Designs Unique, the Johannesburg-based company specialising in data acquisition projects, was recently commissioned to install a laboratory humidifying system at the Lafarge Bamburi Cement plant in Mombasa, Kenya.
Following the development of a sophisticated software package for the PC-based display, monitoring and logging of critical data in laboratories, chiefly for the cement and concrete industries, Designs Unique designed and produced its award-winning DTH-Sense-Aire Temperature and Humidity Meter/Transmitter.
This accurate and reliable instrument, together with the monitoring software, has already been installed at several plants including CSIR Miningtek, Holcim, Lafarge PAD, PPC, the Cement and Concrete Institute in South Africa, Circle Cement in Zimbabwe and Johannesburg Water.
Efficiently ordering up the correct humidification of such laboratories and test facilities forms an integral and critical part of the required processes. Said Bobby Holdcroft of Designs Unique, "The level of professionalism we experienced while at the plant is an example to us all. The staff are a delightful group of people and obviously take great interest in their work, and were an absolute pleasure to work with. At the end of our stay we were invited by the plant manager, Paul Rogers to tour the Haller Park, situated in the plant grounds.
"As a result of limestone quarrying activities, which had been going on since 1954, huge tracts of land had been left bare and scarred. To restore the land, Dr Rene Haller, an agronomist, was invited in 1971 to rehabilitate the quarries. The goal was not only to remove the eyesore, but also to create a more productive ecosystem that would also be a safe haven for the protection of endangered coastal species of plants and animals."
To quote Paul Rogers, "After wandering around the park for a while, one has to stop, take a deep breath and realise that you are in a cement plant". Today, Lafarge Bamburi is one of Kenya's largest manufacturing companies and the largest cement producer in East Africa, producing 1,3 million tons of cement annually.
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