When BSC Bundaberg Branch Manager, Dale Jackson learned about regular coupling failures in a mine’s dump trucks, he suggested installing Lovejoy Quick-Flex® coupling by Timken with steel hubs as an alternative solution. The couplings do not need to be realigned and can be replaced just by replacing the element,...
In recent years, ABB’s Dodge Motorised Torque Arm II drives, better known as the MTAII, have become one the most popular direct shaft mount gearboxes on the market. This, as BSC’s Head of Product Management and Global SourcingLee Quigley explains, is thanks to features such as...
For nearly two decades, BSC and Collier & Miller’s have worked together to provide wholesale and retail supply to industries in the Griffith region. BSC National Account Manager - Agriculture Russell Randal and Collier & Miller’s Mark Stewart talk look back at how the business relationship grew over...
With huge orders to fulfill, an untimely breakdown was the last thing that a major Australian biscuit manufacturer could afford. So, when Chris Wheatley, BSC’s Agriculture, Food & Beverage Manager for South Australia learned that the plant was struggling with frequent failure of their conveyor chain...
Of all the industrial businesses that CBC State Manager Ralph Campagna has engaged with over the last 42 years working with CBC, he has found abattoirs to be among the most demanding from a maintenance point of view. “Abattoirs are quite unique in that they run...
“This place is five times more corrosive than the dead sea,” says Glenn Burney, BSC Product Specialist, as he describes the sea water dehydration plant where BSC is supporting its customer, a major salt producer, to set up a new chain conveyor system. “The plant was...
Crushers are the backbone of any quarry operation, so it’s imperative that they are always operating rain hail or shine. “A blocked or jammed crusher puts the drive system under immense strain, which can cause v-belts to slip and squeal until the blockage is cleared. Belt...
Based in the small town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Bundaberg Brewed Drinks has been making some of Australia’s most popular non-alcoholic beverages since the 1960s. Over the past few years, BSC’s Bundaberg branch has been working with the beverage company as a trusted distributor of industrial...
Baler chain failures can be very frustrating when they happen in the middle of the busy harvesting season, particularly at night. As Troy Markland, Product Manager at BSC explains, the broken chain often needs to be replaced right there in the field to continue the...
Autumn rainfalls of above average in most of Victoria and New South Wales this year mean busy times ahead for Shaun Thorneycroft, whose business, Precise Header & Ag Repairs, helps more than 70 growers in north-west Victoria with their header services each year. With over 17...
