AKJ Achieves “3-Peat” in Safety! Completes Three Full Years With No Accidents
Posted on | September 29, 2009 | No Comments
AKJ Industries is pleased to announce that once again it had zero reportable accidents and zero lost time accidents companywide in 2007. This was our third consecutive year during which we were able to accomplish this goal. We are proud of all of our employees for their efforts and accomplishments. Our operations are located in 14 states in the steel, refinery, mining and utility industries. These industries can be hazardous areas to work in which makes us particularly cognizant of this accomplishment. When you see any of our employees, please take a moment to congratulate him/her for their safety record since we all appreciate the significance of attaining this goal and recognize the value of working safely for ourselves, our clients, our supply partners and our neighbors.
AKJ Comes Out On Top in Head-to-Head Comparisons of Road Dust Abatement!
Posted on | September 10, 2009 | No Comments
In May of this year, AKJ was given the opportunity to go head-to-head with a competitor to control dust on a haul road at a Kentucky utility. Both companies were assigned a 1 mile strip of road, roughly 40 feet wide. The road was scarified and prepped with fresh gravel prior to treatment. AKJ brought in 2 spray trucks to apply the product. AKJ treated their section of road on 4/20/07 with 7,000 gallons of undiluted RDS-78. A week later, on 4/26/2007, the utility began using the road. The traffic consists of 100 ton trucks going roughly 20 MPH uphill and 45 MPH downhill. Click here to see the pictures taken from behind one of the trucks from the bottom of the haul road all the way to the top. The pictures detail how effective the two treatments were; revealing dust flying up from the first section of road which was treated by a competitor while the second section which was treated by AKJ is perfectly dust free! Contact your local AKJ representative to begin treating your haul roads with the very BEST ……… today! Or e-mail our corporate offices at info@akjindustries.com.
Tags: control dust > dust control > fresh gravel > gravel dust > haul road > road dust > roaddust > utility
Jenike & Johanson independent testing of AKJ’s FreeFlow FCA product line
Posted on | September 10, 2009 | No Comments
The conclusion is that the products containing the FreeFlowTM additive package want to stay on the rail car or coal surface, rather than being wicked into the internal crevices of the coal. Would this feature make a difference in performance or application rates? AKJ Industries contracted Jenike & Johanson, a leading firm in the evaluation of material flow. J&J has been active in evaluating FCA products since the early days of product development for the freeze conditioning market. Samples of the base materials and the base materials with the FreeFlowTM additive package were submitted for “Drop Shatter” testing. J&J direct quote: At the 10.5% moisture content, the control without any FCA was found to be the worst (as expected), in terms of the drop height required for 100% pass through the grates. FreeFlowTM FC-504 at 3 pints/ton performed the best, followed closely by FreeFlowTM FC-504SR at 1.5 pints per ton.
Tags: additive > coal > coal surface > free flow > freeflow > freeze conditioning > jenike & johanson > rail car > railcar > railroads