You may have a BIG need for a Firelake Model P60 incinerator. The P60 is an autoloading design that offers many features to accommodate regulations and operating preferences. Large in size it often is sized for hospitals, bulk mass disposal, or as a central disposal site for remote clinics. Designed in modules the P60 offers many burner and Continue Reading
How Do You Process Cremation Remains to Fine Ash?
The way remains gets processed varies greatly. Some operators simply return the remains of ash and bone as it exists after the cremation. This is an irregular mix of shapes, colors, and sizes. Other operators reduce and mix the remains to a more consistent uniformity. How is that done? Iron mallets and metal pails, rollers, and heavy Continue Reading
County Animal Control Uses Firelake Cremator
The management at Perry County decided upon a Firelake cremator for their daily cremation and disposal needs. This unit is seeing its 20th year of use, a confirmation that Firelake designs and builds quality. Considering a unit for your business? Do you want Firelake value OR immediate cost savings offered by low quality poorly designed Continue Reading
Red Bags to Ashes
What does Firelake do with red bag waste? The results are typical for the before and after photos. All Firelake cremators and incinerators routinely produce these results. After your wastes have been exposed to temperatures of 2000F (1100C) the remains are gray and white ash along mixed with charred metal fragments and melted glass. The Continue Reading
Data System Eases Cremator Operator Decisions
An improved method was needed to record operation at a Firelake cremator used by AHS (an SPCA in northern New Jersey). The concern was alleviated by fitting the cremator with computer communication technology. A critical operating requirement for the AHS state operating permit is recording data for each batch loaded. Accuracy is the priority. Continue Reading
Firelake Model 600X Incinerator to Medical Marijuana Site
A Model 600X incinerator is being packaged for shipment at Firelake Manufacturing fabrication plant. The A600X is to be used at a medical marijuana production site in Canada. The features that make this X series of incinerators popular include temperature control and fuel management during the operation of the burn cycle. The X models are a hybrid Continue Reading
Value in Incineration Options
Receiving your incinerator or cremator as close to complete is a value, a real cost saver compared to build time spent on the job site with contractors. A factory Gas Train is an example. The Gas Train is a sure time saver, is factory tested, eliminates questions, prevents decisions that may have led to low gas flow or low pressures. These Continue Reading
Incinerator, Cremator, Thermal Oxidizer?
What is the difference? Which one meets your need? The meanings are about the same. Often culture or the situation dictates that one term may be more accepted or recognized than the other terms. Incinerators are often thought of as devices that destroy waste materials and convert them into a disposable ash. Cremators are often thought of Continue Reading
Avian Influenza (aka AI) breaks out in UK
Already present in North America, the United Kingdom is to take much more decisive action against avian influenza outbreaks. Tests on the affected farm in the UK revealed that the AI involved was the same H5N8 strain involved in out-breaks in Germany and the Netherlands. Containing the problem is accomplished by on the farm incineration. Continue Reading
Do You Know How to Select an Incinerator?
What is your goal with an incinerator? When you select an incinerator, are you looking to have a quality, or to pay the least cost for a machine that makes you ask "why did I buy that" a year later? There are options, features, and regulatory influences in making that purchasing decision for any incineration or cremation equipment. Being in the Continue Reading