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Lifting Design, Handling & Validation
Specify any lifting duty separately from filtration performance and fabric tensile strength.
Lifting Design, Handling & Validation
Selected for your slurry. Manufactured for your project.
Standard pad-based dewatering tubes are not lifting bags. If a bag must be lifted while loaded, the entire assembly, lifting attachments, seams and handling procedure require a separately designed and validated lifting specification.
Product selection
Technical guidance for your project
Compare the published grades, then confirm the supplied construction and project requirements in the technical submission.
From specification to site
Fabrication, QA/QC & African project supply
Define the lift
State maximum wet loaded mass, density, lift geometry, attachment arrangement, sling angles, cycles and handling equipment. Dry volume and fabric tensile strength do not establish safe working load.
Validate the complete assembly
Agree the applicable design basis, proof/type-test procedure, acceptance criteria and competent review for the intended product. Seam coupons alone do not validate lifting points or full-bag performance.
Document what was tested
The report should identify the bag model, fabric, thread, seam layout, attachments, load, duration, arrangement, observations and outcome. Describe independent witnessing only where documented.
Supply clear handling instructions
Use model-specific limits and identification for a validated lifting-duty bag. An unrated bag stays on its support until emptied or handled by an approved supporting system. FlowTex does not publish a generic lifting capacity for the range.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Are FlowTex dewatering bags and tubes available from stock?
FlowTex holds stock for immediate supply. Ask for the available grade, dimensions and quantity; allocation is confirmed for the order. Custom dimensions or a different construction require a fabrication programme. Dispatch readiness and delivery time are confirmed separately.
What should I provide for a firm technical quotation?
Send the application, wet volume or flow, solids concentration and measurement basis, particle information, chemistry, filtrate target, dimensions, quantity, destination and required date. Identify any loaded handling requirement.
How is the fabric choice confirmed?
Compare published grade properties with representative slurry trials and the fabricated assembly requirements. The supplied construction, filling limits and handling arrangement are agreed for the actual project.
Discuss your dewatering specification
Send the feed, volume, filtrate target, dimensions, location and programme. We will help define the next step.