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As the Pioneers of Unified Fuel Management, Banlaw have spent three decades refining the functionality of the refuelling area to keep it safe whilst still achieving speeds of up to 1,000lpm. Our safety expertise covers fuel management as well as storage and use of other hydrcarbons. Outsource your safety consulting to save time and money whilst keeping your employees and equipment safe. Our staff value the same safety policies as you and can help you meet all relevant safety criteria. We are proud of our safety record and the piece of mind it gives you on your site.

Avoid dangerous and costly fires, learn 4 strategies to ensure you are refuelling safely.

Fuel is the number one consumable expense for most heavy industrial operations and fleets. Inefficient refuelling wastes significant time and money. Formula One fans are currently waiting for the FIA to confirm whether in-race refuelling will be allowed once more. While Bernie Ecclestone and some drivers are all for it, there are also safety and cost considerations. When refuelling was last introduced to F1 in 1984, the pit lane went from being somewhere to stop with a problem, to the place where competitive advantage is achieved. On this highly visible stage races were won with a combination of high speed refuelling hardware, a well-trained team, and optimised processes.

Banlaw is your trusted expert in advising on integrated systems to give you the benefit of fast refuelling and fire prevention. As part of its best practice approach, Banlaw FillSafe™ is the only refuelling system to have an integrated fire-safe valve on the bottom and side entry tank inlets that only remains open during the refuelling process. Fires on-board large equipment often occur during operation and in servicing. In the event of such a fire, fuel loss via the tank inlet is eliminated because the valve is closed. Other valves and systems do not afford the same fire protection while also maintaining safe, fast refuelling times, with zero overflow, zero spillage and zero pressure on tanks.

We design, engineer and manufacture a range of high performance diesel refuelling components including dry break nozzles, dry break receivers, vents and dust caps. Our products are designed and built for reliability and performance, and used in some of the harshest work environments around the world. Our Dry Break Nozzles are made from steel and aluminium and are ergonomically designed for easy and balanced operation even under high pump pressures. Banlaw dry break nozzles have the highest flow rate capability to help you improve diesel refuelling times and reduce vehicle downtime.

Following the success of the field trial, and subsequent multi-tank installations of FillSafe Zero, the solutions deployed for the Cowal Gold Mine have now been distilled into standardised and integrated Banlaw refuelling and overfill protection products.

Banlaw’s products are the safest and most rugged refuelling equipment available for your business. With the addition of our new, specialist cold temperature products, we’ve now got you covered from -60°C to +55°C. Banlaw’s refuelling products have always been built tough to withstand harsh and rugged operating environments. After extensive field and laboratory testing, Banlaw has introduced a new cold temperature range for use between -10°C and -60°C (-76°F). The difference comes from seal elastomers that better withstand extreme cold. Banlaw standard products are able to withstand extreme heat, safely operating in temperatures up to 55°C (131°F).

Banlaw can help you save time and money on your mine site with safe, accurate and efficient refuelling and refilling. Banlaw provides integrated hydrocarbon management systems, products and expert advice to help mining companies to improve their productivity by reducing fuel loss reducing fuel contamination, as well as ensuring faster, safer refuelling. Fuel is typically the second largest expense on a mine site so you’ll quickly start to see the benefits from maximum tax credits, increased efficiency and reduced maintenance and downtime.

Long haul rail trips are demanding on your inter-vehicle refuelling requirements. A safe, simple, reliable In Line connection system is required to keep your operation moving. Banlaw has developed a unique, leak free, safe and reliable product.

Banlaw has a dedicated Research and Development team that are committed to continuous improvement of our products and services in order to maintain our industry leading position. Our team can also work on specific projects to solve your particular refuelling or hydrocarbon management issues. For example, we have worked with Pacific National – a large freight loco operator in Australia – to develop our unique in-line refuelling coupling to overcome concerns they had regarding their fluid couplings used within In Line Refuelling systems, commonly used on longer haul journeys.

Time is money in mining, that’s why Banlaw FillSafe™ helps miners to cut service times through safe and effi­cient high-speed refuelling with zero overfl­ow, zero spillage and zero pressure on tanks. Find out how Banlaw helped Glencore (formerly Xstrata Coal) increase their refuelling flow rates to almost 1,100 litres/minute and the measures undertaken to reduce spillage and contamination of oils and coolant. The successful results saw a roll out of the Banlaw FillSafe™ system at other sites – find out the details here.