Land Rover Vehicles has specified Hughes Pumps water jetting equipment to remove over-spayed paint from skids used to transport Range Rover, Discovery and Land Rover bodies through its paint shop.
The new environmentally friendly skid cleaning plant has been designed to be an efficient and cost effective.
Previously, Land Rover sent the paint skids off-site, and paint deposits were burnt off in ovens. Not only is water jetting greener, as it only uses clean water, but also the new facility has enabled skids to be cleaned on-line, without disrupting production.
Further, where skids became damaged over time due to heat distortion and transport incidents, that no longer happens.
The bespoke skid clean facility is 15m long by 6m wide and uses three robots fitted with high impact Hughes rotary nozzles. The nozzles are powered by two Hughes HPS3000 pumps with a combined delivery of 200 litres per minute at 900 bar (13,000psi), producing a water jet velocity of 400 metres per second.
