Coal Processing Plant

Pike River Coal Ltd, Reefton, New Zealand

Pike River Coal Limited (PRCL) has employed Brightwater Peat Limited to design and construct a modern coal processing plant for the development of their underground mine on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

The coal will be pumped through a slurry pipeline from the underground coal crusher and slurry plant approximately 10.6km down the valley to the processing plant...


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Road to Rail Transfer Terminal

Pike River Coal Ltd, Ikamatua, New Zealand

Brightwater were contracted by Pike River Coal Limited (PRCL) to design, manufacture, install and commission all aspects of this project.

Brightwater project managed the normal structural and mechanical aspects of the project as well as external trades such as Civil and Electrical.




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100m³ Coal Reception Pull-Floor Bunker

Juken Nissho Ltd, Kaitaia, New Zealand

Juken Nissho had purchased a new 20MW heat plant from Easteel Industries. In conjunction with this they required a fuel handling system that could handle either imported coal or wood waste generated from on-site processes.

Brightwater Engineers designed, fabricated and installed, a coal system incorporating a coal reception bunker with an integral Saxlund International Pull-Floor discharge system.


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Coal Storage and Feed System

Fonterra. Clandeboye, Timaru, New Zealand

Fonterra installed two new 40MW Easteel boilers as part of their major expansion at the Clandeboye dairy plant in 2004, to provide energy for their additional milk powder drying facility.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built, installed and commissioned a fully automated system that included...



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Coal Handling System

Alpine Dairy Products LTD, Clandeboye, Timaru, New Zealand

In 1997, Alpine Dairy Products Limited expanded its operation at Clandeboye (near Timaru) by installing two new 20 MW boilers.

Easteel Industries engaged Brightwater Engineers to design, build, and commission a fully automatic coal handling system for their boiler, incorporating...



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Aerial Coal Bucket Project

Solid Energy

Solid Energy identified the need to increase the output of their coal transportation capacity on the Aerial Ropeway at their Ngakawau open cast mine site on the West Coast of the South Island.

BEL carried out a feasibility study for Solid Energy on the existing system and identified several areas, which would allow the existing Aerial Ropeway to increase its output by providing significant weight reductions from the existing coal buckets.


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CHH Tasman Coal Hopper and Infeed Screw

Kawerau, New Zealand

CHH Tasman wished to improve the calorific value of wet fuel delivered to the Energy Plant at their Kawerau, New Zealand mill site.

Because of the trial nature of this Project any solution had to be low cost, yet robust enough to cope with the material being handled, plus fully flexible in terms of it’s throughput capabilities. BEL were contracted by CHH Tasman to design, manufacture and install a free-standing Hopper and Metering Screw capable of holding 18m3 of coal and delivering within a range of 0.6 – 8.0 t/hr.


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MDF Board Inspection Line

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is a world leader in the manufacture of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF). The company produces 400,000m3 of MDF panels per year in 168 size multiples. The board inspection operation required MDF board to feed though the system at 40 metres per minute.

Brightwater Engineers designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned the fully automatic board inspection and packaging system to meet the demands of the plant.


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Veneer Line and LVL Press

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is a world leader in the manufacture of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF). In 2000, NPIL announced the establishment of $80,000,000 in a Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) production facility.

Brightwater Engineers was awarded a single contract in 2 stages to carry out the mechanical installation and commissioning of the Veneer Line, Drier and Waste Handling equipment in the Veneer Building, and the Scarfer, LVL Layup, Press and Billet Handling Equipment in the LVL Building. The total scope of work involved over 40,000 man hours with a peak labour force of 35 Trades persons.

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MDF Board Feeding System

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is a world leader in the manufacture of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF). The company produces 400,000m3 of MDF panels per year in 168 size multiples. The board inspection operation required MDF board to feed though the system at 40 metres per minute.

Brightwater Engineers designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned the fully automatic feeding and packaging system to meet the demands of this high speed sanding equipment.


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LVL Billet Handling System

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is a world leader in the manufacture of Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF). In 2000, NPIL announced the investment in a Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) production facility.

Brightwater Engineers took the Dieffenbacher drawings, modified them for NPIL and NZ standards procured materials and equipment, fabricated, assembled, installed and commissioned the fully automatic billet handling system to meet the demands of the Deiffenbacher Continuous Press.


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2,000m³ BIOMASS FUEL STORAGE BUNKER

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is the largest MDF plant in the World. A major expansion including a third MDF production line in 1997/98 involved the installation of an additional 38MW energy plant.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned a 2,000m3 capacity Saxlund International push floor bunker. Fully automatic, the bunker feeds the three energy plants with hogged and screened biomass fuel at a rate of up to 25 tonnes per hour.


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800m³ Sander Dust Storage Silo

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned an 800m3 capacity Saxlund International sliding frame silo, the largest of five similar silos now on site.

Fully automatic, the silo feeds the three energy plants at a rate of up to 50m3 per hour.



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Push Floor Re-entry Bunkers

Hyne & Son PTY LTD, 35m³ Tuan Queensland, 90m³ Tumbarumba NSW

On two separate occasions, on different sites Hyne and Son required a facility to re-introduce fuel into existing fuel conveying systems. This requirement had arisen because of the “on site” generated wood waste fuel being produced at differing times to the fuel demands of the Heat Plants.

Brightwater Engineers designed, manufactured and installed specific Push Floor bunkers for each application.



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360m³ Sliding Frame Silo and 800m³ Pull Floor Bunker

Juken Nissho LTD, Kaitaia, New Zealand

During 2000, Juken Nissho Ltd built a new Veneer line and Sawmill at their Kaitaia site which incorporated an 18 MW Easteel energy centre.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built, installed and commissioned a Saxlund International Sliding Frame silo for the drywood shavings and a Pull Floor bunker to accept the balance of site produced material, both truck delivered and conveyed.



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200m³ Dry Shavings Storage Silo

Claymark Industries, Rotorua, New Zealand

Claymark Industries in Rotorua is a major processor of dressed timber for overseas markets. Their operations generate up to 200m3 of dry wood shavings per day and this material was creating a significant disposal problem.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned an 200m3 capacity Saxlund International sliding frame silo for the storage of dry shavings. The silo is portal mounted allowing an 80m3 capacity truck and trailer unit to drive beneath it and load out for disposal off site.


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550m³ & 275m³ Sliding Floor Silos & 20m³ Pull Floor Bunker

Blue Mountain Lumber, Conical Hill, New Zealand

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned two Saxlund International sliding frame silos of 550m3 and 275m3 capacities for the sawdust and shavings, and a 20m3 pull floor bunker for the hogged fuel.

Fully automatic, the silos feeds the energy plant at varying rates according to load and fuel availability.



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Claymark Katikati Biomass Fuel Management System

Claymark Katikati

The Claymark Katikati site is undergoing a major upgrade incorporating a new energy plant, kiln drying system and remanufacturing facility. The volume of sawdust produced by the existing mill was insufficient for the new 7MW Easteel Heatpac™ plant supplying energy to the Windsor drying kilns.

Brightwater Engineers have provided a flexible system that can use “imported fuels” as well as those generated by processes on site to give a wide range of fuel options.


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Fuel Management System

CHH Pine Panels, Oberon, NSW, Australia

The new fuel managment system and heatplant were required to replace a thermal oil heater system that had been completely destroyed by fire in 2000.

The equipment installed by Brightwater included coarse fuel screening, dust screening, a fully enclosed dry fuel push floor bunker and a 90 cubic metre capacity elevated mixed fuel surge bunker situated close to the boiler plant.


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Biomass Fuel Handling System

Carter Holt Harvey Ltd LVL, Marsden Point, New Zealand

CHH required a fuel managment system that could handle a wide range of site-produced wood residues including chips, sawdust, hogged bark and veneer trimmings.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built, installed and commissioned a 200m3 Saxlund International Sliding Frame silo for the dry wood waste and a 1,000m3 Push Floor bunker to accept the balance of site produced material delivered by conveyors.


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Shavings Storage and Handling Facility

Claymark, Katikati, New Zealand

Claymark Industries operate a sawmill complex near Katikati in the Bay of Plenty. BEL provided the original fuel handling system as part of the handling equipment for the Easteel Heatpak which was completed in 2003.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built, installed and commissioned a fully automatic system...



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1500m³ Biomass Fuel Storage Bunker

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd, Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd is the largest MDF plant in the World. A major expansion to include a Laminated Veneer Lumber Plant (LVL) on the same site in 2001 required an additional 20 MW Easteel Energy Plant and additional fuel storage.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned a 1500m3 capacity Saxlund International push floor bunker. Fully automated, the bunker feeds the 20 MW Easteel Energy Plant with wood waste fuel at a rate of up to 50 m3 per hour.


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Imported Fuel Reception Bunker & Preparation Facility

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

The Nelson Pine Industries site requires regular deliveries of biomass fuel from off-site sources.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built, installed and commissioned a 250m3 in-ground push floor reception bunker for imported fuel. The bunker is fed by truck and trailer units delivering fuel from outlying sawmills and timber processing plants.



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Shavings Storage

McAlpines Ltd, Rangiora, New Zealand

McAlpines were already dumping wood shavings and the new planer mill they had purchased would increase this waste. It was decided to use the shavings as bio-fuel in the energy plant, in turn reducing the consumption of coal on site.

In association with Windsor Engineering Group, who supplied the shavings extraction and conveying system, BEL offered a 275 m3 storage silo complete with discharge screw. This would store the shavings and supply them as required to the boiler fuel feed system.


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Biomass Fuel Handling System

Pan Pac Forest Products LTD, Whirinaki, Napier

During 2001-2002, Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd installed a 36MW Easteel Bubbling Fluid Bed (BFB) Boiler. Pan Pac required a Fuel Handling system to store and deliver fuel for the new boiler.

The Fuel Handling and Management System designed, supplied, installed and commissioned by Brightwater comprises equipment to separately store and reclaim coarse woodwaste as the primary fuel for the boiler and a shavings handling and storage system.


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Biomass Fuel Management Systems

This document contains real world examples of Biomass Fuel Management Systems provided by Brightwater Engineering.







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Laminex MDF Plant

Gympie, Queensland Australia

Laminex MDF plant near Gympie, Queensland Australia, required the replacement of their existing G1 Heat Energy Plant, which has been in production over 20 years.

The new heat energy plant had to be engineered to have a design life of 20 years, and would require being in production 360 days a year, 24 hours a day, with a target uptime of 99%.


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Gold Processing Plant

Oceana Gold Globe, West Coast, New Zealand

In mid 2006 Brightwater were awarded contracts for the structural, mechanical and piping supply and installation scope for the new gold processing plant at Oceana Gold’s Globe Progress Gold Mine at Reefton, New Zealand.

Brightwater had previously been awarded the fabrication contract for all tanks, chutes and processing vessels which included a 20m diameter clarifier.



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SMP Project

Oceana Gold, Macraes Flat, Otago, New Zealand

Oceana Gold constructed a gold processing plant to extract ore concentrate at the Globe Progress Mine, in Reefton. This plant was due to be commissioned and in production in the first quarter of 2007.

The ore concentrate was to be transported by road/rail/road to be further processed at the Macraes Flat Processing Plant.



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Manganese Ore Stacking and Storage

BHP Billiton (Gemco) Groote Eylandt, Nothern Territory

BHP Billiton GEMCO produces 15% of the global demand for manganese, and is one of the world’s largest producers of Manganese Ore. They wished to increase their annual output from 300,000 tonnes to 500,000 tonnes per year due to increased demand.





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Stockton Mine Water Treatment Plant

Solid Energy New Zealand

Solid Energy New Zealand (SENZ) employed Brightwater to design a Water Treatment Plant (WTP) to improve the quality of run off water from their Stockton Mine Site.




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Chip Reception, Storage and Reclaim System

Norske Skog Tasman, Kawerau, New Zealand

Norske Skog Tasman wished to extend facilities for the receipt, storage and reclamation of chip imported to their Kawerau, New Zealand mill site.

Brightwater Engineering were contracted by Norske Skog Tasman to deliver a Full Turn-Key Chip Import, Storage and Reclaim system that included Traffic Management, Product Separation and Data Communications.



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Plantation Pulpwood Terminals (PPT) Truck Dumpers and Chip Stacker

Albany W.A

PPT is a joint venture between Timbercorp and ITC who are plantation forest owners and managers and major chip exporters of mainly eucalyptus chips.

Brightwater contracted Rader Inc. of Atlanta as their partner to design a radial stacker with luffing boom which could automatically build up a 50,000 tonne stockpile of wood chips. Brightwater manufactured the stacker components and shipped them to WA.


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Chip Reception Bunker

Nelson Pine Industries LTD, Richmond, New Zealand

Nelson Pine Industries have regular deliveries of wood chip from other suppliers. In the past, these chips have been tipped and bulldozed onto the stockpile of site-produced chip.

Brightwater Engineers designed, built and commissioned a 150m3 capacity Saxlund International. push floor reception bunker. Fully automatic, the bunker feeds into the chip supply line at 120m3 per hour with no operator involvement required.


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JNL Gisborne En-masse Conveyors

Gisborne, Kaitaia, New Zealand

As part of a recent plant upgrade JNL Gisborne required steep angle conveyors to convey wood chip and hogged veneer trim.

For the steep angle conveying application BEL manufactured & supplied Model CW En-Masse conveyors. The CW conveyors are typically configured in an “S” shape arrangement and this enables horizontal inlet and outlet positions for improved conveying transitions, while still achieving steep angle conveying.


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Brightwater Services

Brightwater Services reflects Brightwater's belief that ongoing maintenance is critical to achieving cost-effective returns from capital plant investment.






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Delegats Wine Estate, Walkway Project

Marlborough, New Zealand

In early 2005 Delegats Wine Estate commenced construction of a new South Island wine processing facility near Renwick in the heart of the Marlborough grape growing region.

The 20,000 tonne per annum winery was staged over 3 years with the last stage due for completion in March 2008.

In all aspects of construction Delegats demand the highest level of quality and visual appearance be maintained.

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BE 60 LT Yarder

Forestry Equipment

Brightwater’s BE 60 yarder is a medium sized yarder, crawler mounted, and able to yard long reaches with ease.

Fitted with an Allison five speed automatic transmission as standard, coupled to it’s 300hp Cummins L-10 engine, this yarder can whistle the turns to the landing in short time.



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BE 70 Yarder

Forestry Equipment

Brightwater’s BE 70 LT yarder is the result of their ability to develop and manufacture specialist forestry equipment to meet their client’s demanding requirements.

Features fitted as standard, such as a six speed powershift transmission, (with gear selection from the joystick) and single lever joysticks for winch control, make the BE 70 LT an excellent yarder to own and operate.


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BE 85 Yarder

Forestry Equipment

The largest model in Brightwater’s range, the BE 85 has an 85ft telescoping tower, with eight hydraulic guy winches.

The unit is mounted on a purpose built track base, with two speeds and can negotiate grades up to 50 per cent. Setup and relocation is quick and efficient. The yarder can log a full 170 degrees from one setup, ensuring maximum time harvesting.



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