While electronic load monitoring systems have helped to reduce conveyor malfunctions, unplanned and costly conveyor downtime is still an issue that plant engineers have to contend with on a regular basis.
“Of course load monitoring systems are a useful safety feature but they should not be seen as a panacea for conveyor breakdown issues alone,” says Peter Church, managing director of FB Chain Ltd – one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of leaf chain, anchor bolts and chain sprockets to the materials handling industry.
The Glen Creston Swing Hammer mill range is designed for light/medium duty crushing of a broad range of materials in batch, in-line and recycling applications. Available in cast iron/carbon, steel and stainless steel with a blower discharge option, this versatile mill is a cost effective solution for process engineers.
Coperion has set itself the strategic aim of strengthening its position in the market for complete turnkey compounding plants for the plastics industry. By offering these complete solutions Coperion implements compounding plants in the shortest time possible on a fixed cost basis. The customer has only one supplier and only one contact person from start to finish, from the initial planning and design stage through to the engineering and the production of the individual units and the final commissioning of the installation.
Coperion Corporation, USA has enhanced its test lab in Ramsey, NJ facility, with a twin screw extruder of the new ZSK Mc18 series. The ZSK with 32 mm screw diameter stands out for its specific torque of 18 Nm/cm3 and gives customers running trials the possibility to fully exploit the high productivity of the ZSK Mc18 series. The ZSK 32 Mc18 is supported with state-of-the-art processing equipment. Depending on the application of the trial the Feed Enhancement Technology (FET), ZS-EG twin screw side devolatilization units, and first-class metering, pelletizing, and control equipment can be installed.
A new Dual Bulk Bag Filling System from Flexicon integrates two Swing-Down® Bulk Bag Fillers with a Flexicon Pallet Dispenser and Powered Roller Conveyors, allowing safe, high capacity filling of bulk bags of all popular sizes. Programmable controls allow the fillers to operate separately or simultaneously, filling bags of the same size or two different sizes.
Kistler Sensors Inc. has further expanded its vision of “data anywhere, anytime” for operators, owners, and managers of silo and tank facilities by releasing its Android-based remote control and monitoring application, Kistler Connexion.™ The application communicates with the electronics in the Kistler SOLO™ weight and level measurement solution for bulk material storage and inventory control, and displays readings on Android-based smartphones.
Roquette, one of the leading companies in the starch industry, which manufactures a wide range of starch products for use in hundreds of applications from the food sector to the pharmaceutical industry and animal feed business has taken delivery of a ‘Super Silo’ to complete a £15 million investment programme.
1 day seminar, 14 June 2012 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology are proud to co-sponsor the IMechE Seminar on Bulk Handling in the Waste, Recycling and Biomass Industries. The waste processing and recycling industries are a major growth area around the world. However there are special challenges involved due to the nature of the materials; variable, poorly flowing, low density, and the tendency to self-heat, amongst others. To highlight these challenges, Professor Mike Bradley, Director of the Centre, will be presenting “Getting it moving”: Flow problems and solutions for waste and biomass materials
Powder and granular materials are used in the manufacture of almost all goods; yet the technology by which to obtain reliable and efficient storage or handling of these materials is seldom focused on until major issues arise. This is because bulk solids handling is not a recognised academic “discipline” and hence very little background knowledge can be called upon with companies to identify the fundamental causes of problems in this area of operations. Due to the lack of this discipline in most engineering courses, people dealing with particulates need to access quality post-experience teaching on the matter.
UPM Conveyors have developed a new version of their Rotary Table (Lazy Susan) to operate as an integrated part of a product handling system or to act as a stand alone unit to act as a buffer when required for accumulating and unloading product but to also ensure total evacuation and as standard incorporating variable speed control for £1600.00 which UPM claim is the most competitive price in the market.
Simplified charging and discharging of big bags ensuring high containment - OEB 4 Safe and efficient filling and emptying of big bags is a big challenge for many users. Dec offers now the ideal transfer solution.
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