Press with vacuum
A Sifamir - Solutions for you, developed a vacuum system in the cold. This system facilitates the internal procedures of customers and increases the number of production / hour.
This innovation is an advantage in applications such as foile and thermo-bonded because it allows the operator to reduce operating time, reduce the number of operations and in some cases reducing the raw material used.
In a press as SIF40 | 50PV X2 the number of production / hour exceeds 800 parts / hour.
Sifamir supports project of the University of Minho - roadkills
Roads have multiple effects on wildlife, from animal mortality, habitat and population fragmentation, to modification of animal reproductive behaviour. Amphibians in particular, due to their activity patterns, population structure, and preferred habitats, are strongly affected by traffic intensity and road density. On the other hand, road-kills studies and conservation measures have been extensively applied on highways, although amphibians die massively on country roads, where conservation measures are not applied. Portugal has not any national program for monitoring road-kills, a common practice in other European countries (e.g. UK; The Netherlands). This is necessary to identify hotspots of road-kills in order to implement conservation measures correctly. However, monitoring road-kills is expensive and time consuming, and depend mainly on volunteers. Therefore, cheap, easy to implement, and automatic methods for detecting road-kills over larger areas (broad monitoring) and along time (continuous monitoring) are necessary. This project aimed at developing a mobile system that can scan and search for amphibians on the road surface thus creating an automatic map of casualties. A fixed tracker (also developed on the project) is then placed on the locations where a peak of casualties is found in order to capture images of the species while they are still alive and crossing the roads.
This project was sponsored by the FCT program under the reference PTDC/BIA-BIC/4296/2012.
