The highest level of safety and efficiency in bulk material level
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The highest level of safety and efficiency in bulk material level siemens.com/processinstrumentation What safety precautions do you take each day? Using smoke detectors, fastening seat belts while in the car, wearing safety glasses during home improvements. All of these are crucial to ensuring your safety at home and on the road. Now, imagine being responsible for the safety of workers producing one million tons of gritstone and asphalt each year. What safety measures would you take? Lafarge Tarmac in Bayston Hill, UK, ensures the health and well-being of its employees while keeping production efficiencies high. Throughout the plant’s operations, Siemens process instrumentation gives Lafarge Tarmac the information it needs to operate safely and efficiently. Driving the country’s construction As the UK’s leading sustainable building materials group, Lafarge Tarmac produces a range of products for the construction industry including ready-mixed concrete, asphalt, cement, and lime. From its quarries across the UK, Lafarge Tarmac extracts sand, hard rock, and gravel to be used in infrastructure projects like roads, schools, hospitals, homes, and offices. As well, these products play a part in industries such as steel, pharmaceutical, food, clean water, and sewage treatment.

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SITRANS RD200 remote display, connected to this custom-built panel, shows level percentages in the fibre pellet storage vessel. For the past century, the Bayston Hill site near Shrewsbury has produced high-quality materials used locally and across the country on major road projects. The company has shipped this location’s particular gritstone even further abroad to Bahrain for its Formula 1 racetrack surfacing and construction project. The quality of stone found at Bayston Hill is ideal for this application as it provides excellent traction and has a long lifespan. Safely adding additives...

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The 78 GHz SITRANS LR560 radar transmitter (right) provides continuous level readings of fibre, while SITRANS CLS300 (left) gives highlevel alarming. Automation throughout production Elsewhere in the Lafarge Tarmac facility, the SIMATIC S7 PLC and SCADA control system operates the plant’s Primary and Tertiary Crushers, and level process instrumentation plays an important role in keeping operations running smoothly. A few examples: • SITRANS LR300 radar device measuring levels of hot bitumen reaching temperatures of 170 °C (338 °F) • SITRANS LC300 capacitance level transmitter tracks levels...

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