The best pneumatic ship unloaders

Fully customized according to customer requests and site specifications

• Fixed gantry, on tires or wheels
• Low dust and noise emission
• Various flowrates and for a range of vessel sizes
• Discharge into trucks, conveyors, wagons...
• Many accessories and customizations

Simple and heavy-duty construction

• High wear resistant alloys for airlock and unloading piping systems
• Design with low turbulence and pressure drop thanks to unique elbow
• Made for ten million tons of discharge in standard conditions

Low dust emission

• Self-cleaning filter by air compressor with jet pulse system from 68 to 400m² with no moving parts
• Designed even for operating in urban environment

Low energy consumption

• Direct drive turbo-blower with inverter energy regulation
• Real multi-stage turbo-blower with aeronautic design for best performances
• VIGAN airlock for sealed product exhaust
• Optimized unloading piping for minimal pressure losses

Hydraulic boom

• Safe, reliable and maintenance-free hydraulic system to lift in and out the boom from the vessel
• The boom can be used to lift a skid-steer loader

Safe by design

• VIGAN includes an ATEX study, a risk analysis and a CE file in its design
• Safe right from the design without the use of complex electronic systems
• Designed based on the site conditions (wind, earthquake...)

Best efficiency through the ship compared to other technologies

The VIGAN pneumatic ship unloaders have the highest unloading efficiency thanks to a very low capacity reduction during cleaning phase of the vessel compared to the nominal capacity.