New Sponsor : BOSS Tank

Jacksonville Beach, FL -- We are pleased to announce that BOSS Tank has become a sponsor of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.

BOSS Tank manufactures bolted and shop-welded industrial storage tanks for dry bulk and liquid storage applications. In dry bulk applications, they specialize in hopper bottom silos, skirted tanks, tanks elevated on structural steel and drive-through skirt designs. They service the plastics, minerals, chemicals and food markets with their dry product line.

Their bolted product line includes a “state of the art” powder coat line, which is “unmatched in the bolted tank industry”, claims Jim Frazier, Plant Project Manager. “We wanted to take the potential of powder coatings to a new level of performance. We have a line rating capacity which is 3 X any other manufacturer. According to our customers, we have set a new benchmark of performance for dry bulk and liquid storage”.

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Boss Tank offers shop-welded tanks with capacities up to 10,000 cubic feet. Bolted hopper tanks are available with capacities up to 100,000 cubic feet of storage. Flat bottom liquid tanks are available in sizes up to 6 million gallons.

See the BOSS Tank's banner ad on our "Silo & Tank Equipment Links" page at http://www.powderandbulk.com/materials/silos&tanks.htm

For more information contact:
BOSS Tank
12057 West Highway 59
Oswego, KS 67356

Telephone: 620-795-2143
Fax: 620-795-2570
Email: http://www.bosstank.com/

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Tom Easterhouse Elected President of CEMA

NAPLES, FL -- Tom Easterhouse, Global Product Manager, Lubriquip, Inc., was elected President of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) at the organization's recent 73rd Annual Meeting in Marco Island, Florida.

Easterhouse becomes head of the North American industry trade group founded in 1933. CEMA currently has 89 member companies.
 

Other officers elected at CEMA's Annual Meeting include:
Vice President - Fred Thimmel, Bryant Products, Inc.
Secretary - Daniel Fannin, Emerson Power Transmission
Treasurer - R. Todd Swinderman, Martin Engineering

Those elected to the Board of Directors were:
Ron Arkema, Van Gorp Corporation
Merle Davis, Automotion, Inc.
Gregg Goodner, Hytrol Conveyor Co., Inc.

and carryover members are:
Ron Doll, Rexnord Industries/Geared Products – Falk
George Huber, Industrial Kinetics, Inc.
Mike Nisenbaum, U.S. Tsubaki Inc.
Dan Gualtieri, Martin Sprocket & Gear, Inc.
Don Hudak, Precision Pulley & Idler
Bill Pugh, Ralphs-Pugh Company
Bill Casey, SI Systems

About CEMA

CEMA's purpose is to promote among its members and the industry standardization of design manufacture of conveying machinery and component parts. Their membership extends to manufacturing companies that manufacture conveying equipment and engineering companies that specify conveying equipment in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Web site: http://www.cemanet.org/

Material Master Powerfill FIBC Filling System

Allegan, MI -- Filling system features the industries’ first horizontal pivoting and rotating bag fill carriage (patent pending). The bag support carriage and fill head lower to a programmed operator height, extend towards the operator, then rotate for “reach-free” bag strap and bag spout connection.

From the “load position”, an operator can safely connect an empty bag while standing on the floor directly in front of the filler unit in approximately 20-30 seconds. The operator is not required to bend down to knee level to connect lower bag straps, reach above head level to make bag connections, or struggle with awkward horizontal bag spout connections methods.

The Power-Lift™ system provides powered fill head height adjustment to accommodate multiple bag and operator heights. The optimum bag fill and ergonomic operator load heights are easily entered into a menu, and recalled, allowing the fill head to automatically travel to the correct operator load height, and the correct bag fill height for each fill cycle.

A bag inflation system quickly removes folds in bags or bag liners for maximum fill volume, while a densification system with scale isolation ensures bag stability.

A Loop-Lok™ system provides positive powered bag strap engagement and release, can be quickly adjusted to suit various bag footprints, and is free of hazardous pinch points found on mechanical latch type release systems.

Material enters the filler through a stainless steel material inlet tube with an inflatable spout seal. Material inlet tube is equipped with a dust extraction port, a clean-in-place system, and an inlet valve with bulk and dribble fill positions.

The scale system features stainless steel load cells, and an Allen-Bradley PLC with PanelView touch screen operator interface for easy operator input and access to system status. Modular unit is custom designed to suit application requirements.

Unit is available with optional check scale, powered in-feed and out-feed conveyors, pallet dispenser, and slip sheet dispenser.

For more information contact:
Material Transfer & Storage, Inc.
1214 Lincoln Road
Allegan, MI 49010
Ph: (800) 836-7068
Fax: (269) 673-4883
Web site:  http://www.materialtransfer.com/

World's Largest Batch Gravimetric Blender

Aston, PA -- A new gravimetric blender that doses pelletized materials into processes running at rates as high as 10,000 lb. (4,500 kg) per hour makes the economic and product-quality advantages of the Maguire ® Weigh Scale Blender available to compounders and resin processors with big-volume operations, it was announced today by Maguire Products, Inc.

Tradenamed MaxiBatch HT (for High-Throughput), the new blender will be introduced at NPE 2006 as a companion to the original MaxiBatch system, which Maguire developed for wood flour and other bulk powder materials. Like the earlier MaxiBatch, the HT model can dispense as many as twelve batch ingredients, and each ingredient hopper has a dispensing device designed for a material in a specific form.

To accommodate pellets while still achieving high throughputs, Maguire has incorporated into the major-ingredient hoppers a "corner valve" that provides a large opening for dispensing pellets into a weigh chamber. The valve achieves dispense rates as high as 11,000 grams per second, according to Peter Skulski, sales manager.

The throughput rating of the MaxiBatch HT blender is double that of the next-largest series of Maguire blenders (the 1800 series), and its batch size of 66 lb. (30 kg) is 67% greater.

"As the world's largest gravimetric or gain-in-weight blender, the MaxiBatch provides many compounders, blown film processors, and manufacturers of packaging and other big-volume products with the first alternative to loss-in-weight systems, which are invariably larger, more complex, and more costly," said Skulski.

In Maguire's gain-in-weight blender, the ingredients for each batch are sequentially dispensed from separate hoppers into a weigh chamber. From there, the batch falls into a mixing chamber, then is metered into the processing machine. In subsequent batches, small corrections are made automatically by the blender controller. Overall batch accuracy is held to within +/- 0.1%, according to Skulski.

"Since the share of operating cost accounted for by raw materials increases with the throughput volume of a processing operation, the high accuracy provided by the MaxiBatch HT blender translates into big savings in raw materials, including expensive additives and colorants," Skulski said.

Maguire Products, Inc., headquartered in Aston, Pennsylvania, is the world's largest supplier of gravimetric blenders and liquid color pumps and also manufactures loading systems, granulators, dryers, auger feeders, and related equipment and software. Its customers include injection, blow, and rotational molders, extrusion processors, and compounders.

Visit web site: http://www.maguire.com/

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Circle Feeder Eliminates Flow Problems LCI Corporation supplied three large Mass Flow Feeders, the Circle Feeder™, for discharging recycled rolled paper trimmings to a synthetic paper manufacturer.

Demolition Company Buys Extec Recyling Equipment
Eastwood Demolition has recently purchased a C-12 jaw crusher, E-7 screen, and 3600 Heavy-Duty C&D Shredder from Extec Screens & Crushers Ltd.

Free ‘Innovations in Pharmaceutical Processing’ Seminar Malvern Instruments is co-sponsoring a free one-day seminar to be held at K-Tron (Switzerland) Ltd, Niederlenz, Switzerland, on Tuesday 25th April 2006.

More headline news...

People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions to others in our open forum.

Mr. Nutting wants to design a chute for sludge:

I have an application where we would like to transfer municipal wastewater treatment facility sludge from a dewatering centrifuge outlet to multiple pump hoppers below using 24" HDPE pipe as a chute.

The sludge will be dewatered to about 25% solids.  Does anyone know the approximate critical chute angle for this type of material?
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Thanks,
Eric Nutting
Gray & Osborne, Inc.
enutting@g-o.com

Mr. Gordon wants to find a high-pressure, diverter valve:

I am trying to track down a supplier for a 100mm diameter, 3-way pipe diverter with a maximum working pressure of 10 bar (150 psi).  I have so far been unable to source such a unit.

It will be used to divert drilling waste from offshore drilling operations.  The waste contains oil and is highly abrasive.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.  (to post reply, click here)

Thanks in advance,
James Gordon
KMC Oiltools
james.gordon@uk.kmcoiltools.com

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Mechanical Product Engineer - Sentry Equipment

Are you interested in variety and technical challenge? Sentry Equipment Corp. is an employee-owned manufacturer of customized sampling products for worldwide power and process industries.

We are seeking a degreed Mechanical Engineer to join our team. Applicants must have experience with hydraulic systems, hydraulic seals applications, machine design, sampling techniques, ASME design validation, and strong computer knowledge of SolidWorks and MS Office. Process industry background is preferred. Responsibilities include design, specification and application of various products; teamwork and excellent communication skills are essential.

Sentry offers competitive salary and complete benefit package, including employee stock ownership plan.

Submit resume and salary history to:
VP Human Resources
Sentry Equipment Corp.
856 East Armour Road
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
Email: HR@sentry-equip.com
Web:  http://www.sentry-equip.com/
Phone: 262-567-7256 x153
Fax: 262-567-4523

Sentry is an equal opportunity employer.

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This week's homepage photo is of Mr. Tom Easterhouse, the president-elect of the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA). Tom is the global Product Manager, Lubriquip, Inc., a leader in centralized lubrication systems.

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