Miller Magazine Issue: 154 October 2022

76 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / OCTOBER 2022 Luca Celeghini President CESCO EPC Dr. Martino Celeghini CEO CESCO EPC Big-size storage, bigger capacity, and automatic control are the preconditions to a new gen- eration of conveying equipment. To support this market trend, Germany-based CESCO EPC has designed a new line of conveying equipment. Luca Celeghini, President of CESCO, and Martino Celeghini, CEO of the company, explains the advantages of the new product portfolio and the outlook for the future of grain logistic plants. CESCO unveils its new generation of conveying equipment Evolution in Conveying Technology Why is CESCO presenting a new line of conveying equipment? MC: With the rebranding of PETKUS Engineering into CESCO EPC we decided to focus our business activities on financing, design, procurement, erection, and com- missioning of large industrial grain storage and process- ing plants, mainly inland and port grain terminals. These industrial plants have totally different requirements in terms of conveying capacity, design, reliability, maintain- ability, and duty compared to standard conveying equip- ment used in the agribusiness: e.g., they demand 5000 hours of operation per year instead of 1000 hours. And these requirements are currently evolving and further increasing due to the increasing volume of grain logistic worldwide. We needed therefore to reflect these higher requirements into the product portfolio and detail de- sign of our conveying equipment, in order to be even more competitive in the top segment of suppliers for grain logistic plants. LC: The conveying equipment is the hearth of a stor- age plant, and it must keep working reliably under the most critical situations and be easily maintained in case of need. I have therefore reflected on the knowledge gained in the past 50 years of my work in the grain business and designed the new family accordingly, eliminating the disadvantages of the former generation and integrating new functionalities. What are the main CESCO conveying equipment, and which are the main characteristics? MC: We have focused on the three families of Chain Conveyors (CC), Belt Bucket Elevators (BBE) and Roller Belt Conveyors (RBC), being these conveyors included in 99% of our contracts. During the development we gave particular attention to prevent dust emission in operation as individual machine and as part of a whole plant. Also, the drive and tail stations of all conveyors have been completely redesigned in order to prevent