COLLABORATION TO PROTECT TUNNEL WORKERS
OVERVIEW
Customer / End User
Timeco SRL
Application
Mineral Processing
Industry
Construction
Country
Italy
Product(s) used
TX8005 AIR XD
TX8100 AIR XS
TX6351-2 SENTRO 1
TX9165 SENTRO 8
TX8100 AIR XS
TX6351-2 SENTRO 1
TX9165 SENTRO 8
Challenge
Underground and tunnelling environments are hazardous, exposing workers to flammable gases, combustible dust, and respirable crystalline silica, making accurate air quality monitoring essential. Drawing on extensive experience and its partnership with Trolex, Timeco supports clients from system design to implementation, ensuring effective monitoring solutions that protect workers in high-risk ATEX environments.
Outcome
An official Trolex partner and dealer in the Italian market, Timeco offers on-site
commissioning services and can supply all the required spare parts, including a range of Trolex area dust and silica monitors which operate in real-time, as well as a range of legacy gas detection equipment for the Italian and wider European tunnelling industry.
Company & Application
Since 1976, Timeco have been working in the field of tunnelling, particularly in tunnel boring machine (TBM) excavation and environmental monitoring systems. For almost 50 years, Timeco’s expertise have spanned from major TBM excavation projects to involvement in significant piling and foundations works.
The Challenge
Given that underground and tunnelling environments are recognised as hazardous areas (ATEX), TBM workers are consistently exposed to various flammable and hazardous gases throughout their working day, like combustible dust and high levels of RCS, therefore accurate and reliable monitoring of gases and air quality is essential.
Thanks to experience accrued, the wide spectrum of projects completed and the long-standing partnership with Trolex, Timeco are proud to support and assist customers from the initial design of complex air and/or gas monitoring systems in ATEX areas to the implementation stages during operations, to protect workers from various risks.
The AIR X plan
Timeco supply a variety of Trolex gas monitoring systems, including TX9165 Sentro 8 and TX6351-2 Sentro 1 Universal Gas Detector designed to perform in the most hazardous working environments, as well as the highly robust TX6383 Flammable Gas Detector.
To protect workers from a range of hazardous dusts, Timeco supply ground-breaking Trolex particulate monitors, such as the AIR XD Group I IS Dust Monitor, designed to monitor all types of dust in ATEX atmospheres, and the AIR XS Silica Monitor, which detects levels of RCS in tunnelling environments.
The AIR X solution
As an official Trolex partner and dealer in the Italian market, Timeco offers on-site commissioning services and can supply all the required spare parts. A Timeco spokesperson said about supplying Trolex solutions to tunnelling environments:
“We are satisfied with the 20+ years of co-operation with Trolex, as our official partner, because of the mutual trust in the innovative organisation and the reliability, user-friendly and durability of its products and solutions.
We are actively working to increase the scope and scale of Timeco’s offering in the near future, by bringing the partnership to grow further and starting to tackle the industrial uses as the presence and knowledge of the relevant stakeholders allow us to have a significant presence in the Italian market.”
“The beauty of our partnership with Timeco is the shared values we have built our business on, as Timeco have always echoed the belief in not just a high-quality product but a personable and professional service.
They aim for quality in everything they do and are highly trusted by their customers due to the way they collaborate and innovate. The whole team at Timeco have always been held in high regard because of this and are consider an integral part of the Trolex family, looking after our Italian customers with care and precision.
The future partnership with Timeco will only get stronger as we develop new ways to collaborate and bring Trolex innovation to the market, serving the customer and keeping people safe with leading technology.”
Steve Holland
Managing Director, Trolex
