Experts in bulk materials handling systems and high-quality steel fabrication, the company can supply individual pieces of equipment or on-site personnel for installation or maintenance, right up to full turnkey delivery of new processing or handling facilities.

Products regularly handled include animal feeds, wheat, malting grains, flaxseed, oilseeds, wood-chip or pellets, flour and a spectrum of dairy products and by-products. Buttimer Engineering frequently supply conveying, storage, intake, chutes, cleaning, destoning, drying, crushing, milling and out-loading processes. The company also designs and installs ducting, piping and plant for aspiration, water, fire safety and ATEX systems.

Buttimer Engineering can draw on the expertise of each of its teams to offer pre-installation design and specification, steel fabrication, on-site installation and maintenance, procurement and project management services. Over 40 years serving agricultural industries gives Buttimer Engineering a depth of experience on the complexities around preventing product degradation, suppression and return of emitted dust, compaction, heating and the huge array of factors involved in designing highly effective, durable and safe materials handling systems for food industries.

From animal food plants, to medical devices, protein processing to pharmaceuticals, much of our activity in this area is the provision of highly skilled fitting crews on-site to facilitate installation or maintenance. We also fabricate stainless steel piping, ducting, vessels and platforming for large industrial plants.

Buttimer Engineering’s Project Delivery teams can manage the complete design and installation of a facility, or a particular subcontract. We also regularly carry out shut-down maintenance preventative maintenance and emergency repair work for our clients. The team can manage on-site safety protocols, including specifying ATEX zoning, designing and installing required aspiration and water systems as well as developing project plans, snag listing, subcontractor management and various project management and supervisor functions.

When contributing to Biomass & Power Generation projects, Buttimer Engineering provides complete turnkey design, specification, procurement and installation of bulk material handling systems to the power generation industry – offering an expert partner to deliver a complex aspect of plant design and construction. Applying our core expertise of bulk materials handling to this sector, Buttimer Engineering provide fuel and ash handling solutions – which may include fuel intake equipment, conveyors, elevators, weighers and silos, much of which must be capable of handling abrasive fuel and hot ash – to power, waste, incinerator, CHP and other combustion facilities.

Along with fuel and ash handling systems, ducting systems, aspiration, piping, exhaust stacks and firewater storage systems are also common elements of power station mechanical system design. Buttimer Engineering can design, fabricate and install these elements along with structural steelwork, walkways and supports. From turnkey plant development or project contracting, to small maintenance or upgrade requirements, Buttimer Engineering can provide the design, procurement, project management and on-site installation teams required to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the solution required.

Biomass can be diverse (ranging from household waste, to agricultural by-products to wood pellets) and certain varieties can be difficult bulk products to handle – Buttimer Engineering have been developing considerable expertise for the handling of various biomass products and can offer expert guidance in handling and storage requirements. Managing emitted dust, compaction self-heating and degradation of biomass products can be particularly important for designing safe storage and handling systems. Whether a turnkey power generation facility, a converted fossil fuel plant or miscellaneous upgrades or maintenance of existing facilities, Buttimer Engineering is an ideal mechanical engineering partner.

DOCKSOLID®  is a market-leading range of Standard and Environmental ship unloading hoppers. Loaded with a crane and grab, DOCKSOLID®  hoppers are a robust, reliable and efficient bulk handling solutions - customized to the product, terminal and specifications of our clients. The innovative Environmental Hopper combines DOCKSOLID®  reliability with state-of-the-art dust control features; it is a world leader in clean bulk handling.

DOCKSOLID® port equipment is designed and fabricated by Buttimer Engineering for bulk ports, logistics hubs and industrial facilities to handle dry bulk commodities ranging from grains and foodstuffs to minerals, coal, ores, biomass, woodchip, oilseeds and much more besides.

The DOCKSOLID®  brand stands for well-engineered, reliable equipment with three core attributes: State-of-the-art environmental controls, flexibility of use & very effective manoeuvrability, along with well-engineered structural design and high-quality steel for strength and longevity. Hence the tag-line: Clean. Flexible. Robust.