McDermid Canning needed to create an additional production facility for the manufacture of a new range of automotive chemical products, which required a major new chemical mixing facility and quality testing laboratory on their existing site.
The main mezzanine level at 4.2 metres high accommodates control equipment, chemical inflow into 11 large mixing tanks and a laboratory and office complex.
An upper walkway at 6.9 metres high extends the entire length of the platform, providing access to all high level services as well as suspended services support and control equipment mounting.
The chemical tanks are ground-floor standing but pass through the durbar steel deck surface at plant platform level, where a "no loss" standard is rigidly maintained by the use of fully welded deck plates and perimeter toeboards, with a special resin coating to the deck to create a fully "tanked" surface. A special sump was created directly beneath the upper walkway as an added safeguard to catch any spillages when servicing pipes, valves and hoses etc.
A wide range of load capacities were required across the various floor areas and levels, from lightweight office, to large flow pipes, to 1200 kgs pallets of raw materials which are used in the mixing tanks.
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