Morgan Named President of Farr Air Pollution Control

Jonesboro, AR -- Lee Morgan has been named president of Farr Air Pollution Control (APC), a leading manufacturer of dust collection equipment for IAQ control and product recovery. In the newly created post, Morgan will oversee all activities of the Farr APC operating unit, which has been consolidated and expanded to include all of North America.

Morgan joined Farr in 1997 and has held a variety of management posts in the company’s air pollution control business unit. His 15 years of experience in the dust collection industry spans virtually every aspect of applications, equipment design and development, marketing, sales and customer service. He is chairman of ASHRAE Technical Committee 5.4 (Industrial Process Air Cleaning), which is working on developing a standard for stating dust collector performance.

Farr APC is a member of Camfil Farr, the largest air filter manufacturer in the world. In addition to implementing sales programs throughout North America, Farr APC will also utilize the Camfil Farr organization to sell its innovative Gold Series® cartridge collectors and HemiPleat™ filters worldwide.

For information, contact:
Farr Air Pollution Control
3505 S. Airport Road
Jonesboro, AR 72401
Telephone (800) 479-6801
Fax (800) 222-6891
Web site: http://www.farrapc.com/

Wyssmont's New Dryer/Calciner Produces Pure Oxides

Fort Lee, NJ -- The Turbo-Dryer® is being very successfully used to continuously dry and calcine a metal compound to produce the extremely pure oxide. The Turbo-Dryer was selected after extensive testing of different types of dryers.

The Turbo-Dryer’s ability to provide a controlled retention time to produce a high quality product was an important factor in the selection process.

This unit is shipped shop-assembled with drives attached on an integral base frame with insulated housing.

The Turbo-Dryer is a proprietary continuous tray dryer design that consists of a stack of rotating circular trays in a sealed enclosure. Material is fed onto the top tray, leveled, and after one revolution is wiped onto the next lower tray where the operation is repeated. Fans circulate heated air in the enclosure to provide the drying medium.

About Wyssmont Company

Wyssmont Company designs, manufactures and services its high quality, reliable Turbo-Dryer worldwide to the chemical, specialty chemical, pharmaceutical, mineral, food and food additive industries.

For more information contact:
Wyssmont Company, Inc.
1470 Bergen Boulevard
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone: 201-947-4600
Fax: 201-947-0324
Email: sales@wyssmont.com
Website: http://www.wyssmont.com/

Eriez' New "Sight Glass" Magnets

Erie, PA -- Eriez is pleased to introduce its first magnet designed exclusively for the plastics industry, the new Super Strength Rare Earth Permanent Sight Glass Magnet. This powerful magnet removes tramp metal contamination from plastic resin and pellets as it passes through a site glass loader on its way to a molding machine.

Eriez’ Rare Earth magnet circuit utilizes the strongest magnet material available to remove more fine iron contamination and reduce product wash-off.

These advanced magnets feature continuously welded construction, and four sizes are available to fit most site glass loaders. Customers can choose between two different magnet diameters, 1-inch or 5/8-inch (25.4 mm or 15.9 mm).

"Eriez’ new Permanent Sight Glass Magnets are stronger, less expensive and match (dimensionally) the current industry standard," said Dave Heubel, Eriez’ Market Manager for the Sanitary Industries.

Eriez is recognized as world authority in advanced technology for magnetic, vibratory and metal detection applications. The company’s magnetic lift and separation, metal detection, materials feeding, screening, conveying and controlling equipment have application in the process, metalworking, packaging, recycling, mining, aggregate and textile industries.

For online visitors, download product detail at www.eriez.com

Briquetters Installed in Lumber Mills

Vancouver, BC -- Briquetting Systems and C.F. Nielsen A/S have installed two BP6000 briquetters into BSL hardwood flooring in Quebec. Capacity of this plant is approximately 10,000 tons per year. BSL is marketing the cardboard packaged firelogs in 6 and 12 quantities through major retail centers.

Another Nielsen briquetting system will be installed this spring in Muscannell millworks in Colorado USA where hardwood shavings will be briquetted for commercial fuels as well as consumer firelogs.

The firelogs are 3 inch square x section and take up little space in handling. Calorific value of the firelogs is higher than traditional wood logs and have no chemical binders and additives. A short puck version of the log can also be made with the same equipment for the barbecue markets. In regard to commercial fuels a puck shape can be continuously produced which has similar size as conventional hog fuels. Wood fines and dust which are difficult to burn in boilers with traditional hog fuels can now be burned efficiently in briquet format.

This will be of interest to plywood sander mills operations as well as MDF and HDF flooring producers. Masonite and cardboard residue from door manufacturers have been turned into high value industrial fuels. OSB plants producing fines can now burn this residue with their hogfuels. Bark residue has been successfully briquetted for use as a high density fuel.  Density of the briquets is in the 40 pound per cubic foot range reducing handling and trucking costs while maximizing heat values. Most dry wood and biogass type fuels can be briquetted.

Less costly to set up and maintain than a comparable sized pellet plant the briquetters allow production of a varied range of products and market applications. Nielsen A/S and Briquetting Systems Inc. is presently conducting tests for several of the major local Canadian lumber producers as well as those located in the US markets.

Further information visit: http://www.briquettingsystems.com/

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DMN have been designing and manufacturing rotary airlocks, diverter valves and other related components for the bulk solids handling industry for more than 30 years. Offering tailor made solutions for chemical, food, plastics and pharmaceutical industries, DMN products are distributed world-wide.

Besides an extensive range of standard versions, we supply components that are conforming to USDA requirements, pressure shock resistant to 10 bar, flame proof, ATEX compliant to Directive 94/9/EC, etc.

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DMN-INC
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