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  THE BEACON GROUP - IN THE NEWS May, 2011
Tewksbury, MA Beacon Completes Project in South Korea TEWKSBURY, MA - The Beacon Group of Tewksbury, Massachusetts recently completed a highly specialized material handling solution for a nuclear waste processing facility in South Korea. This international project included custom conveyance of radioactive waste drums thru a complex series of inspection steps. The sophisticated inspection equipment was designed and built by VJ Inspection systems of East Haven, CT. Testing included dosimeter analysis, high energy X-ray, compressive strength and photographic archiving of all radiological waste. Titan was selected to provide the conveyor system. www.titanconveyors.com Four (4) extreme duty rail car systems were deployed to move bulk items. One (1) of the rail car systems transported a large rotary turntable with a 10 ton capacity. Twin multi ton cranes were commissioned www.capcocrane.com to load and unload the conveyor system. Cranes were also utilized to manipulate a wide array of container sizes, shapes and weights and therefore a unique "fail safe" grappling device was engineered to eliminate the need for tooling changes. Precision weighing of all items manipulated by the cranes was also part of the specification. All systems had to be operated from a remote room via Closed Circuit TV and customized human / machine interfaces. The Beacon Group provides highly specialized and traditional material handling solutions throughout the USA and beyond.
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