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FRUTIGER recently installed a mobile MobyDick ConLine KIT Flex 400MC wheel washing system for a leading building materials company in the UK and Ireland at their new premises in a quiet town in Wales. The site is surrounded by residential and office buildings, so it was important to keep the roads clean outside the premises. The wheel washing system used has a galvanised 4 metre long washing module and a recycling tank with scraper conveyor for automatic dirt discharge. This makes the system ideally suited for light to medium soiled trucks and frequencies of up to 120 trucks per day.

As a global company and market leader for wheel washing systems, FRUTIGER is active in most countries worldwide. In South America, as well, the demand for modern solutions to keep public roads around construction sites and mines clean is increasingly growing. For example, the FRUTIGER branch in the USA recently installed a KIT Flex 400C wheel washing system for a copper mine in Peru. As one of the most modern wheel washing systems in the South American country, the system now reliably ensures clean roads around the mine.

A MobyDick ConLine KIT Plus 800 B-100P wheel washing system was installed shortly before Easter for an earth and construction waste landfill site in the Ostalbkreis district in Germany.
A common problem around landfills is dirty public roads caused by departing trucks. To solve this, FRUTIGER offers various MobyDick wheel washing systems. The range extends from stationary to mobile, standard to customised and from rental to purchase. The MobyDick ConLine KIT Plus wheel washing systems from FRUTIGER stand for maximum functionality and simple installation. A stationary model was installed for this customer. The system is designed for up to 350 medium to heavily soiled trucks per day and now helps to keep public roads clean.

Since 24 February, the Ukrainian population has been suffering from the armed conflicts and fears for their uncertain future. The consequences of the ongoing and intensifying conflict for the civilian population are dramatic and the need for humanitarian aid is multiplying. As a sign of solidarity, FRUTIGER Company AG has decided to make a donation of 3,060 CHF to Swiss Solidarity.
Swiss Solidarity’s aid focuses on taking in refugees in neighbouring countries, especially Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Moldova. It is working closely with its Swiss partner organizations active in the region, assessing the situation and doing all it can to organize help. Every support counts.

KIT Plus is a wide range of mobile and stationary solutions designed for high truck frequency applications.
For the first time in New Zealand, a KIT Plus 600 B-50P has now been commissioned at a landfill site in Nelson by our partner Condor Pumps.

Recently, the MobyDick partner in Western Switzerland was commissioned to install a MobyDick ConLine KIT Plus 800 for a leading global cement company. The system was planned in close cooperation with the customer and in addition to a 50m3 recycling tank, it has also an intermediate concrete wheel loader tank. After each washing process, the majority of the washed-off dirt particles settle in this tank, whereupon the recycled water flows by means of an overflow into the following steel tank, where it is available again in high quality for further washing processes. The concrete tank can be excavated with minimal effort using a wheel loader.

For a company near Frankfurt with focus on demolition and earthworks, a MobyDick ConLine KIT Flex 400 MB wheel washing system from the FRUTIGER rental park was recently installed. For the FRUTIGER fitters, it was a matter of improvising, because a special installation was necessary in order not to block the construction site access road. This circumstance was only apparent at the construction site, but the FRUTIGER fitters were able to solve this quickly and competently. The 4-metre long installation is now in use and ensures that the trucks can leave the site with washed tyres, thus keeping the public roads clean.

Rizhao Port in Lanshan is a large shipping port for bulk cargo in China’s Shandong province. It is in the Yellow Sea halfway between Rizhao and Lianyungang and next to Haizhou Bay.
Day after day, countless trucks distribute the freight arriving here to all of China. The bulk goods stored on the port area often cause the wheels and chassis of the vehicles to become heavily soiled, which leads to constant contamination of the public roads around the port.

The MobyDick wheel washing systems from FRUTIGER are also available for rent. Recently, FRUTIGER delivered a wheel washing system from its in-house rental park for the Czech Republic. A new leisure area is currently being built on the site of a former landfill near Prague. Before anything new can be built here, hard work has to be done, which causes major pollution problems. To solve the problem, the customer rented a MobyDick ConLine KIT Flex 400MC wheel washing system. This system is mobile and can be moved to another location at any time, depending on the workflow. Here, the fully automatic system washes the dirty wheels of about 30-70 trucks per day.