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- WAM Puts "The Hammer Down"
on Granular Flow
- Powder and Bulk Dot Com had over 28,000+ visitors in March!
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Hi Everyone,
Well the Powders Show is just around
the corner, the show is May 6th through May 9th, week after
next. Time to get packing if you haven't made plans to
attend. Also, this will be the last Powders Show until 2004!
To get more information about the
show, hotels, travel, etc. take a moment to visit their web site at: http://powdershow.reedexpo.com
Our goal is to provide information to
improve your business by using the resources available on the
Internet.
Free - Solids Flow Consultations at
the Powders Show
Jacksonville
Beach, Florida -- Joseph Marinelli, of “Ask Joe” fame and staff
from Solids Handling Technologies is offering free solids
flow consultations at the Powders Show.
You can visit Joe at Booth No.
15126
Joseph
Marinelli, President of Solids Handling Technologies, Inc. in Fort
Mill, SC is a bulk materials handling expert who has taught more
than 75 highly acclaimed engineering seminars. Since 1972, he has
been active in testing bulk solids and consulting on materials
handling systems design. With Jenike & Johanson, Inc., world
renowned experts on solids handling, Mr. Marinelli received his
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, from
Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Mr. Marinelli has also worked for
manufacturers of solids handling equipment, such as feeders and
silos. This background provides a unique blend of consulting and
manufacturing experience to solve solids flow problems.
He lectures frequently, teaching
courses on solids flow principles and flow property testing, and has
authored several papers and an encyclopedia section on the subject.
Since 1997 he has been involved with very popular seminars at the
University of Wisconsin in the areas of bin and feeder design and
solids flow property testing. He is also a columnist ("Ask
Joe") for the website, www.powderandbulk.com.
Solids Handling Technologies offers
industrial customers complete testing services for bulk materials
and provide reliable bin/feeder design recommendations. To
make an advance reservation, you can email Joe at: Joe@SolidsHandlingTech.com
Free Consultations are sponsored
by Powder and Bulk Dot Com
With over 30,000 visitors per month,
Powder and Bulk Dot Com is the world’s on-line source for
information about the powder and bulk materials handling industry.
From foods to chemicals.
We
Salute Our Sponsors!
Powder and Bulk Dot Sponsors Exhibit at Powders Show
A number of our sponsors will be
exhibiting at the Powders Show, here is a quick rundown of the who,
what and where so you can take a moment to visit their booth and see
their equipment and services. Tell them we sent you...smiles.
Atlantic Coast Crushers
Booth No. 13112 Designers and manufactures of
crushers and lumpbreakers for use in manufacturing industries.
We specialize in machinery that uses impact to break apart chunks,
lumps and agglomerations formed from friable materials.
BHA Group Booth No. 19096
BHA is the world's largest aftermarket supplier of products and
services for APC equipment. With 25 years experience, we've found
solutions for virtually every style of baghouse, electrostatic
precipitator, or EGC system.
Cleveland
Vibrator Company Booth No. 11000
Offering pneumatic and electric industrial vibrators and
custom-engineered and manufactured vibratory equipment. Other
equipment includes vibratory feeders, conveyors, screeners, tables
and packers for light-, medium- and heavy-duty material handling
applications.
Columbian TecTank Booth No. 23042
Leader in bulk-solids & liquid storage products including bolted,
smooth-wall & welded silos and ground storage tanks. Specialty
designs include the Gravi-Merge Blending Silos, for plastics
blending & "drive-through" elevated silos for direct
loading trucks & rail cars.
DMN
Westinghouse
Booth No. 17019
Manufacture of rotary air locks and blowing seals. USDA approved
dairy versions, easy detachable and explosion-proof models
available.
Eriez
Magnetics Booth No. 13077
Eriez offers a broad range of magnetic separators, lifting magnets,
vibratory screens, feeders, metal detectors and magnetic components
to help keep production on schedule.
H.
C. Davis Son Manf. Booth No. 16099
Manufacture of horizontal batch mixers that "stand the test of
time", since 1894. Ribbon and paddle mixers are available in
standard sizes up to 150 cft. Offering heavy-duty construction for
corrosive, acidic or food grade applications.
Kice
Industries Booth No. 13071
"Skilled Air for Industry". Kice offers complete
pneumatic conveying systems and components for transport of
plastics, foods, minerals, pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural
products.
Monitor
Technologies Booth No. 17089
Monitor offers several quality instruments for point level and
continuous level indication. Available sensors include rotary
paddles, RF Capacitance probes, diaphragm switches, ultrasonic
sensors, and cable-based "smart" sensors.
Poly
Hi Solidur Booth No. 16096
Poly Hi Solidur's TIVAR® 88 and QuickSilver® linings for chutes,
bins, bunkers, dump bodies, railcars, etc., are recognized worldwide
for their low coefficient of friction and high abrasion and
corrosion resistance.
Salina
Vortex
Booth No. 49014
Slide gates and diverter valves for handling dry-bulk material in
gravity-flow and dilute-phase pneumatic conveying. Products
include aggregate gates, dry-mixer gates, diverter valves, flex-tube
diverters, line diverters and multi-port diverters.
Thermo
MeasureTech Booth No. 16017
A world leader in level, density and flow measurement utilizing five
different technologies: laser, nuclear, ultrasonic, radar and point
capacitance devices.
Triple/S
Dynamics Booth No. 13053
Manufacture of the Slipstick Conveyor is the most efficient and
reliable conveyor in the industry. We also manufacture
aspirators, air-gravity tables, granulators and screening equipment.
Print out this part of the newsletter
and save it for the show. We will see you there! Joe
Taylor - Editor
The
Reading Room
Top Picks at Amazon.com
.
"...offers a review of
feeders, both volumetric and gravimetric, currently applied in
plastics compounding and extrusion."
"Covers
the properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform
granular materials. Discusses mixing and segregation of
heterogeneous materials..."
We Need Your Guest Articles!
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you solved a difficult materials problem? Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself
by contributing an article to the Ask Joe! Column. For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli
at: Joe@SolidsHandlingTech.com
Guaranteed
for 150,000 Blows
WAM Puts "The Hammer Down"
on Granular Flow
WAM
Engineering Ltd manufactures and supplies a solution to all your
powder or granular problems. The PICJET combined hammer blast is
either pneumatically or electro pneumatically actuated, and it
develops three simultaneous actions:
Instantaneous hammering
Extended vibration
Intermittent air shot along the
silo wall
The combined effect of these three
actions resolves globally and radically all mass flow problems.
Powder and Bulk Dot Com
had lots of visitors in March
A
record-breaking, 28,000+ professionals visited
our web site last month!
That's over 1,300+ people per business
day! They are looking for equipment and services
you offer! Banner advertising is a great way
to make your company stand out and reach these savvy material handling pro's.
Want a Rate Card? It's Easy! Click here to visit our Banner
Ad Rate information page.
New Facility Will Enhance
Mallinckrodt's Production of Custom Pharmaceutical Intermediates and
Bulk Actives
LONG BEACH, Calif., April 19
/PRNewswire/ -- Earth Tech was awarded a $1.7 million contract to
provide engineering design services for a new pharmaceuticals
manufacturing plant for Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis-based medical
products manufacturer.
The new 20,000 square foot facility,
called Building 270, will provide increased capacity for the
production of active pharmaceutical intermediate products.
Construction will start at the site in July and it is expected to be
complete and in production by November 2003.
"Earth Tech has extensive
knowledge and experience in designing and building facilities for
pharmaceutical companies, having completed similar work for
companies like Pharmacia and Pfizer," said Diane C. Creel,
president of Earth Tech. "Our strong understanding of process
equipment and instrumentation and controls used in the chemical
synthesis of bulk active compounds will be a significant asset in
the design on Building 270."
Earth Tech's engineering design
services for Building 270 include architectural design; chemical
process engineering; instrumentation design; civil engineering;
structural engineering; electrical engineering; mechanical
engineering design; utility design, including heating, ventilation,
air conditioning, plumbing and fire protection; and program
management.
Mallinckrodt is a global manufacturer
and marketer of specialty medical products designed to sustain
breathing, diagnose disease, and relieve pain. The company does
business in more than 100 countries and operates respiratory,
imaging and pharmaceuticals product groups.
Earth Tech provides design,
engineering and construction services to pharmaceutical and
healthcare companies around the world. Earth Tech offers
design/build; mechanical, civil/structural and electrical
engineering; facility master planning; environmental compliance;
construction and program management; commissioning; control strategy
development; control system design, programming, upgrades and
modifications; system evaluation and selection; control room layout
and design; data acquisition; and startup services.
About Earth Tech
Founded in 1970, Earth Tech ( http://www.earthtech.com/
) is an international provider of global water management and
transportation, engineering and environmental services. Earth Tech
is headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and employs more than 9,000
people in nearly 200 offices worldwide.
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. DeJong needs a way to
unload bags:
I'm looking for a debagger system for
both; a semi powder polymer and a semi stiff polymer. Both are in
20KG capacity paper bags that get dumped into a grinder and then
blended. The semi powder pours out of the bags and the other
comes out like a pillow (the bag shape). Polymer leaves a sticky
residue over repeated dumping.
Am trying to relieve the
ergonomic/physical strain from operators that pull bag off of skid
and then manually cut bags and dump product. Very high degree of
repetitive movement and time consuming.
(Click
here to post a reply)
I am looking for macroporous
resin-bead filling machine. Its a strong acid cation resin - it
holds some amount of moisture. I am looking for an easy way to fill
a consistent amount of resin in cartridges
(Click
here to post a reply)
Share your expertise with others in the Help
Forum.
Photos
Wanted
Call For Photographs!
This
week's homepage photo is a Canadian concrete batch plant build by
Sandwell Engineering. This new plant is capable of producing up to
180 m3/h. The plant consists of four underground aggregate hoppers,
a heater building, reclaim tunnel and conveyor, aboveground
specialty hopper and batching plant.
Photo courtesy of Mr.
Alan Pyatt of Sandwell Engineering
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials
process, packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home
page. Send your photograph and description to: news@powderandbulk.com
Jobs
From the Job Fair
Sales Manager
Wanted - USA and Canada
The Sales Manager
will be the interface between the Magaldi Group and its clients and
partners in the USA and Canada, and lead the sales and commercial
support activities of the Magaldi Group. The sales manager will be
managing market planning, sales promotions and customer interactions
and shall set strategy for reaching new markets for the Magaldi
Group’s products.
Responsibilities
include:
Providing the
requisite liaison between clients and the Magaldi Group offices
and their sales partners for technical & commercial
activities
Cultivating and
maintaining customer relationships with existing clients and
partners, and developing new opportunities and clients
Leading a
technical office to prepare proposals, basic design and system
layout drawings, then presenting and selling proposals to
prospective / existing clients
Providing
technical and commercial service assistance to existing clients
Investigating
local competitors and developing sales strategy to acquire
customers over them
Qualifications /
Requirements :
Engineering degree
required
Experience in
Marketing & Sales
Demonstrated
customer interface skills
Excellent teamwork
and communication skills including listening skills
Demonstrated
written & oral presentation skills
Strong work ethic
and ability to work independently
General PC, MS
Office proficiency, CAD experience a plus
Substantial travel
to meet clients and partners
The Magaldi Group’s
headquarters and workshop are in Salerno, Italy, with a USA branch
office in Cleveland, OH. In the USA, the Magaldi Group works in
close association with Alstom Power, Inc. Customer Service Division
and Brunswick Industrial, Inc.
For more information
please contact: Magaldi Group
Via Irno 219 84135
Salerno, Italy
Telephone: 0039-089-489111
Fax: 0039-089-274431
E-mail: mac@magaldi.com Web site: http://www.magaldi.com/
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Joseph
Marinelli, President of Solids Handling Technologies, Inc. in Fort
Mill, SC is a bulk materials handling expert who has taught more
than 75 highly acclaimed engineering seminars. Since 1972, he has
been active in testing bulk solids and consulting on materials
handling systems design. With Jenike & Johanson, Inc., world
renowned experts on solids handling, Mr. Marinelli received his
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, from
Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
"Covers
the properties of flow, friction, and fluidization of uniform
granular materials. Discusses mixing and segregation of
heterogeneous materials..."
"...the
bible for powder technology researchers"
