Porsalina grows with Sacmi

Sacmi recently started up a casting bench for one-piece WC bowls and two chamber dryers at the Riyadh facility of Porsalina (Arabian Company for Ceramics), Saudi Arabia’s second-largest ceramic sanitaryware producer.

The BCO066 mechanised bench for one-piece WCs serves for casting WCs together with cisterns as single ceramic pieces, undoubtedly the heaviest (over 35 kg) and most complex kind of sanitaryware to produce. Featuring a dryer that can dry 66 plaster moulds, the BCO066 bench allows two castings per day and provides performance of outstanding quality.

Two RWD407 ceramic piece chamber dryers have also been operative for several months now: each can handle a total of about 400 pieces loaded on 28 cars, equivalent to eight tons of ceramic mass. Fuelled by LPG, these dryers offer excellent uniformity of hot air distribution thanks to rotary cones distributed along the machine in intra-car positions. Temperature and moisture are adjusted constantly by a latest-generation PLC. In a 12-hour cycle with a working temperature of 80° C an outgoing moisture content of just 0.2% was achieved.