When a large Australian food processor was encountering setbacks due to poor quality belt products, BSC stepped in to implement a replacement plan with Gates® Poly Chain® GT® Carbon™ Belt. This allowed them to minimise production downtime and move forward with greater load capacity thanks...
Stanley Roy McAlpine and Winifred Grace started making and selling delicious condiments from their home in 1919. Over time, the business grew and eventually they established a factory in Lidcombe that is still operating today. Three Threes’ extensive product lines span across premium condiments such as...
BSC Product Manager Troy Markland has become a Power Transmission connoisseur — managing a substantial portfolio of chain, pulleys, taper locks, sprockets, and ironware that will see a product from harvest, to processing, to the shelf of a local supermarket. Australian agriculture is in unprecedented times, according to Troy. A robust harvest season has seen an increase in demand for power transmission products, impaired by the overseas logistical challenges and shortages...
Maintaining full control over ventilation and humidity was critical to Costa, a leading mushroom grower and packer. So they engaged BSC engineers to conduct routine vibration testing at their facility in South Australia. Luckily, the regular inspections helped discover critical reliability issue with some fan bearings, helping the BSC engineering...
BSC branches across Australia and New Zealand are best known for providing the widest range of industrial parts and components, from bearings to power transmission products and more. But, as BSC State Sales Manager Leon Stefanec clarifies, beyond being a supplier BSC is also actively involved in providing engineering and manufacturing services to...
When BSC Sales Specialist Jamie Stonehouse found that his customers, a major Melbourne-based food manufacturer, was exposing their jar filling machine to water washdowns to get rid of the machine’s stickiness, he became concerned about the machine’s bearings. Heavy washdown was causing the bearings to fail more frequently than they...
When asked about what operational size justifies an investment in radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a food and beverage business, industry expert John Meaney responds back: when isn’t it the right size to adopt an RFID solution? As the National Sales Manager for Inventory Control Systems (ICS), John...
With food manufacturers and processors under increased scrutiny to monitor food safety, the CRC GREENLIGHT programme is very smart and simple to use solution for access to safe industrial lubricants. For a cannery on the outskirts of Adelaide, the CRC GREENLIGHT programme has made compliance and auditing simple to manage,...
When a major Queensland manufacturer of bakery products sought a safe solution for chain lubrication for their oven, an Alemlube contactless lubrication system proposed by BSC’s Peter Solloway proved to be an appealing option. As BSC Queensland State Sales Manager, Peter explains why the chain lubrication system offered by Alemlube was the ideal...
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...
