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VIGAN equipment by application, ship unloading and loading

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Site integration

VIGAN can design and adapt its equipment to match exactly existing site configuration. Specific gantries, equipment split and dispatch, tailor-made solutions and attention to details is what allows VIGAN to propose the most performant and cost-effective solution.

In each of the highlighted projects, the customers had important site constrains in term of space but with high demands in terms of machine size.

For the first project, the unloading operation had to be performed along the existing building without any suitable pier to place the machine. VIGAN proposed a custom barge unloader with long boom mounted on the side of the building. The machine room is completely integrated inside the building. The new installation is connected to the existing silo system.

VIGAN 360tph malt barge unloader Germany
360tph malt barge unloader
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On the second project, the customer wanted to minimize the machine footprint and loads the reduce civil work costs as we needed to place the equipment on the Rhine. VIGAN proposed a NIV head to offer all the benefit of the NIV technology integrated on a pontoon for the second one.

VIGAN NIV 250tph oats head unloader Germany
NIV 250tph oats head unloader
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NIV unloader

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Delicate cargoes

Already in the 90’s, VIGAN was selected by our customers to handle delicate cargoes. This project was for cocoa beans unloading and it was mandatory to preserve the product in the unloading process.

Thanks to its unloading pneumatic solutions, VIGAN has a lot of experience of handling delicate cargoes where breakage must be prevented such as rice, wood pellets, urea prills...

VIGAN Barge unloader The Netherlands
150tph cocoa beans barge unloader
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Unloaders

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Silent equipment

Port equipment are sometimes located on river in the middle of cities, close to protected natural environment or simply subject to severe noise restrictions. VIGAN must provide efficient pneumatic unloaders, large industrial machine, meeting severe noise requirements.

By calculations, design and site measurements, VIGAN has developed a unique internal knowhow on the subject to develop noise protection systems of the turbo-group, the machine room, the suction piping...

VIGAN NIV unloader The Netherlands
150tph cocoa beans barge unloader
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Unloaders

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Biomass handling

With wood pellets handling, many additional requirements are on the table to integrate the unloader in a power plant and manage properly the product explosion risk. With more than five unloaders sold to large European power plants and revamping of biomass unloader from other brand, VIGAN has accumulated a lot of experience for this unique market.

VIGAN NIV unloader The Netherlands
NIV 400tph wood pellets unloader
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NIV unloader

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Pneumatic unloader over mechanical

For a new grain terminal, VIGAN has supplied a NIV along mechanical unloaders from the silo equipment manufacturer. After five years of operation, the customer repeats the trust in VIGAN pneumatic ship unloaders reliability and make the choice to add a second NIV500tph instead of a mechanical unloader to increase intake capacity and efficiency of his grain terminal.

VIGAN NIV unloader South Korea
2 NIV 500tph grain unloaders
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NIV unloader

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Trusting VIGAN pneumatic unloaders as main import solution

Over the past decade, main grain importer of Taiwan has thrusted VIGAN to replace the complete fleet of old mechanical and pneumatic unloaders by VIGAN pneumatic NIV ship unloaders. With 6 NIV, the customer can unload 70k tons daily thanks to VIGAN reliable solutions.

VIGAN NIV unloader Taiwan
6 NIV unloaders grain 400-600 tph
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NIV unloader

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Large capacities with pneumatic unloading

Confident in its technology, VIGAN has proposed the first 800 tons per hour in one pipe grain pneumatic ship unloader. This unloader opens new possibilities for our customers that can now chose the reliability, the performance and cost-efficiency of VIGAN pneumatic solutions for capacities that were until now only achievable by mechanical solutions.

VIGAN NIV unloader Morocco
NIV 800tph grain unloader
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Non-free flowing materials with pneumatic unloading

Although on all ship unloading technologies, the best performances are achieved on free-flowing products, VIGAN has developed unloading assistance accessories to disintegrate the caked product and restore its flow properties. This cutting tool is for example ideal for Soyabean meal unloading.

VIGAN NIV unloaderr Germany
NIV 120tph soyabean meal unloader
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Big mechanical unloading

For a customer with terminals projects with more than five million annual tons of agribulk product import, VIGAN has delivered three Simporter heads completely manufactured and pre-assembled in Belgium. Those unloaders are operating continuously with very low operating costs thanks to VIGAN twin-belt Technology.

VIGAN SIMPORTER China
3 Simporter head 1000tph soya bean unloaders
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SIMPORTER

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Loading corrosive product

For a customer with terminals projects with more than five million annual tons of agribulk product import, VIGAN has delivered three Simporter heads completely manufactured and pre-assembled in Belgium. Those unloaders are operating continuously with very low operating cost thanks to VIGAN twin-belt Technology.

VIGAN ship loader Russia
1500tph fertilizer loader
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Ship loaders

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Clean loading operation

Loading operations sometimes take place in city environment when clean operations are mandatory. For a customer in South of France, close to restaurants and touristic location, being able to operate without impacting the neighborhood was a key factor.

VIGAN has developed custom solution to manage dust right from the design. Our ship loaders are designed to load the product without any free fall in open-air in any vessel conditions.

VIGAN ship loader France
700tph cereal loader
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Ship loaders

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Trimming

When dust emission is not an issue but loading time is key, VIGAN can provide motorized trimming solutions. It allows a complete vessel loading with minimum loader movements and an easy management of the vessel load balancing.

VIGAN ship loader France
1000tph cereal loader
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Ship loaders

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