The Centriquip agent in southern Ireland, Roto Spiral, has equipped a 20-foot flatbed lorry with a CQ5000 centrifuge to provide mobile dewatering services for a wide range of applications. The mobile unit is fully self-contained and has its own on-board generator to supply power to the centrifuge in any location. The company, based in Knocktopher, Count Kilkenny, operates the mobile service through its subsidiary Terra watch and offers a range of services for the treatment of wastewater and other environmental processes such as effluent clarification.

The mobile unit, which is available for both long and short-term hire, can be ready for use within one hour of arriving at the site.

The Centriquip system is operated by fully trained staff who take full responsibility for the entire process.

'These days dumping sludge or untreated effluent into a river or the sea is not an option, so if someone's equipment breaks down it's a serious problem,' says Terra watch director Larry Doyle.

'Our mobile unit can often get someone out of a tricky situation until the machine can be repaired.

We can service and repair any make of centrifuge in much the same way as Centriquip does in the UK and having the mobile CQ5000 gives us the opportunity to show customers just what the latest technology can do,' Larry continued.

The Roto Spiral investment in the mobile unit has already paid dividends and bookings for the hire service are very healthy.

Having the ability to demonstrate a Centriquip decanter to a prospective customer on site is expected to win sales of new equipment in the buoyant Irish market.