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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 41, April 17, 2000
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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for the materials handling professional. The Newsletter is
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Thanks,
Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Your Company's Ad Could Be Here For Only $100
> Gardner Denver Acquires Invincible Airflow Systems
> Portasilo Leads With Safe Sludge Granule Storage
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Ross PreMax Improves Dispersion Quality
> We had over 19,000 Visitors in March!
> Company Manufactures Caseinates for Technical Applications
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
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information you would like to share with our subscribers?
We give full credit to contributing authors.
DEADLINE for the next issue is April 20th.
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article. (Though we do want "action-shots" for our home page!)
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Gardner Denver Acquires Invincible Airflow Systems
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QUINCY, Ill. -- Gardner Denver, Inc. (NYSE: GDI), a leading
manufacturer of blowers and compressors for industrial
applications and pumps for petroleum and industrial markets,
reported its acquisition of the assets of Invincible Airflow
Systems. Invincible, located in Baltic, Ohio, manufactures
single and fabricated multi-stage centrifugal blowers for
industrial portable and central vacuums, process applications,
and welding flux recovery and air knife systems. The company
also provides custom blowers for military applications.
Ross Centanni, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Gardner Denver said, "Invincible is a key niche provider
of continuous duty vacuum systems for industrial cleaning
applications and blowers for OEM industrial and wastewater
treatment applications. The acquisition of this highly-profitable
operation extends our product offering for the industrial
cleaning market, provides new products for air knife applications
and introduces Gardner Denver centrifugal blowers to other
new markets."
For more information contact:
Gardner Denver, Inc.
Blower Division Headquarters
100 Gardner Park
Peachtree City, GA 30269
Telephone: 770-486-5655
Web site: http://www.gardnerdenver.com/
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Portasilo Leads With Safe Sludge Granule Storage
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The latest sewage sludge storage contract to be successfully
completed by Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems, using Portasilo's
unique experience in this market sector, is one for providing
a dried sewage silo for Wessex Water, at Weston-Super-Mare.
This Wessex Water silo was supplied to Swiss Combi Technology,
who provided the sludge drying system. The silo is of 50 m³
capacity, and will store approximately 32 tonnes of dried sewage
sludge.
Due to the nature of the product, the silo has been fitted
with several Portasilo safety features. These include
explosion venting, Carbon Monoxide and temperature monitoring
systems, and a Carbon Dioxide silo inerting package to protect
the installation if heating is detected.
These systems have been specifically designed for the dried
sewage sludge application. They benefit from considerable
Portasilo research, which has been carried out to define
explosion parameters, combustion critical temperatures and
to prove the effectiveness of the inerting systems.
This research provides the basis for a well founded, scientific
approach to storing dried sewage sludge and ensures that all
the necessary control and protection systems are installed.
The Portasilo dried sewage sludge silo discharges the product
on a first in, first out basis to either of two destinations
- a road tanker loading point or a bagging machine. Tankers
are filled at a rate of 40 m3/hour and the bagging machine
at 20 m3/hour. These controlled feed rates have been achieved
by using the patented Portasilo ROTOFLO discharger, which also
prevents bridging of this granular product.
Portasilo has now supplied over 30 sewage sludge silo systems,
establishing itself as market leader in this sector. With over
45 years of experience in the bulk handling industry, Portasilo
is at the forefront of materials handling and storage technology,
to ensure that optimum bulk materials solutions are provided.
For further editorial information contact:
Mr. Chris Mason
Group Information Officer
Fulford Moor House
Fulford Road
York YO10 4EY
Tel: 01904 653040 x 4321
Fax: 01904 611501
mailto:action@portasilo.co.uk
Web site: http://www.portasilo.co.uk/
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Materials Handling Handbook
(McGraw-Hill)"
by David E. Mulcahy (Editor)
Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
"Handbook of Batch Processing
Design"
by P. N. Sharratt (editor)
Hard Cover, First Edition, January 1998
"Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials (5th
Ed.)"
by the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturer's Association
Hardcover, 5th Edition, 1997
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
Thank you for your continued support of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com and for our Reading Room. You can visit the Reading Room at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Joe Column!
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GUEST ARTICLES
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you
solved a difficult materials problem? You too, can be an Ask
Joe! guest author!
Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself (the
old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article
to the Ask Joe! Column.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"Toll Processing, is it for you?"
Guest article by Rick Ritter, Bill Mitchell, Dennis Sarno
& Dan Bopp of Wedco Inc.
You can read Wedco's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
PAST Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
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Ross PreMax Improves Dispersion Quality
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Charles Ross and Son Company now offers a new exciting
alternative to conventional High Speed Dispersers and Media
Mills for Pigment Dispersions.
The PreMax incorporates a specially designed close tolerance
rotor/stator to disperse pigments and provides a big improvement
in pumping capability over traditional high speed dispersers
used as pre-mixers for media mills. The high flow rate
combined with the close tolerance of the rotor/stator,
result in a highly efficient transfer of energy to the
product. The end result is a much faster and better
dispersion with less energy input than with alternative
dispersion technologies.
The PreMax is supplied as a stand alone design with a
hydraulic lift, or it may also be supplied as a component
of either the Ross VersaMix or Dual Shaft Mixer. These two
mixers are available in either fixed tank or change can
designs, and normally include three wing anchor agitators
to provide additional flow when required for higher viscosity
mixtures. These popular mixers are available in vacuum or
atmospheric designs and with jackets to control product
temperature.
For more information contact:
Charles Ross & Son Company
Box 12308
Hauppauge, NY 11788
Telephone within U.S.: 800-243-7677
Telephone international: 631-234-0500
Fax: 631-234-0691
mailto:sales@mixers.com
Web site: http://www.rossmixing.com/
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Company Manufactures Caseinates for Technical Applications
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BURLINGTON, NJ - American Casein Company (AMCO) manufactures
a full line of caseinate protein polymers for use in technical
applications.
Robert E. Ball, Technical Sales Manager of the AMCO Protein
Polymer Group, commented that “The industry has long known
that the casein protein polymer is effective as a functional
ingredient for technical applications because of the
multiplicity of reaction modes that it can perform. Until
recently, however, the preparation of casein protein polymer
solutions proved difficult, leaving many potential users
unable or unwilling to invest in this unique and versatile
polymer.” Ball states that “caseinates eliminate this
difficulty by creating water-soluble casein salts with
differing metal ions attached to the molecule. This promotes
ease of make-down, order of addition flexibility and reduced
usage of alkalies as well as minimal cleanup.” Ammonium,
sodium, calcium and potassium are among the more popular
ions being used in technical applications at American Casein
Company.
“The caseinate protein polymer can react as a hydroxyl source,
an amino source, and a carboxyl source in a variety of
interpenetrating polymer networks. Its amphoteric nature
makes it a preferred co-binder in multiple polymer systems,”
according to Ball.
“The caseinate protein polymer has come of age in the
technical industry for any water-based application, as well
as some solvent-based applications. Industries seeking
materials with ZERO VOC’s which possess this high degree
of crosslinking, density-promoting activity will find the
caseinate protein polymer an excellent addition to their
polymer choices,” according to Ball.
American Casein Company is a privately owned corporation
with more than 40 years’ experience providing protein
polymers to Fortune 500 companies in the technical industry.
The company is based in Burlington, New Jersey.
For more information contact:
Robert E. Ball
American Casein Company
109 Elbow Lane
Burlington, New Jersey 08016-4123
Telephone: 609-387-3130
Fax: 609-387-7204
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
James wants to know the best type of dense phase conveying:
I want to transport cereal flakes, milk powder, the agents
introduce two kind of dense-phase conveying system. One
is positive-pressure pneumatic conveying system,the other
is negative-pressure(vacuum suction). Which one is better?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these two
systems? Which system will less break the shape of the
flakes? And how to calculate the friction factor in the
pipes?
James
mailto:yutaiwan@hotmail.com
Fax: 886-3-3865093
Mr. Martin wants to know why kaolin sweats:
I'm in the need for a link to a scientific explanation
of the phenomenon called "sweating" as it appears during
bulk handling and storage of moist spray dried kaolin
powder.
Regards
Inge Martin
mailto:imartin@forum.dk
Mr. Broeders needs help with new bulk bag technology:
Our company has developed a new system with which bulk
bags can be filled with materials such as sand, gravel,
natural stone and so on. We're planning to introduce
this system on the British market.
Therefore, we want to ask you whether you do have some
information on the most common way in England to fill
these bags. Do the British use a hopper or an excavator??
We would also like to know if the bulk bag is popular
in England and who your main customers are. Maybe you
can give me some other addresses which can be helpful
to us. Other information is also welcome.
Thanks in advance for your help and sorry for the
inconvenience.
Kind regards,
Martijn Broeders
TCA Nooijen
The Netherlands
mailto:mbroeders@hsbos.nl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photograph is of the use metal detectors to identify
metal contamination problems before major damage occurs to
downstream equipment can protect product purity and maintain
the productivity of the processing line. Here, individual
chocolate bars are run through Eriez Magnetics' E-Z Tec® Metal
Detector to protect against contamination. Photo courtesy
Keith Jones of Eriez Magnetics:
Eriez
Magnetics 
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of bulk materials handling
at its best, please email us a jpeg or gif of the photo with
a description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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From the Job Fair
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CONVEYOR MANUFACTURER REPRESENTATIVE
Conveyor manufacturer is expanding its sales representative
network. We offer exclusive territories to qualified
representatives. We design, manufacture and install material
handling equipment such as belt conveyors, feeders, shiploaders,
trippers and stackers. Demar has a full staff of engineers,
designers, architects and project managers capable of delivering
a turnkey system.
Please contact us at:
Mr. Steve Smith
Demar Conveying Systems
6200 Savoy Drive, Suite 800
Houston, Texas 77036
Telephone: 713-963-0930
Fax: 713-963-0838
mailto:steve.smith@demar-engr.com
Web site: http://www.demar-conveyors.com/
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