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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 7, August 16, 1999
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with information for the
materials handling professional. We have 353 subscribers at
the time of this mailing. Unsubscribe instructions are at
the end of this newsletter.
TO SUBSCRIBE: send a blank email to:
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Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the internet.
Please forward this newsletter to one of your friends.
Thanks, Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> "Get Ready for Fall" Clean-up at Powder and Bulk Dot Com
> Bulkflow Technologies acquires Cominco Division
> Win a Gift Worth $50 from Powder and Bulk Dot Com
> Inexpensive Alternative to Plastic Pallets, The Palcon Pallet
> This Weeks Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Ask Joe Column!
> 103,000 Page Hits In July 1999!
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> Revolutionary Fabric Seal for Rotary Equipment
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe & Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Contributors make this newsletter better. Do you have
company news, a new product, a new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
If so please send it to:
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
We give full credit to contributing authors.
Thank you, Joe Taylor, Editor
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"Get Ready for Fall" Clean-up at Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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You may have noticed that we have changed the page layout on
our site. We are going through a full-fledged, clean-up of
Powder and Bulk Dot Com to get ready for September. Why
September? We are expecting more traffic after the August
holidays are over.
Our goals in cleaning up are several:
> Banners. We want to be able to use industry standard banners
on the top of all our web pages. If you didn't know (and we
didn't know this a year ago!) there is a standard banner size,
measured in pixels, it's 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high.
>Reduce load times. Our load times have been reduced by as
much as 20 seconds/page for someone accessing our site on a 28.8k
modem. How did we do it? By eliminating graphics such as the
button bar we used for navigation and putting text links in
their place. Also by reducing image file sizes, specifically
our banner ads.
You can do it too! We found a neat web site to do this called
GIF Wizard. We have been able to cut most of our banner graphics
to half their original size with no loss in appearance! If this
sounds interesting to you, you should check out their web site
for a FREE analysis of your web site graphics at:
http://www.gifwizard.com/pn=49913
An example is one particular banner ad (an animated gif file)
was reduced from a 50 seconds load time to less than 15 seconds,
amazing! And the ad looks great!
>Wider pages. We increase our page with from 650 pixels to
almost 700 pixels. This give you more information in the upper
part of the screen for quicker browsing.
>Better navigation. We now have text links to the major areas
of the site with descriptive text beneath the link. We believe
that this will better guide visitors to the places they want to
go to on the site, specially, first-time visitors.
>Linking graphics. We have added a special page for those of
you who want to add a link from your site to ours. Colorful
Powder and Bulk Dot Com logos are available for free at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/link_to_us.htm
We hope you like the changes. Currently, all the upper level
pages on the site are done and we are working our way through
the +300 directory listing pages. We hope to have it all
completed in a few more weeks, knock on wood!
Let me know what you think about the changes,
Joe Taylor
mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
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Bulkflow Technologies acquires Cominco Division
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I spoke with Denis Piche at the Powders Show this past May and
received from him this past week a formal announcement about
the management buy-out of the BFHE Division from Cominco.
Denis writes:
The Bulk Flow Heat Exchanger Division of Cominco Engineering
Services Ltd. has been acquired by BulkFlow Technologies Ltd.
effective May 1, 1999.
The new owners and management of BulkFlow Technologies Ltd.
consist of the former management team and staff of the Bulk
Flow Heat Exchanger Division. As such, customers will continue
to see the same high standard of quality that they have received
in the past from this division of Cominco Engineering Services Ltd.
Bulkflow Technologies will continue to operate from the current
offices in Calgary, Canada and Winterswijk, The Netherlands.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Denis Piche
mailto:dpiche@bulkflow.com
BulkFlow Technologies Ltd.
Suite 160, 340 Midpark Way S.E.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2X 1P1
Telephone: (403) 254-3500
Fax: (403) 254-3501
mailto:info@bulkflow.com
Web Site: http://www.bulkflow.com
....or in Europe at:
BULKFLOW TECHNOLOGIES EUROPE
Venemansweg 5, 7102 ET
Postbus 87, 7100 AB
Winterswijk, The Netherlands
Telephone: (+31) 543 531861
Fax: (+31) 543 531881
mailto:euroinfo@bulkflow.com
Having done business with Denis in the past, I know that they
offer 'top-flight' equipment and service. If you are looking
for a robust way to cool or heat bulk solids, I strongly
recommend you check out their web site.
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Win a Gift Worth $50 from Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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Do you want a book, CD, toy or electronic item from Amazon.com
(Value: $50 US)? All you have to do is send a copy to of this
newsletter to your friends. If you have the most friends
subcribe to the newsletter before the next weeks issue, you win!
To enter the contest is easy. The rules are simple:
1-Forward this newsletter to your friends, intact.
2-To enter, email us a list of your friends' email addresses.
We will use this list only to verify those who subscribed.
Send your entry to mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
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3-Tell us how we can contact you if you win.
4-You have a choice of prizes:
-A $50 gift certificate from Amazon.com
...or your choice of any item in Amazon's catalog, up to $50 US.
5-The contest is open all members of our newsletter, both International
and those in North America, who are members of the newsletter
as of the date of this newsletter is sent out, 8/11/99.
6-The contest closes at midnight, 8/18/99, US Eastern Standard
Time.
We will announce the winner of the contest in next week's
issue.
Joe Taylor, Editor
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Inexpensive Alternative to Plastic Pallets, The Palcon Pallet
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What is the Palcon Pallet?
The Palcon Pallet was developed for use in the food industry
or any industry that can not risk the possibility of insect
infestation or mold in their product.
Unlike a fumigated pallet, the Palcon Pallet is dip treated.
Dip treating allows the chemical to be absorbed via osmosis
into the core of the wood. This provides protection against
wood boring insects, decay fungi, and mold for the life of the
pallet.
The Palcon Pallet is treated with U.S Borax's Tim-bor(r)
Industrial Wood Preservative. Tim-Bor(r) is an EPA registered
chemical consisting of Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate, which
is highly toxic to fungi and wood boring insects. Tim-Bor(r)
is a safe product, which has low acute oral and dermal toxicity
to animals and humans.
The Palcon Pallet is an inexpensive alternative to plastic pallets,
and is ideal for use in industries that can not tolerate wood
boring insect infestation or mold.
For more information contact:
Mr. Jeff Andrew
Palcon, LLC
P.O. Box 361
Montoursville, PA 17754
Telephone (toll free): 800-838-2023
Fax: 570-435-2189
mailto:jandrew@careypallet.com
Web site: http://www.careypallet.com
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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We have been adding some new books to the book store. Also,
we would like to share with you that a marketing tip we submitted
to Amazon.com has been selected for their September Associates
Newsletter.
Julia King, the business development manager at Amazon, wrote me
saying, "I'll use this 'Tip of the Month' in September's Newsletter
and link to you, if you don't mind, so that people can also have
a look at your nice bookstore."
Amazon has over 300,000 associate bookstores across the Internet
and we appreciate her compliment!
Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Best of Bulk Solids Handling:
Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk and Powder"
Paperback, 1994
"Particle Size Analysis: Classification and Sedimentation Methods"
by Claus Bernhardt and I. C. Bernhardt
Hardcover, September 1994
"Particulate Flows: Processing and Rheology"
by D. A. Drew, D. D. Joseph and S. L. Passman (editors)
Hard Cover, January 1998
I have personally bought books from Amazon.com and have sent them
as gifts. I got great service and low prices with quick delivery.
Also, I want to let you know that Amazon has the new 3Com - Palm V's
in stock, ready-to-ship and they are offering them at a $50 saving
off retail!
The Palm V is something special. It has a sleek design and stylish
anodized aluminum case. You can have thousands, literally thousands,
of names, addresses, phone numbers, appointments, to-do's, plus
hundreds of email messages at your fingertips. The Palm V has an
advanced LCD screen that is razor sharp. And you can recharge the
lithium ion batteries in the HotSync cradle in minutes a day. A full
charge lasts for up to a month.
Simply put, this sleek new Palm V device lets you organize in style.
Check it out at:
http://www.amazon.com/
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!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
Joe Taylor, Editor
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Ask Joe Column!
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This week's article is written by Joe Marinelli and is entitled
"Wall Friction Effects" and goes into the work that Joe does
for people in solving their materials handling problems. It's
a 'good read' so check it out at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
Ask Joe Archive
Many of you have asked to read the past ramblings of Joe
Marinelli and articles from our guest authors. You asked for
it, so here it is, the Ask Joe Archive. Articles are listed
chronologically by the year and month it appeared.
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
Guest Articles
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials
....or have you solved a difficult materials problem?
Share your knowledge with others by contributing an article
to the Ask Joe! Column. We welcome guest articles in the
Ask Joe! Column.
If you have a 400-500 word article and illustrations in the
form of .jpg or .gif files send it to us.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at
his email address,
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
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103,000 Page Hits In July 1999!
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...or call Joe Taylor at 904-280-4656
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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The On-Line Materials Handling Help Forum is one of our
busiest pages. People post their requests for help and offer
their suggestions to others in an open forum.
Mr. François Dubé of Pyro Systems Inc. Canada writes:
We are looking for 4 systems to transfer 32 m³/h of solid
material from atmospheric pressure (100 kPa) to vacuum (10 kPa)
with a minimum number of air leaks for a 24 hour/day,
300 days/year plant operation.
Do you have such technology available ?
François Dubé
Process Engineering
Pyro Systems Inc. Canada
Telephone: 418-652-2298 ext. 2644
Fax: 418-652-2275
mailto:fdube@pyrovac.com
Mr. Tekali of US Gypsum needs a way to feed gypsum:
What is the best way to feed Synthetic gypsum. I am
thinking a clay feeder is there a better way??
Contact me at:
mailto:dtekali@usg.com
Mr. John Stoltzfus needs some used equipment:
We are looking for the following used equipment: 40 cf
stainless steel screw conveyor x 20' long, stainless steel
storage bin approximately 10' diameter x 16' high x 45
degree hopper, v-trough bag conveyor and a bag flattener.
If you have any used equipment for sale let us know.
John Stoltzfus,
JS Machines
Telephone: 717-279-0151
Fax: 717-279-0152
mailto:john@nbn.net
Can you offer your assistance? If so, please feel free to
contact our Forum members directly.
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. You can find
these and other messages at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/default.htm
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Call For Photographs!
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We would like to personally thank Claudia Sears of Geometrica,
Inc. for the great photos she supplied for our home page:
http://www.powderandbulk.com
The two pictures, in the form an animated gif, are of a
Geomertica Freedome(r) that was constructed to contain the
mineral processing area (my guess crushers!) for a copper mine
called Empresa Mineria de Mantos Blancos in Antofagasto, Chile.
The photos are 'before' and 'after' showing how the dome
helped with dust control around that equipment. The dome
was erected with minimal disruption to the operation plant.
(Editor's Note: If you look closely at the 'before' photograph
you can see the framework of the dome being erected while the
plant is operating!)
Thanks for the photos Claudia, mailto:claudia@geometrica.com
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you can visit Geometrica's web site at:
http://www.geometrica.com
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling situation for our home page.
If you have a favorite action shot 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 in
the image tag under the photo! An image tag is the message
that pops up when one passes their mouse pointer over the
image on the web page.
Photographs will be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included. Also, there is talk that we may
archive photographs with full-text description, photo
credit and a hot link to the photograph's owners home page.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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Revolutionary Fabric Seal for Rotary Equipment
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The development of the new fabric seal material for the rotary
equipment industry started with the statement from our material
supplier, "There will be no further shipments of roll material
because the company that we get our fibers from in England
simply vaporized. They shut their doors and went out of business.
Sorry for the inconvenience."
The search started immediately to find a new substitute seal
material that would work in high-temperature rotary equipment
applications. The search was unsuccessful. So we decided to
develop an exclusive material from scratch that would exceed
industry need and requirements.
The result is IGS FabriSeal (TM) that is a 100% non-asbestos
material comprised of para-aramids, meta-aramids, pre-ox silicates,
and other proprietary ingredients. While the material feels soft
and supple, it is highly abrasive-resistant with temperature
application up to 2,000 degrees F. or 1,100 degrees C. The material
can be custom fabricated into seals for both the feed and
discharge end of rotary calciners, coolers, dryers, and kilns.
The seals are easy to install and can be retrofitted to any
rotary equipment. The suppleness of the seal provides a more
neutral or "relaxed" position that accommodates a greater amount
of radial movement or "run-out" of the shell during operation.
Life expectancy of the seal ranges from six months to over one
year. Seal life can be extended by "rough" grinding the shell
prior to installation. "Rough" grinding, using an ordinary
hand-held surface grinder, is simply the removal of the rough
nodules from the shell surface. Current customers state this
quick procedure extends product life by a factor of almost
two.
Some of the benefits of using the seal are: lowers production
and maintenance costs, minimizes "in-leakage" and "out-leakage"
of air, increases fuel efficiency and flame temperature, improves
equipment performance and dust collector efficiency, increases
capacity through improvements in fan life and draft, and reduces
gas volume and velocity thus saving the user money.
The seal can be used in virtually any rotary equipment industry
including aggregate, asphalt, bulk granular materials, cement,
chemical, cosmetic, fertilizer, food and renderings, lime
production and recovery (pulp mills), iron ore pelletizing,
petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and specialty pyroprocessing
to name but a few. The seal is not recommended for use in
sulfuric acid applications as the acid will dissolve the seal
material.
Free samples for evaluation, along with MSDS sheets are available
from the company.
For more information, contact:
John Hulme
IGS, Inc.
200 Country Club Road
P.O. Box 368
Meadow Lands, PA 15347-0368
Telephone(toll free): 800-229-1447
Fax: 724-222-5898
Web site: http://www.igscorp.com
mailto:jhulme@igscorp.com
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From the Job Fair
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The Job Fair is a free service of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
You can post job opening for managers, engineers, sales, reps
or other talented people you need. ...Or one can post their
resume for companies who are looking to add talented people
to their staff.
Do you have a position you need to fill, visit the Job Fair:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/jobs_toc.htm
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Joseph Taylor, Editor
3948 South Third Street, No. 121
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Phone: 904-280-4656, Fax: 904-273-1399
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