Before the Shipment Leaves: A Day with the TYWH Team

Your production planner could be waiting to hear when their carbide will arrive. Your warehouse supervisor may need to make space for the drums. These could be added to your purchasing manager's list and sent to us via email.

On the factory side, we can give you some insight into what happens before we send an update about the shipment. We've got plenty going on between the production, lab and packing inspectors. Here's what we've been up to recently.

Equipment Upgrade

Recent monitoring showed an upward trend in ferrosilicon content, so the factory upgraded its electromagnet equipment for removing ferrosilicon.

We thought we'd share this because it gives your production colleagues a detail to ask us about. When your purchasing manager is looking at the calcium carbide for their acetylene plant, they will need to ensure the specifications are met. If your production department has specific requirements for ferrosilicon content, please let our sales team know.

This is a good thing to know as it gives you insight into why we've upgraded our equipment. All the usual order prep is happening in the factory.

Production

Our production team at the Wuhai factory in Inner Mongolia starts by crushing and screening the carbide to get it to the correct size. The team works from the requirements agreed for the order. What size do they need? What have we agreed with the customer?

The customer's production team selects material for its acetylene equipment. We need to ensure that this has been communicated to purchasing and our sales team will ensure that the correct requirement has been agreed with the factory. This makes things clear for the production teams.

Lab

Our lab technicians carry out internal sampling inspection on the batch ready for dispatch, including gas yield testing. Customers can review the quality inspection record.

For this inspection, the lab technicians take material from the outgoing batch. The customer's production team can review the record against its requirements and purchasing can put any questions to our quality inspection team.

Although this looks like another document, we wanted to show you what goes on behind the scenes. The lab technicians will be sampling the batch and the production team from the customer will be checking the material.

Packing

Our packing team will pack the carbide into 50 kg or 100 kg steel drums depending on what has been agreed. After electronic weighing, designated packing staff verify the weight. Our packing inspectors will also check the seal of the drums. The drums will also be filled with nitrogen.

Once the drums have been dispatched to the customer's warehouse, our packing team will have completed these tasks. They will have checked the weight of the drum and ensured the seal is correct. We can give an update on how the packing is going.

We'd love to give our packing team more visibility in our updates. They are doing a great job with the order and the drums that the warehouse supervisor receives will have gone through these steps.

If your warehouse supervisor has any requirements for packing or receiving, purchasing can ask our sales contact. This will ensure that the packing team know what they need to do.

The safety officers have their own work to do around the factory. They carry out daily inspections, and safety training takes place every week. That's another part of a day at TYWH that doesn't always appear in an order update. We wanted to mention it here as well, alongside the production and packing work. The customer's purchasing manager may only need the shipping status in an email, but we're glad to have a little more space in the blog to show the jobs behind it.

Order Updates

Our order coordinator follows preparation progress and shipping status. The customer's purchasing manager may need an update for the production planner, the warehouse supervisor or both. Let our order contact know what you need to organise.

There is an entire plant behind the customer's purchasing manager, and a factory behind our sales contact at TYWH. Knowing which department needs the update helps keep the conversation useful. The production planner and warehouse supervisor will have their own tasks to complete.

Global Specialist in Safe Calcium Carbide Supply for Acetylene

That's the core of the TYWH brand.

We wanted to show you how much goes on behind the scenes. The recent equipment upgrade followed a trend picked up in monitoring. Lab technicians inspect the outgoing batch, and packing staff check the drums. These are parts of the work that goes into preparing an order.

Do you have any requirements for ferrosilicon content, gas yield, particle size or packaging? Our sales team would be happy to talk to your purchasing, production or warehouse team before the next shipment leaves.