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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 3, No. 90, April 9, 2001
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2001, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Would You Have a Trade Show Exhibit With No Salesmen?
> GEA Introduces New Evaporation Technology Company
> Design and Maintenance of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks
> Top Picks at Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Satake Launch The New PLSB Series 2000 Laboratory Sifter
> Powder and Bulk Dot Com had over 22,000+ visitors in March!
> SWF Companies Acquires Tisma Machinery Corporation
> 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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GEA Introduces New Evaporation Technology Company
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Columbia, MD - GEA Evaporation Technologies announces its
formation as a new company dedicated to supplying evaporation,
distillation, rectification, and crystallization process
technology and systems to the North American market. The
company is headquartered in Columbia, MD, USA.
The new company will serve a variety of industries, including
chemicals, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, dairy and
beverage, and environmental. In order to provide expertise in
these disparate markets, GEA has combined the expertise of
four existing subsidiaries, each a world-leading supplier in
its respective area of application and technology:
-Niro Inc., Columbia, Maryland, USA - specializing in sanitary,
multi-effect evaporators for the dairy industry; including
thermal vapor recompression, mechanical vapor recompression,
and compact evaporators.
-GEA Wiegand, Ettlingen, Germany - distillation, rectification,
and evaporation of beverages, carbohydrates, alcohol, organic
and inorganic solutions, and effluent.
-GEA Kestner, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France - climbing film,
falling film, flash, and forced circulation evaporators and
crystallizers with expertise in acids and specialty chemicals
and solutions.
-GEA Canzler, Düren, Germany - thin film, short path, falling
film, and column distillation and extraction plants and evaporators,
specializing in pharmaceutical and healthcare applications.
Evaporation is an old and established discipline, but proper
design, engineering, and equipment for each application demands
specialized knowledge. With application knowledge, testing and
fabrication facilities, process integration, spare parts, and
local service, GEA Evaporation Technologies supplies total
solutions to the evaporator market.
"Until now some GEA companies have had experience with food
products, some with chemical products, some with effluents.
But no single company has been able to display such diversity
in both techniques and process application knowledge as we have
been able to assemble in GEA Evaporation Technologies," said
Steven Kaplan, President, Niro Inc.
Mr. Eric Bryars has been named President of GEA Evaporation
Technologies. He has been with GEA Niro for the past 15 years,
serving in Columbia, Maryland and Singapore, most recently as
managing director of Niro's operations in China and Southeast
Asia.
"Backed by Niro's other business groups, GEA Evaporation
Technologies is already successful and well consolidated in
serving the North American food and dairy industries. The
addition of technology from the European companies will provide
an excellent basis for further market extensions into the
chemical, beverage, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries,
as well as environmental applications," said Bryars.
GEA Evaporation Technologies supplies evaporation, distillation,
rectification, and crystallization process technology and
systems to the North American market. The company has expertise
in the design, engineering, fabrication, and testing of
systems for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food,
dairy, and beverage industries, as well as environmental
applications.
http://www.niroinc.com/html/news/nr033101.html
For further information contact:
Mr. Eric Bryars
GEA Evaporation Technologies
Telephone: 1-410-992-7400
Web site: http://www.niroinc.com/
mailto:eric.bryars@evaptec.com
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Design and Maintenance of Aboveground Atmospheric Storage Tanks
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22-24 May 2001 in Thessaloniki, Greece
Vincent Carucci of Carmagen Engineering will present a course
on the Design and Maintenance of Aboveground Atmospheric
Storage Tanks on 22-24 May 2001 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The
Companies' Association Accredited Centre for Vocational Training
(KEK IVEPE) and The Center for Professional Advancement are
sponsoring the course.
Greek Contact Information:
For additional information, telephone Nicholaos Stolakis at KEK
IVEPE at 0030-31-797708 or E-Mail him at mailto:ivepeth@hol.gr.
IVEPE's web site is at http://www.ivepe.gr/ The course is
comparable to Carmagen's Course Number 607, an outline of which
is posted on Carmagen's web site.
Hope to see you in Thessaloniki!
For more information contact:
Vincent Carucci
Carmagen Engineering, Inc.
4 West Main Street
Rockaway, NJ 07866
Telephone: 973-627-4455
Fax: 973-627-3133
Visit our web site at http://www.carmagen.com/
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Top Picks at Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Solid-Liquid Filtration and Separation Technology"
by A. Rushton, A. S. Ward, R. G. Holdich
Paperback, 539 pages, May 1996
"Fluidization, Solids Handling, and Processing:
Industrial Applications" (Particle Technology Series)
by Wen-Ching Yang (Editor)
Hardcover, 900 pages, March 1999
"Principles of Flow in Disperse Systems" (Powder Technology)
by O. Molerus
Hardcover, 299 pages, January,1993
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Ask Joe Column!
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THIS MONTH'S ARTICLE
"Silo Damaged by Plastic Powder - A Case Study"
Guest article by David Stuart-Dick
Powder Engineering Systems.
You can read David's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
PAST Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
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For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
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Satake Launch The New PLSB Series 2000 Laboratory Sifter
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A comprehensive update of the 'industry standard' Simon
Laboratory Sifter, the PLSB incorporates a new drive system,
electronics, anti-vibration mountings and completely enclosed
body.
The unique planetary action of the sifter oscillates the sieve
table without tapping, in a motion similar to that of sifters
used in the cereal milling industry. This allows the Process
Control Engineer to accurately predict the separations made in
the mill and the Quality Department to monitor the consistency
of the flour being produced.
The Laboratory Sifter has uses in other industries including
chemical grinding, carbon black milling and seed analysis.
The sieve table has been specially designed to allow square
wooden sieves and brass round sieves to be used on the same
machine and is supplied with a set of either five brass or five
wooden sieves covered to the required specification.
When supplied with five 200mm diameter brass sieves to ISO3310
and BS410, the sifter meets the requirements of Campden &
Chorleywood Food Research Association (CCFRA) standards for
laboratory sifting, in accordance with FTWG method 0011a. For
CCFRA test purposes the sieves supplied are normally 1.7 and
1.0mm and 710, 500 and 200 micron mesh.
The company's web site at www.satake.co.uk provides comprehensive
product details and information about Satake's unique milling
processes.
For more information contact:
Mr. Roger N Cook
Satake Corporation UK Division
Tel: +44 (0)161 406 3800
Fax: +44 (0)161 406 3801
Web site: http://www.satake.co.uk
mailto:rnc@satake.co.uk
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SWF Companies Acquires Tisma Machinery Corporation
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REEDLEY, Calif., April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- SWF Companies, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV)
announced today the acquisition of Tisma Machinery Corporation
of Elk Grove Village, IL.
SWF is a market leading designer and manufacturer of automated
packaging machinery used in the forming, packing and sealing
of corrugated packages for major multinational customers worldwide.
Tisma is a leading provider of cartoning machinery, with special
emphasis on high-speed, complex applications for the food,
cosmetics and pharmaceutical markets.
Marcus Shiveley, President of SWF Companies, stated "The
acquisition of Tisma continues the expansion of our capability
to provide a single source for fully integrated packaging
solutions desired by our customers. Tisma's highly engineered
cartoning solutions are well known and respected worldwide, and
its Chicago based operations will further enable rapid aftermarket
support for all SWF products long-term."
Bob Murtagh, President of Tisma Machinery Corporation, added
"We share SWF's customer-focused strategic vision for the 'next
generation' of packaging machinery companies. SWF's continued
commitment to our long standing investment in product innovation
and our brand were a large influence on our decision to join
Team SWF. We are convinced that both of our customer bases
will benefit from this combination of products and technologies."
For more information on SWF Companies, please visit their
web site at:
http://www.swfcompanies.com/
SOURCE Dover Corporation
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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.
Mr. Borah looking for valve-type bagging equipment:
We are looking for the contact details of the following vendors
for valve-type bagging machines;
- SSR Valves
- Clide Richard Simon
- Nagasaki.
Please respond to,
D K Borah
Al Khaleej Sugar
Fax +971-4-2956677
Web site: http://www.aksugar.co.ae/
mailto:borah@aksugar.co.ae
Mr. Leake has problems with hydrate lime discharge:
We are currently having discharge problems with hydrated
lime from a small hopper.
The hopper was designed and has been operated successfully
with hydrated lime. However, our supply of hydrated lime
has changed and appears to have a higher moisture content.
This lime is resulting in a 'rathole' occurring in the
hopper. The hopper is an inverted pyramid (~ 3 cubic
metres volume with wall angles of 60 degrees). At the
base of the hopper is a small 5 screw volumetric feeder
with a 400 mm x 400 mm opening. The 'rathole' is
approximately 400 mm x 400 mm and allows you to look
straight down the volumetric feeder. Its dimensions exactly
mimicking the opening of the volumetric feeder.
At this stage we are looking at installing flow aids to
over come the ‘rathole’ problem. However, after speaking
to a few vendors of these products we are still unsure
of what type of flow aid would be the most cost effective
and still work. Everyone wants to recommend their own
product but no-one will give a guarantee that their product
will solve the material flow problem.
The lime cannot be changed to a new supplier as we are
on a reasonably remote mine site and we are stuck with
whatever we get.
Is there any information published or rules of thumb to
indicate when or when not certain types of flow aids
(eg. vibrators, hammers, air fluidize etc.) should be
used for particular types of materials.
Michael Leake
Earth Systems
Telephone: +61 3 9205 9515
mailto:michael.leake@earthsystems.com.au
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of Columbia Machine's HL8000 palletizer
with its special high-mainframe design ensures optimal use of
transportation space, with the ability to stack 135" high
loads to fill up 140" height capacity vans and railcars.
The HL8000 palletizer is equipped with slip-sheet, tie-sheet
and cap sheet feeders, plus pallet dispenser and stretch wrap
machine to accommodate a variety of load configurations.
Photo courtesy of M'Lyss Maygra, Columbia Machine, Inc.
Web site: http://www.palletizing.com/
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
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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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APPLICATIONS ENGINEER - DUST COLLECTION
Applications Engineer with 5+ years experience in Random
Pulse Jet technology needed.
Requirements as listed above plus an ability to aggressively
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President
SourceWynds Executive Search
833 Chelsea Park Drive
Marietta, GA 30068
Telephone: 770.973.2520
Fax: 770.973.4795
Web site: http://www.sourcewynds.com/
mailto:wynr1@aol.com
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