to our next cause-and-effect relationship. However dangerous the dust and fibers are outside the body and surrounding equipment, its ability to silently destroy internally is more dangerous, and farther reaching.

Because of their microscopic size, these fibers work their way into crevasses and crannies of nearby equipment. Often times, the fibers are electro-statically charged, and build up on each other, like a balloon rubbed on someone’s hair. Moving parts will actually break against the compacted particles, Long before the mechanical failure however, the lumps of fibers have pressed back past and compromised numerous gaskets, filters, and seals, and contaminated the once protected oil reservoirs and electrical circuitry, wreaking abrasive havoc on any part they come into contact with. Play develops, vibration increases, and machinery systematically begins failing.

Physiologically, the airborne particles- often not even visible to the naked eye-become ingested in the airways of factory workers.

Symatex factory waste systems have been saving customers hundreds of thousands of dollars in saved labor, reduced material handling, increased production cycle times, increased quilter run time, reduced maintenance, energy savings, elimination of workmen's compensation insurance, extended machine life, and more.

For more information, visit our FACTORY WASTE SYSTEMS link in the MATTRESS product page!

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