Our conveyor belts are used daily in hundreds of different ways, we have tried to list some of these applications below. No matter what you need to move, we believe the Miniveyor is the belt for you. There are many more where Miniveyors have been used on a one-off basis such as moving a quarter of a million Cricket balls, which we have not quoted. If you know of any others, please let us know.

ARCHAEOLOGY 

Moving many tons of material without heavy machinery on site, which could damage precious artefacts. Many used in Japan. Recently used at Chester Amphitheatre, UK and Chaco Culture National Park, New Mexico.

ARSON / CRIME INVESTIGATION 

Removal of volumes of debris after a fire or crime in a controlled manner. Miniveyor gives the inspecting officers opportunity to methodically sift material as it passes.

BAGGING PLANTS

Miniveyors are used in bagging plants, such as bark chipping machines, especially where they are mobile because they are lightweight.

BACKFILLING

Having built a retaining wall, it is important to backfill with a suitable material to allow drainage. The reason the retaining wall is put in is usually to hold up a steep bank, thus access from below is normally impossible and one cannot risk heavy machinery on the unsupported upper slope. Often the site dictates that the only form of mechanical means is via Miniveyor.

BASEMENTS 

Just lowering the floor of a basement by a few centimetres means many tons of material has to be lifted up and out of the area.

BLOCK SHIFTING

A building company gutted a relatively modern office block in a town centre location. As part of the refurbishment they needed to move 2,000 concrete blocks to each floor for the new walls. By running Miniveyor on their backs this was done with ease.

BOX SHIFTING

Packaging factories often have peak demands (such as the build up for Christmas) where a permanent conveyor line cannot be justified (or indeed needed for the rest of the year). Miniveyors can be set up to provide the temporary situation each year, e.g. The Post Office, Novelty distributors.

BRIDGE CLEANING

Repainting bridges requires shot blasting the old paint and dirt off first by specialist companies. Environmental factors require that the shot is collected and recycled. Miniveyors are set up, hanging under bridges, collecting the shot / beads for recycling.

CANALS / RIVERBANKS 

Natural action of moving water against banks causes erosion. Access to problem areas is often difficult especially for heavy machinery; compounded by the fact the bank is frequently unstable in the first place.
Miniveyor have been used to deliver appropriate materials to renovate banks, both along the bank from a suitable loading position, and from canal barges back onto the bank.

CHURCH BUILDINGS / GRAVEYARDS

If any refurbishment, maintenance or building work needs to be carried out in a graveyard or church building, access for heavy equipment is usually very restricted. At Hereford Cathedral a vast hole had to be dug in front of the building to accommodate the Mappe Mundi. As it was consecrated ground the site was covered and excavated material was removed by Miniveyor.(e.g. see Danish Churches). In London Miniveyor was used on a mass exhumation of a graveyard prior to redevelopment.

CONCRETE

Miniveyor (especially 3M40C) comes in very useful when such a dense material needs to be delivered up/down steps, through a window or doorway where vehicular access is difficult. Field tests have shown that steadily loaded Miniveyors will out perform a small dumper truck in a restricted access site (and you do not have to pay for a driver!).

CULVERT CLEANING

Often culverts, designed to take rainwater, become silted up. It is important to maintain, and to minimise, potential flood hazards. Miniveyor with its unique electrical system has been used effectively to remove tons of silt from culverts.

DEMOLITION

Miniveyor are frequently used to clear debris from site prerefurbishment. They are just as effective at removal as delivery (Grand Hotel - Stockholm).

POTTERIES

Craft potteries, manufacturing large clay urns, required tons of clay to be lifted initially into large mixing vats to produce a well mixed slurry. Further on in the process mixed slabs of clay needed to be moved efficiently around the factory. Miniveyor has successfully been doing this for the past four years.

FORESTRY

The US Forestry department is using Miniveyor for forestry management; removing dead tress from within the forest in a National Park to reduce fire risk.

FOUNDRY SAND 

Once the mould has been used, it is broken down and the sand is recycled. Miniveyor is very effective in moving the sand to the start point in this restricted environment.

HEIGHT RESTRICTION JOBS

Many cellar/basement jobs come into this category (covered earlier). However there are many more such as underpinning motorway bridges. Civil engineers needed to undermine the road in order to reinforce it, clearly there was not room for conventional machinery, though many tons were required to be moved. Again Miniveyor came into its own.

HOUSE & SCHOOL EXTENSIONS

Miniveyor has been used on many occasions to remove soil from the rear of the original building in order to create a level platform for the extension. Obviously applications are most common where houses are terraced or semi-detached. (e.g. School in Reigate - Case Study).

KILNS

When relining kilns which are long and narrow, Miniveyor has been used to remove old bricks and to deliver their replacements.

LANDSCAPING

Due to the small footprint, landscaping contractors can use Miniveyor to move large amounts of soil without damaging existing groundwork’s and avoid expensive replanting. In the Bay of Naples, the island of Ischia uses Miniveyor to remove imported sand from their black volcanic beaches at the end of each summer season.

MINING and QUARRIES

Miniveyor’s portability has proved extremely helpful for creating inputs onto the main conveyor line only in mines where light metals and nonfireproof motors are allowed. They have also been used to clear up underneath the main conveyor line (likewise QUARRIES). Miniveyor is also used behind Face Cutting machines to carry away spoil in coal mines. Options include flame retardant
belts to ISO340 and hydraulic motors.

NOISE

Miniveyor’s are very silent in operation and can be used at night or in hospital areas, hotels, libraries, residential homes etc.

PADDLE MIXERS

Whilst paddle mixers provide excellent plaster/cement mixes, they are notoriously difficult to load. Miniveyor has been successfully used to overcome this shortcoming of the paddle mixer. One user has been operating an original Miniveyor for the past four years and would not be without it.

PLANT MAINTENANCE

A large crushing plant operated by a local authority requires new teeth on a regular basis. They have to be fitted approximately 5 metres from ground level each weighing 20 KGs. The teeth are taken up by two 3M40C’s until the mechanic lifts the teeth off and bolt them into position.

POST DISASTER DEBRIS REMOVAL

Miniveyor is ideal for removing debris where the situation is weight sensitive, i.e. it would be possible to put Miniveyor down whilst minimising the risk of crushing people who might be trapped underneath. Tons of rubble could be quickly removed, even hand loading material onto the belts. (Example -Israeli Military)

RAILWAYS - UNDERGROUND

Miniveyors are regularly used by the Underground maintenance crews when they need to move much material quickly. London Underground has specially commissioned wide conveyors to lift sleepers and buckets of track ballast into their wagons.

RAILWAY EMBANKMENTS

Again access on railway embankments is especially restricted, particularly in urban areas. When maintenance work is required, often the largest part of the project is moving the materials to and from site. 3M40C are often used to overcome these steeply sloped situations.

REFINERY MAINTENANCE

1. as part of the rigorous standards in the Oil industry, large storage tanks have to be lifted and the sand on which they sit has to be replaced. It is difficult to raise these heavy tanks far from the ground and so machine access is virtually impossible. However Miniveyor has been ideal to move volumes of sand.
2. with much pipework running overground and the risk of damaging that underground, heavy machinery is very limited on a refinery site. Miniveyor has been used regularly to transport building materials on/off site in these areas.
3. Usually the Miniveyor electrical system is deemed safe for the refinery environment. Pneumatic versions are available for class 1 gas areas.

REFURBISHMENT / REMODELLING

By definition refurbishment implies that one is dealing with a standing building which leads to restricted access. Miniveyor is most often used for this application taking/bringing materials on/off site in the most efficient manner.

ROOFTOP

Miniveyor is ideal for rooftop landscaping where weight is restricted. SEWERS - Miniveyor can be used when sewers become silted up in the same way as CULVERTS. The Miniveyor system is usually deemed safe to operate in the sewer environment.

SKIP FILLING

Much builders’ rubble ends up in a skip. Loading by Miniveyor can save up to four times the labour bill and overcomes safety aspects of taking heavy loads up steep inclines such as the ramp onto the skip.

SWIMMING POOLS / PONDS

Increasingly swimming pools are being built in smaller spaces. Miniveyor has been involved in a number of jobs where the digger has had to be installed by crane then Miniveyor has removed the bulk of material by the side of the house

TRENCHING

Miniveyor can be invaluable when digging trenches in bad access positions especially when working with ditch digging machines. It might be easy to get the material out but it needs to be got away rather than fall back into the trench. Equally useful for backfilling in a similar situation.

TUNNEL WORK

(See Culverts and Underground Railway). Again tunnel is by definition restricted access. This can be height and/or width restriction. Miniveyor has been used on several tunnel maintenance
and new build projects. Applications include removing spoil for subsidiary tunnels onto the main conveyor (several 100 metres long) when building new tunnels, to delivering materials into position for tunnel maintenance.

UNDERPINNING

As above Miniveyor is often used in underpinning jobs which has involved removing several tons of material that has given rise to subsidence/potential subsidence, and replacing with suitable building materials to underpin the building. Again restricted access is a common problem.

UTILITIES / WATER COMPANIES & FILTRATION PLANTS

Miniveyors have regularly been used to remove and then replace filter material both in open filter beds and inside water filter plants.